The Daily Populous Thursday September 5th, 2024 morning edition
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Spartan2470 on September 4th, 2024 at 16:43 UTC »

Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Satish Pujji, who took this on June 14, 2017. More of his pictures of this can be found here.

> On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. 70 people died at the scene, and 2 people died later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-platform disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the Blitz of World War II.

> The fire was started by an electrical fault in a refrigerator on the fourth floor. As Grenfell was an existing building originally built in concrete to varying tolerances, gaps around window openings following window installation were irregular and these were filled with combustible foam insulation to maintain air-tightness by contractors. This foam insulation around window jambs acted as a conduit into the rainscreen cavity, which was faced with 150mm thick combustible Polyisocyanurate rigid board insulation and clad in aluminium composite cladding panels, which included a 2mm highly combustible polyethylene filler to bond each panel face together. As is typical in rainscreen cladding systems, a ventilated cavity between the insulation board and rear of the cladding panel existed; however, cavity barriers to the line of each flat were found to be inadequately installed, or not suitable for the intended configuration, and this exacerbated the rapid and uncontrolled spread of fire, both vertically and horizontally, to the tower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

Satz0r on September 4th, 2024 at 17:15 UTC »

Context: This happened in my area, I heard about it at 2 am. I didn't realise at the time just how serious it was. I naively assumed that the residents would have been evacuated. I went down to the site at 5am to document what had happened. This image was taken near the local leisure centre where some residents had been taken. I didn't realise at the time that this was Ed Daffarn, whose letters to the local council (in one of the wealthiest regions in the UK) warning of inadequate fire safety procedures became a huge part of the story and subsequent inquiry.

There were 2 neighbours who lived nearby standing outside their houses talking about what they has seen that night. That the top floors had people desperately using their Phone lights to call for help, that they could hear screams. That's when I realised the severity. Residents inside the tower were told by the local fire service to stay put and not to try to make their own escape. 72 people died, including many on the higher floors. Today phase 2 of the Grenfell inquiry was announced.

Professional-Yak2311 on September 4th, 2024 at 18:26 UTC »

From the Wikipedia article:

Two women living in Grenfell Tower, Mariem Elgwahry and Nadia Choucair, were threatened with legal action by KCTMO after they campaigned for improved fire safety.[43] They later died in the fire, at the ages of 27 and 34.[44]

Jesus Christ. Fuck that council