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Originally Posted by Damien
Something that should have started yesterday IMO. Whatever the actual cause and failings are found there seems to be a consensuses that this cladding dramatically increased the speed at which the fire spread. A consensus which is only backed up by the fact it's already been banned in several countries as it's highly flammable.
There are reportedly six towers which this specific cladding. They should have it removed ASAP as well as money made available to start the process of ensuring each tower block has working fire alarms and sprinkler systems.
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You don't have to be a fire safety expert to see that the outside of the building was on fire, and ferociously so. There is no way a fire in a fourth floor kitchen should spread to the top of the building under any circumstances whatsoever. There simply shouldn't be enough flammable material in the basic fabric of the building to allow it. Yet someone thought it was a great idea to put flammable material all the way up the outside of the building, pretty much ensuring that any fire serious enough to blow out any one window could then spread right across the whole structure. This is an utter, utter national scandal of the highest order, and would have been so even if nobody had died. But a lot of people did die, and it seems some of them are so badly burned they may never be identified.