Grenfell: The Fire of London
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Shortly before one o'clock on the morning of Wednesday 14th June, an inferno broke out in Grenfell Tower in West London. It went on to claim the lives of 72 people.
This is the story of that awful night.
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no sprinkler system, no alarms, not even a fire escape!?!?
i know ,disgusting right.. in this day and age it should never happen..NEVER!
In my school every classroom has a fire escape door (because my school is only 1 floor)
the only staircase to get in and out had gas pipes fitted near them...this was a death trap waiting to happen. also no fire blankets, fire extinguishers, emergency lights, balconies and nothing from the emergency services that could have helped
There was no central alarm as the building was designed so that a fire would not spread beyond a single flat and that residents should stay put and not attempt to escape.
Yes, the emergency responders were right, in theory. The cladding made the whole thing a giant matchstick. It was designed the same way as the Trump Tower, other than the cladding.
Only one room should have burned...
Firefighter: Is anybody else in that flat?
5 Yr Old: My brother but he's dead.
HEARTBREAKING
Zynab Abuzar minute ?
10:44
Lol
@@andresmcjr What's remotely funny ?
I died
To this day we still haven't had a full report from the government
The Italian parents as I write this are on tv ....furious they still don’t have answer
Nearly 3 years
A full report won't be published until some time after the enquiry has finished, so possibly not until at least the end of 2021.
If we go on the phase one report then we can see that certain groups will be scape goated allowing others to appear clean.
@Josephoid Because all governments are owned by the Elites! These are Freemasons who worship no other than the fallen angel Lucifer; Satan the devil! They could think twice about us!
The government was too busy with brexit means brexit to explain how 72 people were burned alive.
I remember this like it was yesterday, getting ready to go to school and coming downstairs to see my dad in front of the telly watching the news. Such a horrible incident, I hope anyone who lost loved ones have found peace. Rest peacefully to all who passed❤
I had just got back from school when I heard about it (I was in year 5)
I was sitting in front of the tv laughing thinking no more blacks in England
@@andybarnett3011get a life mate
I was working in grenfall on and off for 3 months and I was supposed to do a job on the roof the day it went up in flames never forgot turning on the to and seeing that
It was at night?
It is an absolute disgrace that no one has been held accountable for this negligence and loss of life.
Agnes Wilder investigation is still ongoing
FunFamTV-UK the guys fridge started the fire is he to blame no
Tony Blair.... His government relaxed the building regulations that allowed Grenfell Towers to be a death trap
@@MaddyMcCancerape Margaret Thatcher did the same before Blair and everyone was in awe. The ones who turned Grenfell into a death trap were the contractors AND the cladding manufacturer. They knew that the material was flammable and the safety certificates were a joke. Still, they put that today's "Oroglas" - sounds a bell? - in place to save a few quid on the final bill. They should be prosecuted till the end of time.
I know
No fire alarms. No sprinklers. No nothing went off, but why? Flamable cladding that is known to be illegal got put up to make the estate "look good" ?!
RIP to all who died. It was a tragic event.
It was built in the 60s when health and safety regulations on newbuilds were more relaxed
@@elliot7753 may have been built in the 60s but buildings like that are supposed to get updated every 3 years I think it is, under the new health and safety act. And yet the council who owned the building didnt which led to how ever many deaths there were.
Very important information and those blaming the firefighter are reacting emotionally and that is okay! They will eventually realize that these heros did what they could!
@@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji I dont think they could have done any better then what they did for them 2 nights. There was plenty who died,who were missing. But they couldnt save them all,its just the horrible part of being a firefighter
Building administration was composed by renters at majority. Maybe they are to blame. But that’s politically incorrect
In this situation Missing means Dead
Marie Williamson that's such a deeply sad reality
It's sadly inevitable. What a tragedy for all involved.
At least this video allows comments unlike most of the Grenfell related videos on youtube.
Just turn invincibility on and jump out
MaMa Katt it means that thier dead and the body couldn’t be found
I can't believe this was 4 years ago. It still feels like yesterday
Their screams are heartbreaking 💔
The flames are mesmerising…until u realise that ppl actually died
Well of course the actual thing tho was 20 years ago 💔
Yh
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@@bambiesdoomsdayblue no it wasn’t, it was in 2017 when this happened 😂
"there was praise for the emergency services"
the same services that are constantly being cut!!!
shame on theresa
They did the best they could with what they had but sadly they never stood a chance x
Meanwhile Portsmouth are building towers today
The ones that have been blamed for this tragedy. Shocking
Tories cut emergency services funding. Grenfell happened and it was an incredibly sad tragedy. Then in December 2019 the UK voted Tory again, now we’re in the midst of one of the greatest disasters in living history and once again, we are struggling due to Tories cutting NHS funding and we rely on underpaid, but incredibly talented and hard working medical professionals to save lives. But it’s ok, because the c*nts that voted tories despite all this, purely because they wanted their sh*tyy c*nting Brexit go outside and clap at 8PM on a Thursday night each week. I’m beyond disappointed at both the general public and the tory government. It makes me sick to my stomach.
