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The residential floors contained a two bedroom flat at each corner, in between which on the east and the west face was a one bedroomed flat. The core contained a stair column and the lift and service shafts. [8] One-bedroom flats were 51.4 m 2 (553 square feet) in area and two-bedroom flats were 75.5 m 2 (813 square feet). [7]
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
Additionally, many buildings have been found to be non-compliant with other fire-safety building requirements, such as missing cavity barriers around windows and a lack of fire barriers, which are intended to prevent fires from spreading horizontally and vertically into neighbouring flats. As well as these buildings posing an immediate fire ...
Postwar Britain was the stage for a tower block "building boom"; from the 1950s to the late 1970s, as a dramatic increase took place in tower-block construction. During this time, local authorities desired to impress their voters by building futuristic and imposing tower blocks, which would signify postwar progress. [2]
Index Date Building City Country Images Deaths Injuries Number of floors affected by fire 1 January 10, 1990 393 Kennedy St [2]: Winnipeg Canada n/a
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Industrial production in Europe’s biggest economy fell 1.5% in June compared with May, driven by a 3.5% drop in Germany’s vast automotive sector. Germany risks falling back into recession as ...