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The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on ...
An inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 people says U.S. company Arconic hid the dangers of its ... and that while no single cause could be blamed for the disaster, a ...
Floral tribute with candles for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire outside Notting Hill Methodist Church on 16 June 2017. The fire caused 72 deaths, including one who died in the hospital a day later and another who died in January 2018. [108] [109] [110] The latter occurred after an official death toll was announced by police in November ...
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The fact-finding inquiry began soon after the fire at Grenfell Tower, which broke out in the early morning hours of June 14, 2017, and quickly engulfed the 25-story public housing block. The inquiry received testimony from more than 1,500 witnesses and reviewed some 300,000 documents before delivering its final report.
The blaze that killed 72 people in Grenfell Tower in London was caused by “decades of failure” by the UK government and the construction industry that allowed the 24-storey building to be ...
The fire also severely affected three low-rise "finger blocks" adjoining Grenfell Tower. Their residents were evacuated due to the fire. The blocks, Barandon Walk, Testerton Walk and Hurstway Walk, also lost access to hot water as they shared a boiler beneath Grenfell Tower that was destroyed in the fire. [13]
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. The fires revealed that large numbers of buildings had been clad in dangerously combustible materials, comprising a combination of flammable ...