There's only ONE stairwell in and out!? Wtf, that is the dumbest thing Ive ever heard.
Michael Gross I know right
Same in my apartment only one stairway and one elivator there is but we have fire leaders on balcony
@@matejchys and no smoke alarms, sprinklers, fire exits, balconies, fire doors, fire blankets
theres 1000's of buildings just like grenfell all over the UK. this is one incident
Two strait wells wouldn’t make any difference under these fire conditions both stairwells would have equally acted as a chimney. Smoke rises and the lift shafts and stairwells acted as chimneys coupled with the heat and the flames too
The fact that they said 72 people died doesn’t sit right with my spirit.
i think there was more because around 600 people lived in the building and the numbers don’t add up more people must of died
@@Ruby4syth some people say they were missing
S & S & M it’s said that 72 people died and 223 people survived if around 600 people lived there i doubt 235 people weren’t in the building if the fire started around 12 am
Ruby -_- they might of been cause it’s the middle of the night but then again no one could of live there
I refuse to believe it was 72 people
I remember watching this in the school 6 year ago I was 15 at the time and i didn't pay that much attention to it but watching it back now made me realise how bad this was. and it makes made sad that no one was held accountable for this disaster. God help all the families that were affected
This was absolutely disgraceful and horrific. I'm not even in the UK and I am so angry and upset over this, it's just horrible
Carrie Bizz me too. I'm in the U.S. I think of it everyday.
Dean Boss I'm so sorry
Um gas mask
Well I saw the whole thing ugh so sad
Carrie Bizz yes yes !!!
I feel like I should make some things clear as someone who's actually from England to those outside of the UK. The firefighters telling people to stay inside there homes is normal procedure for building fires such as this one, its to avoid people panicking and blocking the exits in their haste to save themselves.
The flats are, normally, built to keep the fires contained as such the best thing to do is stay inside yours so your not stopping the firefighters from reaching the flat in question and putting out the flames.
The fire spread too fast and was way too hot for the inflatable devices to be put down safetly, there was nowhere for them to go down without them being popped by the heat or destroyed by falling debris.
There was no room for helicopters to get close, smoke was blocking their sights and as out of control blazes are not as common as they are in say Australia we are not at all prepared for them.
The fire in Grenfell Tower was not a normal fire, it spread so quickly and got so out of control there was nothing anybody can do. Don't blame the firefighters who risked their lives to save all the people they could and don't blame the person who owned the flat where the fire started, he was the one who called 999 and got the people off his floor out.
Blame the people who ignored warnings about how sprinklers should be installed, blame the people who thought it was a good idea to put illegal padding on the building which is the reason it burned so quickly. Blame the company who owned the fridge/freezer that exploded and caused the fire which was apparently a common thing with that brand. Blame the people who ignored the residents that repeatedly told them that the place they lived in was a huge fire hazard.
Xenia-Ellen Caltabiano LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK
The truth is the people who built the tower put cheap flammable filling in between the walls because they didn't want to spend millions on the people who lived there. The fire started by a fault in the fridge freezer. The reason they told the people to stay inside is because it would have been safer if the cheap filling was replaced with more expensive stuff.
And no.1 blame the tory government whose Minister Barwell ignored numerous warnings of the fire hazard.
@@LadyLyndhurst01 I heard that it was the Labour government who put the cladding there in the first place. It was a tragedy that should not have happened.
Also, I would have disobeyed and run for my life. I know that is the official line, but personal safety trumps rules. They can tell me off later.
