No sprinklers in UK buildings or what?
Sprinklers would have been useless as the fire spread up the outside of the building.
Last year, new cladding was installed on the outside of the building in the wealthy Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to make it more attractive, probably to the billionaires who live nearby in their mansions. It seems that the cladding - which has been banned in the US - is highly flammable. One man believes the fire started in his flat near or at the bottom floor when his refrigerator exploded.
Grenfell Tower residents use knotted blankets as ropes to try to escape...
The current death toll now stands at 30 but at least another 70 or so are still missing, feared dead...
'I am very, very happy. I have lots of dreams I want to achieve': Child's heartbreaking singed note is found outside Grenfell Tower block after inferno
By
Isobel Frodsham and
Harvey Day For Mailonline
14 June 2017
A heartbreaking note written by a child describing their happiness and dreams has been found among the charred remains of the Grenfell Tower block.
The note, which has been singed at the edges, reads: 'I can not describe my feelings.
'I am very, very happy. I have a lot of ideas and plans.
A heartbreaking note (pictured) written by a child describing their happiness and dreams has been found among the charred remains of the Grenfell Tower block
'I have lots of dreams I wants to achieve.'
The note has been signed off: 'Mr Vellow'.
Is it not known who the note belonged to or if they managed to escape the blaze.
'Blood on their hands': Fury over Grenfell fire boils over as protesters storm Kensington Town Hall, boo PM and march on Downing Street shouting 'May must go'
Frustrations over the fatal Grenfell Tower fire boiled over yesterday as victims, residents and protesters took to the streets of central London demanding answers over the blaze. Hundreds of people gathered at Kensington Town Hall (bottom right) in west London wanting to know how the tragedy could have happened. The frustrated victims and family members then marched to the scene of the blaze at Grenfell Tower (left). A separate march was held on Whitehall (centre), where protesters were angry with the response from the Government following Wednesday's disaster. These demonstrators later held a sit-in at Oxford Circus (top right). Earlier Theresa May was heckled as she met victims at St Clement's Church in west London.
Video: Protesters (looks like mainly Muslims) chanting 'murderers' storm Kensington Town Hall
I've noticed that this brown Left-wing rent-a-mob which has been attacking the Prime Minister and shamefully calling her a murderer have not been venting their frustrations in this way at London's brown, Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan...
'Murderer! Coward! Shame on you!' Theresa May is jeered by furious crowd and hurries back to her car under a heavy police guard after she FINALLY meets survivors of the Grenfell inferno
Theresa May was booed and jeered tonight by an angry crowd after she met survivors of the Grenfell inferno but failed to address people demanding a response to the devastating fire. The Prime Minister was barricaded inside the St Clement's Church for around 30 minutes as she bowed to pressure to return to the scene 24 hours after a bungled visit. But anger outside the church boiled over as word spread Mrs May was inside. The front door had been left ajar as the meeting began but was closed and guarded by police as the crowd grew quickly. As the disastrous encounter escalated, officers bundled the ailing PM out of the church's side entrance following her private meeting with people inside. In the end the Prime Minister was exposed to the public's rage for only a matter of seconds before being put into her government Land Rover. The car was surrounded, hit and pursued as the PM was driven away in dramatic scenes in West London tonight.
The luxury homes on Grenfell Tower's doorstep that have been left EMPTY by their wealthy owners: Multi-million-pound houses are among 1,300 unoccupied properties in Britain's richest borough
EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline found five mansions worth millions of pounds that had been left empty and abandoned by their rich owners just a stone's throw from the Grenfell Tower inferno in Notting Hill, west London. As hundreds of victims made homeless by the disaster sleep in emergency shelters and bed down on floors of community centres, these sprawling mansions sitting empty could provide shelter for those desperate families. One of the mansions in Holland Park - one of the country's most sought-after addresses - is the former Algerian Embassy and is estimated to be worth £22 million. Nearby is another mansion left empty which is worth £7million. They are just a few of the 1,399 houses in Kensington and Chelsea sitting empty.
Floor by floor, how the tragedy unfolded: Graphic reveals where the dead and missing were living when fire swept through Grenfell Tower
Heartbreaking new details have emerged showing where the Grenfell victims lived inside the 'Tomb Tower' as a haunting roll call of the missing continues to soar. The flats were home to up to 600 people, with 30 now confirmed dead. Sky News reported that sources had told them 70 people are missing and feared dead. There are 24 still receiving treatment, of which 12 are still in critical care. £2.8million has been donated for the victims. An artist whose work is currently being shown at the Venice Biennale was today named as the fifth victim of the Grenfell Tower fire.
