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On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, England, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. . Seventy people died at the scene and two people died later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 esca
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 .
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 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 ...
Grenfell Tower, built from concrete in the 1970s, had been covered during a refurbishment in the years before the fire with aluminum and polyethylene cladding — a layer of foam insulation topped ...
A long-awaited report into the deaths of 72 people in a fire at Grenfell Tower is due to be published more than seven years after the blaze. The lengthy document – the final report of the ...
English: In the Phase One Report to the Grenfell Tower fire, there was a graphic giving this information, this was widely re-interpreted by the newsmedia. Taking the one use by Warrington Guardian as the base, the information is presented as a svg.
By Catarina Demony, Michael Holden. LONDON (Reuters) -A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a "culmination of decades of failure" by ...