Blame Tony Blair - it was his government that relaxed the building regulations that allowed Grenfell Towers to be death trap, he should be charged with 72 counts of involuntary manslaughter
It’s so disturbing and upsetting that the women who filmed on the top floor didn’t even make it out alive so heartbreaking 💔😢
IM CRYING 😭😭😭😭 THEY SOUNDED SO KIND 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
It was on the news a lot. It was heartbreaking, loss of friends and family. The interviews and their story
Yes so fkin sad till this day. I’m surprised the government never made a response to this
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Tragic. I happened to be passing through London on June 26, 2017, and visited the area out of respect. The building was completely black, charred from the inferno. Visited all the memorials around the tower. So many flowers, messages of remembrance, and messages towards the people in power. And here we are, 4 years later and the investigation is still ongoing. Hopefully, justice will prevail.
And it happened because they decided to save 5000 pounds in a 8,6 million refurbishment and get the cheaper flammable panels.
@@XMysticHeroxthey have also prosecuted NOBODY shame on them. There’s nothing stopping this from happening again. This is going to happen again because of how corrupt the UK is
"my brother is still in the building but he's dead"
i have no words.
@@user-gj4cd5jt6x I thank god everyday I didn’t end up with your brain
@@user-gj4cd5jt6x u mad annoying
Rest in peace your brother
@@littlemixvideosandother6286 its not his brothers its someone in the video
Ignore troll
1 STAIRCASE?! 1 BLOODY STAIRCASE?! 1 STAIRCASE FOR A BUILDING THAT SIZE?! UNBELIEVABLE
Its a flat, obviously there will only be one. It looks big, but trust me, i live in a building very similar, theres no space.
@@Vorrimade buildings like that shouldnt exist in the first place! theres no space is not a argument. external staircase should be standard for buildings like that.
@@Vorrimade not all flats have 1 stair case
@@nataliahassan7218 well most do, especially in britain
The designers should be in jail along witht the local building inspectors and the politicians who cut everything back so far as to not give a damb about these peoples safety
In the 60's and prior there were metal ladders called "fire escapes" required on the outside of every multi story building. Now they are hardly ever seen.
HappyQuails cost too much money for fire escapes I guess.
costs too much money for fire escapes ? but they spend 10 million on that cladding.
TotalGaming the blaze did look like it was burning hot enough to melt metal sadly...
HappyQuails I say get them back
People like me would climb them to the roof then.
That woman was a hero trying to save peoples life. Prayers to all the families that lost loved ones.
3 years ago today😭 Justice for Grenfell needs to be served
Hope so but I'm not optimistic (please let me be wrong)
Baller Confirmed amen
@bass monster yes it was but it was also A case of gross negligence on the councils part. They were made fully aware of issues with electrics and other safety concerns but chose to ignore it, therefore it is a total injustice. This could have been prevented and should’ve been. The fridge catching Fire was an accident yes but the fire should not have spread as quickly as it did, and they knew about this but chose to ignore it rather than pull their fingers out and fix the concerns raised rather than brushing people off. The whole building was covered in cheap cladding, they could have gone for the more expensive option but chose to play Russian roulette with peoples lives and save money with cheap cladding ultimately ended up killing so many people because of the cladding catching on fire which again should not have happened
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Those that approved use of that cladding knew it was flammable. How they sleep at night I do not know.
How? Their pillows are lined with £££ banknotes, and those are more effective than Nytol.
i dont get it how can any flammable material or things that can set a fire oftenly arson or non-arson be allowed IN ANY MULTI FLOOR BUILDING
They shouldn't be allowed to sleep. Ever.
It was under labours watch
but it was so cheap!!! They can get a bigger bonus at the end of the year if they don't spend as much!!! Ugh money makes people despicable
Even after two years, this is impossible to watch. RiP.
True
Ik I’m crying
Building regulations after the BLITZ were in place, why
Yeah I still find it hard to believe. My heart aches for them
I can watch it no problem
I only lived a few minutes away at the time of Grenfell. I woke up on a school morning to turn on the TV and see that there was a flaming building on my screen, watching people only so far from me struggling and suffering :(
I’ll never forget a couple days after on my way to Shepherds Bush seeing the building before it had been covered. Honestly, it was the most horrible thing ever. I could never imagine seeing live and in person and hearing all those screams. God bless all of these people who survived and lost their lives.
Every time I pass Grenfell Tower I ALWAYS do a prayer
@MrBusticador how??
@MrBusticador maybe not to u but i believe in God
How do the Tower look now?? Do they whant to rebild it ??
👍
Maria Peters no they’re planning to make it a memorial like 9/11s memorial
4 years ago today. Still just as horrifying and heartbreaking as it was on that day. 4 years and still no justice. Love to the survivors, and all those still living with the trauma, and without their loved ones, so tragically lost on that terrible night. *** and now it's 5 years on and STILL no one has been held accountable! How do those responsible sleep at night?***
It's so, so, so horrible. I can't believe no one has been held accountable yet. I'm so angry.
