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The Grenfell Action Group (GAG) ran a blog in which it highlighted major safety problems, criticising the council and KCTMO for neglecting fire safety and building maintenance. In 2013, the group published a 2012 fire risk assessment by a KCTMO Health and Safety Officer which recorded safety concerns.
Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England. The tower was completed in 1974 as part of the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate . [ 1 ] Most of the tower was destroyed in a severe fire on 14 June 2017 .
A 2013 blog post by Grenfell Action Group stated, "There is barely adequate room to manoeuvre for fire engines responding to emergency calls, and any obstruction of this emergency access zone could have lethal consequences in the event of a serious fire or similar emergency in Grenfell Tower or the adjacent blocks."
The Grenfell disaster in Kensington killed dozens of residents when the building's plastic-filled exterior panels turned a small fire in one apartment into an inferno that consumed the 24-storey ...
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The Grenfell Action Group posting a message on its website that highlighted their earlier warnings: Regular readers of this blog will know that we have posted numerous warnings in recent years about the very poor fire safety standards at Grenfell Tower and elsewhere in RBKC.
Danny Friedman QC gave presentations to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry relating to Khadija Khalloufi, who died in the fire aged 52.
The United Kingdom cladding crisis, also known as the cladding scandal, is an ongoing social crisis that followed the Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June 2017 and the Bolton Cube fire of 15 November 2019.