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Towering Inferno: Screaming Residents Build Ropes From Sheets and Lean Out Windows as Huge Fire at West London Tower Block Engulfs the 27-Storey Building with 200 Firefighters Struggling to Control the Blaze

• The blaze engulfed the 27-storey Grenfell Tower on Latimer Road in White City on Wednesday morning
• Horrifying pictures emerged on social media showing massive flames licking up the side of the block
• Desperate residents trapped high in the enormous residential tower were heard 'screaming' for help
• Police are evacuating panicked residents and two people are already being treated for smoke inhalation
  

Daily Mail/AP, 14 June 2017


The 'horrendous' blaze struck the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road, White City, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Several people are being treated for a 'range of injuries' including illness from smoke inhalation. One neighbour said he believed someone had jumped from the block.


The fire has spread from the second floor to the roof of the enormous 120-flat block, with 200 firefighters struggling to bring it under control.
Panicked residents trapped high in the enormous tower were heard screaming for help as they leaned out of their windows and tied bed sheets together in an attempt to reach the ground.

Flatowners in their pyjamas have been evacuated as police are pushing people away from the area for fear the block will collapse due to 'chunks' of debris flying off from the tower.


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Desperate residents are building ropes from sheets in an attempt to escape a huge inferno that has engulfed a tower block in west London




The entire block has been completely covered up by the massive flames on all sides with thick plumes of smoke filling the air




Witnesses said that the acrid smell was 'horrendous' as the inferno gutted all the windows and swept across the entire building








Several people are being treated for a 'range of injuries' including illness from smoke inhalation. One neighbour said he believed someone had jumped from the block





The fire has spread from the second floor to the roof of the enormous towering block, with 200 firefighters struggling to bring it under control


Police, 40 fire engines and helicopters rushed to the scene as horrifying pictures emerged on social media showing giant flames licking up the side of the block.
Fire crews from North Kensington, Kensington, Hammersmith and Paddington and from surrounding fire stations are in attendance. The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.

Tim Downie, who lives 600 metres from the building, told Sky News: 'The acrid smell is just horrendous. The building has pretty much burnt out, there are just a few bits that are still not burning.


'Every single window is gutted. There is debris falling off it. The heat was extraordinary. The fire has wrapped itself around the block. People on the street said it started on the fourth floor and spread all the way up and around.
The London Fire Brigade said: 'Crews continue to work hard at tower block fire in North Kensington. Fire is from 2nd to top floor of 27 storey building.'

Firemen were inside trying to get people out of the building, which was built in 1974 and part of the Lancaster West Estate.






























The 'horrendous' blaze has struck the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road, White City, in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Residents have been asked to shine torches and phones out of their windows so the fire brigade knew there was someone who needed rescuing.


By 3am, at least one torch was still shining from the block, which was ablaze on two sides as hundreds of concerned neighbours gathered near the building to watch and try to contact those inside.

One neighbour, Derry Glover, told MailOnline he first heard sirens at around 1am. He added that he believed someone had jumped from the building.










MASSIVE LONDON FIRE: Risk Of Building Collapse 24 Storey Grenfell Tower Block Fire In West London, UK.








We all need to pray for the poor people that are trapped inside that inferno....

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Towering Inferno: They DIED in AGONY Due to American Companys' LIES and GREED

The Public Inquiry Into The Tragedy Found Arconic Deliberately Concealed The DANGER.

Screaming Residents Built Ropes From Sheets and Lean Out Windows as Huge Fire at West London Tower Block Engulfed the 27-Storey Building with 200 Firefighters Struggling to Control the Blaze

6 SEP 2024





We heard them SCREAMING from miles away









Arconic Corporation an American industrial company hired to design Grenfell Tower refurbishment which saw flammable cladding wrapped around building before the disaster is blocked from closing down


Employees of firms involved in fitting deadly flammable cladding to the Grenfell Tower joked in sickening messages about ignoring fire safety and ripping off customers.


The public inquiry into the tragedy this week laid bare the sheer duplicity of the companies involved in wrapping the 24-storey building with cladding panels which turned it into a blazing deathtrap.

In his withering 1,700-page report, chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick condemned unscrupulous firms and deliberate lies about fire safety tests.

Police and prosecutors were under mounting pressure to speed up their Grenfell investigation yesterday.

Angela Rayner demanded that they act as quickly as possible after it emerged it could be ten years after the 2017 blaze before bereaved families see any justice.

The Deputy Prime Minister said: Justice delayed is justice denied.




There is growing anger at the shocking details exposed by the long-running inquiry into the systematic dishonesty among building firms involved in the fatal refurbishment of the west London tower.

Police have warned it will take them 12 to 18 months to examine Sir Martins report line by line?.


But some relatives of the 72 residents who were killed said the evidence was already shocking.



THEY LAUGHED and Continued LYING....







Hisam Choucair claimed he saw some bosses laugh while in the inquirys witness box, while others didnt even turn up or hid behind the law of their country.


The inquiry report revealed that a senior employee at insulation firm Kingspan told a colleague that all we do is lie when discussing concerns their product was not fire safe. Bosses at main contractor Rydon gleefully told each other We are quids in! after hoodwinking the local authority over the true costs of the project.


And an employee at cladding provider Arconic told colleagues the company was not clean when it came to fire tests.

A worker at insulation firm Celotex wondered in an email whether its product realistically shouldn?t be used? because in the event of a fire it would burn.

The inquiry exposed disturbing emails between Kingspans employees, including one in which Arron Chalmers told Peter Moss that he knew the insulation panels did not pass fire tests, and Mr Moss replied: WHAT, We lied? Honest opinion now.?


Mr Chalmers wrote: Yeahhhh. Mr Moss said: S*** product. Scrap it, and his colleague replied: Yeah all lies mate, and Alls [sic] we do is lie in here.


And in a separate email in 2016, Mr Chalmers admitted it does seem a bit of a cheat.


Philip Heath, a technical manager at the company, said a builder who questioned its products fire safety should go f*** themselves. He also told friends that builders asking questions were mistaking him for someone who gives a dam [sic].

During the inquiry, it emerged that Rydon, the lead contractor on the Grenfell project, had told the blocks management organisation it could save it up to 376,175 on the cladding, whereas in fact there were far greater savings being offered to Rydon by a sub-contractor as much as 576,973.

Simon Lawrence, contracts manager at Rydon, suggested to the inquiry that Rydon took some of the saving for themselves.










An email from Zak Maynard, Rydons commercial manager, in 2014, was more blunt. We are quids in!!, he wrote, although he told the inquiry he was joking.

At Arconic, the firm which made the combustible cladding panels, internal emails about a failed fire test were damning. Claude Wehrle, its technical manager and a part-time firefighter, wrote in 2010 that it was hard to make a note about this because we are not clean. Mr Wehrle dodged the inquiry, citing an obscure French law.


Arconic has rejected any claim an unsafe product was sold. Kingspan said its failings were in no way reflective of how we conduct ourselves as a group, then or now. Celotex said it had reviewed and improved process controls, quality management and the approach to marketing.