💔💔💔
Horrible,we heard about it in America,so very sorry, UK.
@Zockblatt Shickleblender Good because London sure as heck needs it.
This is the fire of the world How is the fire of the hereafter? It was said that the infidel was tormented in the fire and found a fire from the fire of the world to rest in it I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger We seek refuge in Allah from disbelief and polytheism
i cried watching this documentary. may their souls rest in peace.
Amen
Dont worry I'm on your side here because this bad
@MrBusticador ?
MrBusticador he does if he did not u would not be alive rn
@@Blahblahd1 evolution
I'll never forget this. It feels like it was ages ago but it also feels like it was just yesterday. RIP to all of those lost.
true on this - still the enquiry is ongoing and will anyone / company be held to an account over this disaster.
I remember watching it on the news and was confused
Shame on whomever built that tower. The damn thing is so flammable! It's burning like everything it was made of was soaked in gasoline.
The cladding accelerated the fire.
The company who installed the cladding on the exterior of the building put peoples lives last.
Disgusting.
The plastic cladding IS essentially gasoline. It’s a petroleum product.
This is like something from the 1800-1900s. There was a similar fire to this in America in 1911 at a sewing factory in Manhattan where 146 people died.
The creator of the tower is innocent, the building has been built up to code and as required for safety, as all towers are. It is the pure incompetency of government, and the companies who used and made shortcuts in modifying the building.
It wasn't built with this cladding, and the architect who designed it had learned the lessons of the Ronan Point gas explosion and strengthened the building to avoid large-scale disasters, after the fire he even said he expected the tower to last "another hundred years". Construction on the tower started in 1972 and this flammable cladding was only installed in 2015-2016. A witness in the video mentions that they had just recently installed it, maybe try watching it.
Why did K&C apply to have Grenfell demolished in 2014 but spend over £8M renovating it in 2016? Now the building is gone along with most of the tenants in 2017. There's a serious case of corruption & corporate manslaughter going on here. We need an inquest & prosecutions, a lot of people need to go to jail for this.
I just posted a video where a fireman claims they found '42 bodies in one room huddled together' check it out on my channel!!!!!
I just read that 'demolition' doesn't mean 'demolition' .. just a part to be altered and they use the term 'demolition'. oi vey
Live Life for them who lost live
Live Life Demand Justice.
Demand justice.
The wealthy snobs complained about the aesthetics of the building for years, coercing the council to give the tower a new look. I hope they leave it standing as a memorial to the victims and a payback to the snobs.
It will at least stay standing until 2018, as the forensic searches are expected to continue until then.
these people died due to the vanity of others,i find this totally discusting ..jeff..
And the same people are now going mad incase they have to live alongside the survivors. They are vermin. This fire united Londoners, we collected and gave out of helplessness and horror. But not with them..they are hated now.
Karen Voncripps who's """they are hated now?????"
Blake Steele I hope the rich get a taste of PTSD. haunts them for life.
It's absolutely sinful that NO ONE has been held accountable for this tragedy in any capacity! That screams dirty local government to me! This MUST NOT be forgotten, the people who lived there, their friends and family's suffering MUST NOT be forgotten! Those who knew this cheap alternative cladding was dangerous and sold it anyway should be held accountable. There are still over 200 buildings in London alone that have this exact cladding on them! WHY is that?
I wouldn't be surprised to find that someone with enough power had taken bribes to allow this material. Or construction companies claimed to install cladding with built-in fire retardant but used cheaper stuff in reality and pocketed the money saved.
As an American, it was Stormzy and his mass criticism that brought me awareness. This is sickening.
Your probably one of the only Americans I’ll ever like
@Fabulous Fiona really? It was a huge incedent
@Fabulous Fiona : It was only one of the biggest tower block fire in London.
he's jumped off that bandwagon now though....straight to the next one
One American that I don’t want to punt
To hear the screams and be completely helpless... how agonizing must that be?... May those lost souls rest in peace🙏
I had to friends that lived here I went to school with havent here'd of them sence so assume they passed away hearing those screams as people say it made my blood chill all this good people died may they rest in peace I'm not religious person but I hope there in a better place
Sounds like something that happened over 20 years ago in NYC...
@F5Storm1 Yep just the difference that it wasn’t a terrorist attack
@@F5Storm1 happy land?
