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  2. Grenfell Tower - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Grenfell Tower fire - Wikipedia

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    The tower block had contained the exact same aluminium composite cladding as the one at Grenfell, but this was removed a year before the fire occurred. Residents were noted as saying that the just-in-time removal of the cladding prevented another tragedy on the scale of Grenfell.

  4. Tower blocks in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    A local residents' organisation, Grenfell Action Group, warned that fire safety was inadequate and had expressed concerns about a fatal incident before the fire occurred. [35] The Grenfell Tower fire was one of many similar fires worldwide where unsatisfactory cladding was a factor. Cladding can worsen a fire and enable a fire to spread fast if ...

  5. Grenfell Tower: Inquiry Delivers Report on Fatal London Fire

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    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 ...

  6. London Fire Brigade ‘failed to heed warnings of high-rise ...

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    The report found that the Lakanal House fire in Southwark, south London, in 2009 ‘foreshadowed’ the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.

  7. Exclusive-The Ghosts of Grenfell: No penalties for UK firms ...

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    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 ...

  8. Criticism of the response to the Grenfell Tower fire - Wikipedia

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    Before the Grenfell fire, 70% of fire brigades would have automatically sent a high ladder to tower fires. [ 23 ] An independent fire expert told the BBC having the ladder earlier could have stopped the fire getting out of control. [ 24 ]

  9. 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 ...