London tower block blaze

[TrianonDave]

Cheap cost cutting aluminum cladding to make old block of flats look modern! Someone is for the high jump me thinks, terrible and totally avoidable!!

[yubbywelch]

I am dumbfounded by what I heard today, that the evacuation procedures in the building was taught/explained "you stay in your room unless there's a fire in it." Oh my goodness, that is crazy! Yes if you are elderly, or wheel chair bound and you are unable to move, but at the absolute least get to the emergency stairwell.
Not what I teach, train over here. That being said I don't train and teach 20+ story buildings.

[TrianonDave]

I am dumbfounded by what I heard today, that the evacuation procedures in the building was taught/explained "you stay in your room unless there's a fire in it." Oh my goodness, that is crazy! Yes if you are elderly, or wheel chair bound and you are unable to move, but at the absolute least get to the emergency stairwell.
Not what I teach, train over here. That being said I don't train and teach 20+ story buildings.

Well we all heard 911 calls from the twin towers from people trapped on the higher floors and were told to 'stay in your office, the fire service will rescue you'

What I would like to know is why was everyone in this tower a Muslim? There is mutterings of a deliberate arson attack because of the London terror attacks, I'm not buying that one but stranger things have happened. Personally I would say it was a tragic accident, a simple cooking accident from families eating during Ramadam! The BIG question is why did it burn so quickly? some people saying the flames went from bottom to top in just 15 minutes, there is no way you can fight or work around that, I fear the death toll could be anything from 50-100 by the time all the floors are checked out. What an absolute disaster that as I said was totally avoidable.

[yubbywelch]

Fire happens, and will continue to happen, especially as our electrical equipment gets older, and of course there's always the human element.

I reckon it was just an accident, that is going to have huge flow on affects throughout the motherland.

And I reckon over 100 people, just because of what people are taught in that building.

So sad