@@donnawalton7583 terrorist attack by bush
Tragic... tragic... tragic ! So many contributing factors.
1. The cladding was highly flammable
2. There were previous complaints and serious concerns raised about the safety of the building which were ignored
3. People were told to stay inside by emergency responders
4. Fire alarms weren’t working so some people probably didn’t even know anything
5. It only took about 15 minutes for the whole block to turn in to a fireball
6. People had to jump out of the building... which resulted in more deaths
It’s a shame, because the emergency services that responded to the first calls and advised people to “stay put”, only did so because normally a fire in a tower block flat is contained in one flat and would usually only affect that floor. However, this was a complete exception because of the terrible material on the building, used merely for appearance purposes. I can’t even lie, If I feel like my life is in danger, no matter what emergency services say, I will still leave. There’s nothing to lose in leaving but unfortunately, there was everything to lose in staying. It’s so upsetting. Britain is so notorious for saying “lessons have been learnt” 🙄🙄🙄 after it’s too late.
As soon as they say to stay put start running the same thing happened on 9/11
Okay so let me explain the point about emergency service:
They told them to stay put because remember it was only 1 staircase. It would be harder for them to get up on such a narrow staircase to help people when everyone is crowding the stairs while running down the stairs.
@@kimxhii2406 ok but shouldn’t they priorities peoples lives before trying to put out the fire
@@dumbtch-lk5yr If everyone rushed the stairs more people wouldve died from the stampede. There’s only one set of stairs. Really, the blame is the lack of sprinklers and the illegal flammable material. Those things usually limit fires to one floor and allows first responders to fix the problem. But without sprinklers and with so much flammable stuff the fire spread really quickly and then it became disastrous because procedures are not designed for such mass negligence. I wouldnt blame emergency services procedures, it usually works.
Lessons have been learnt" - only the lasy people use to say this....😢
Do something before,no?
Prevent is better than cure!
This is why I would never dare to live in the top of an apartment block, 1st and 2nd floor would be the only floors I could trust. So scary!
Me too!
At least 58? There was more than bloody 58?
Amina Ahmed there was now blood only piles of chafed bones
Not quite the 670 million killed in the name of your cult.
George D at least 500 people dead, considering there were 600 people living in the flat
Amina Ahmed they're just saying that. But in reality there are over thousands that are dead. What is going on with London?
It was 80
Water wouldn't help, because burning Aluminum will make water dissociate into H2+O2 which leads to explosions. It's criminal to use aluminum cladding for such a building! It's not allowed in Germany for more than 5 or 6 story buildings.
Very true!
Well........no u see that's not water that's liquid nitrogen and fertalizer
Set 1 science
@@a.c.e3299 yes
I believe that those missing were not missing. They died in the fire.
They’re reported missing cuz we can’t be 100% sure but it was probably the fire yeah
@@GolDannyHD I know, but this is just my belief.
Definitely, they just couldn't find their remains because of how completely they burned, or because the structure was far too compromised to comb through the top floors looking for all of them.
@@amberkat8147 exactly!
I wonder if they had a hot lunch.?
I was 11, now I’m 15. I will never forget the night I woke up to finding the news repeatedly talking about this fire. I will never forget the day.. Rest easy little angels and I hope all family’s are still ok. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Damn I was 15 doing my GCSEs and now I’m 21. Feels like yesterday I woke up for my maths exam and saw this on the news
I agree, I was 9 or 10 at the time and the morning I woke up with the news, eating my cereal. I watched in horror, I was almost sick, it was disgusting that someone could do something so terrible. Why would they put illegal flammable cladding on the building? I thought England was supposed to be a place that was more sensible than that. I was horrified at what I saw, the screams echoed in the room as me and my mum watched horrified on the screen. I will never forget the morning I woke up to see such a horror of an accident that could have been entirely avoided had they not put that cladding on.
I was in year 6 finishing SATs, now I’m in y12 doing a levels. I can see Grenfell from my house, and it feels like yesterday. Crazy, someone needs to be held accountable. 5.5 yrs on and no one has taken responsibility smh!
It was allah's will. allah's will was unleashed. so akbar of him.
@@JejuIju I'll make your whole world collapse the same way grenfell dropped
I was a student at NYU during 9/11 and this reminds me so much of that day. I remember seeing fleets of ambulance crews racing downtown only to see them slowly driving back up later in the evening when they realized there was no one alive to rescue.
I thought about that too, but I was too young to remember 9/11 and it didn't feel right.