Dogs join the grim hunt for bodies on the top floors of Grenfell Tower with 70 people still missing as they are kitted out in 'buster boots' to protect their paws
London Fire Brigade's canine units were sent into the building yesterday along with the MET's urban search and rescue dogs. The dogs are looking for the more than 70 people who remain missing after the inferno. Police have confirmed that 30 people are dead after the west London tower block caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The blaze, thought to have been started by a faulty fridge, quickly engulfed the building, which housed some 600 people. More than 70 people are still missing and firefighters have said they believe no one on the top floors of the building survived. Kitted out in high-vis harnesses and buster boots, the dogs will painstakingly cover the upper floors of the tower.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The shame of playing politics with tragedy
It should have been a week for politicians to join in demanding how such a catastrophe could happen - but hard-Left Corbyn supporters spun a narrative about the fire and 'Tory cuts'.
Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi: Italian couple made final phone calls to their families as flames closed in around their 23rd floor flat
Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi made heart-rending final phone calls to their families as the flames rose towards their 23rd floor flat.
The couple, both architecture graduates, moved to London three months ago to look for work and were captivated by the views over the capital they enjoyed from their 23rd floor flat.
Mr Gottardi, also 27, called his family at 3.45am and again just after 4am.
Italian couple Gloria and Marco lived on the 23rd floor of the tower block and had been in London for three months working
Gloria Trevisan uploaded this picture on April 10 with the caption 'Goodnight London' and is thought to have been taken from their 23rd-floor flat
His father Giannino told Italian newspaper Il Mattino di Padova: 'In the first call Marco told us not to worry. That everything was under control. That basically we must not worry.
'He was trying to minimise what happened, probably not to unsettle us.
'But in the second call – and I can't get this out of my head – he said there was smoke. That so much smoke was rising.'
The family's lawyer Maria Cristina Sandrin said: 'I've heard the recording of Gloria talking to her mother and there is no hope to find them alive.
'She said goodbye. She said: 'Thank you mother for what you have done for me'.'
The lawyer said the families wanted to bring the couple's remains home to Italy, but added: 'We don't know in what condition we will find the bodies, if we will find the bodies.'
Sawsan Choucair, 42, a baker, has told how she lost six family members in the London inferno but survived herself because she was 'too lazy' to leave a friend's house after a big meal
Steve Power, one of the missing, is thought to have said over the phone that he refused to leave his two dogs
Messages from the missing: Heartbreaking goodbyes from terrified people in Grenfell Tower
Tom Towers for Metro.co.uk
Thursday 15 Jun 2017
17 people have been confirmed dead so far after the North Kensington blaze (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)
Terrified victims trapped inside the Grenfell fire sent heartbreaking goodbyes to their families.
Some begged to be rescued as the fire tore through the block, while others bravely told their relatives to go on without them.
A mother trapped with her three children told friends: ‘Goodbye. I’m not going to make it.’
Nura Jemal, trapped with her husband Hashim Kedir, called friends and family to say: ‘The fire is here. I’m dying.’
Her friend Asyia Assani said: ‘When my friend got in contact again at a bit past 2am she knew she could not escape.
Injured father Saber Neda told his family to flee without him as he feared he would slow them down (Picture: SWNS)
‘She said, “Goodbye. I’m not going to make it. Please forgive me.”’
Another parent, injured father Saber Neda, told his family to flee without him as he feared he would slow them down.
The 57-year-old told his wife Shakila, 45, and their 24-year-old son Farhad to leave him in their top-floor flat, saying: ‘You have to get out.’
They survived but he is among
the missing.
Father-of-four Tony Disson was seen screaming at the window of his tenth-floor flat screaming: ‘Tell my boys I love them.’
Khadija Saye told a friend: ‘I can’t leave the flat. Please pray for me and my mum’ (Picture: Twitter)
24-year-old photographer Khadija Saye was last heard from shortly after the fire broke out.
She lived on the 20th floor with her mother, Mary Mendy, 54.
Her friend Nicola Green, the wife of Tottenham MP David Lammy, said: ‘She was saying, “Please pray for me. There’s a fire. I can’t leave the flat. Please pray for me and my mum.’”
‘At one point she’d tried to leave again and it was impossible. She said she felt like she was going to faint.’
Jessica Urbano Ramiez, 12, called her mum to say she was trapped in the building (Picture: Ana Ospina/PA Wire)
Jessica Urbano Ramiez, 12, called her mother at 1.40am, saying she was trapped inside the burning building.
The schoolgirl said she was stuck in a hallway on the 20th floor with others, adding: ‘We don’t know what to do.’
An eyewitness claims he saw her being put in an ambulance, but her family have been unable to find her.
Zainab Dean’s brother Francis hasn’t heard from his sister or nephew since speaking to them shortly after the fire broke out.
Zainab Dean’s brother Francis told her he loved her before their phone call was cut off during the fire (Picture: Facebook)
He said a firefighter spoke to her on the phone and told her help was on its way.
Mr Dean added: ‘But then he handed me the phone and said to me “Tell her you love her.”
‘I knew then to fear the worst.
‘The phone went dead and I couldn’t talk to her.’