It was also because of people supposedly choosing to jump instead of burning or asphyxiation.
@@alialias3913 no
@@alialias3913All of it is, including 7th building
US airforce was playing war games on that day.....
And decided to fire missiles from fighter jets at twin towers...they were pissed off at gov reducing army budget....
The fighter planes were then disguised with CGI imaging and rest as we know is history !
I don't understand why they make buildings so tall, knowing no one would be able to get to them
More money for rich mostly white people.
saves space
Lisa Pincott and no sprinkler system!! Or fire escapes!!
That’s not the point. The fact that the building is very weak and therefore got burnt quickly
I don't understand why people still live in them
This story make me cry
Sacdiyo Ali me too i cant i cried for days
Same. I started crying as soon as they said Rania was unaccounted for and the screaming.:(
lila-rose the screams... i nearly lost my brother in that fire and 12 of my friends died
I don't feel like crying when watching this, what it does make me though is angry so incredibly angry
Sacdiyo Ali and what about me... my uncle my uncle was in there for hours he even died
We in Valencia (Spain) have had a similar fire (yesterday, 22th February 2024). This should have not happened again!
4 years on and still nothing has been done. it is shameful that justice is yet to be served
And justice will likely never be served to powerful people. The construction they're using today is very cheap and burns very quickly.
5 years now....
Drove past the other day - I swear I’ve never gotten such chills before - the government still hasn’t given a report to why this tower had no fire escape or alarm
Disgusting.
happened to a block of flats at cowley north of oxford uk same thing one spark whole thing gone in miuets.
Even now building regulations allow for the building of such blocks with only one staircase for escape. It did have alarms but they weren't loud. The residents had been complaining for years to the council about safety issues and they were ignored. The Inquiry has been hearing evidence that indicates that this type of cladding was falsely claimed to have passed fire safety tests or tests were manipulated to ensure a 'pass'. There was a whole chain of failures presided over by this Tory government and Tory council that put profits above safety.
It had no fire escape?
@@danielmorse4213 no, u can see in the layout of the building in some other videos, and if u look they the comments u can find some more reasons as to what else the building didn’t have
The real question is why didn't they evacuate immediately, that's just basic common sense, I was taught that in Kindergarten.
The same cladding was put on my tower block. After this happened it came to light that not only was it put on the building but done incorrectly they had to rehouse the 12 floor tower. Thankfully I had moved. It is so sad that so many had to die in such an horrendous way for things to change. R.I.P to all those who lost there life.
Their life, not there life.
Not trolling, just saying 👌
By 2021, 150 buildings had been found to have this cladding applied to it. The US had refused its approval for sale. The company who made it went to Britain and sold it there. Greed and dishonesty all around.
This is continuing to happen they aren’t stopping this
4 years ago today.. Still, no one has been charged for this. Families are still suffering. Shame on this pathetic government!
Well maybe if that stinking, cowardly 3rd worlder had tackled that tiny fire on his fridge, instead of taking the time to pack all of his belongings into bags and warn his immediate neighbours before calling the fire brigade. Then just perhaps a tragedy could have been averted. Much as I despise our government it's not it's job to teach people common sense.
Shame on Jeremy Corbyn
@@ghost7ii692 What has he got to do with it?
Boris in power now it's only gonna get worse
@@ghost7ii692 shame on your boris and theresa dumbass
That building held 600? It was late at night, so most were asleep 200 were evacuated and only 58 dead? What about the other 300?? R I.P
MFCMitch British government lied about the numbers because they probably had a hand in starting the fire.
Some were out of the building at the time. (Very small amount) but the rest were classed as injured. I.e x amount survived unscathed x amount survived with injury and the rest 😔
Now over 250 people have been rescued and 72 are dead
Killersbhoy the fire started with a fridge freezer
@Paul Judkins there was around 400-500 people inside at the time if the fire, and there were barely any single occupations
Who owns the building? Get angry with them. If the cladding was banned, they had to know as they could not have had the building insured.
The cladding isn't banned in the UK. The EU ban hasn't made it into law yet.
Azra Elis exactly, what a terrible terrible mistake
The cladding was actually given a false fire safety rating by the manufacturers so it wasn't really the fault of the building owner.
The council own it
01denese Governments cut corners!! Thatcher scrapped 20 pages of building regulations in the 80’s and tendered council jobs out to private contractors who could cut corners!! It’s never been the same since! In the 60’s.. Buildings had to have fire escapes! And sprinklers should have been fitted!!!
The hopelessness that woman recording on the top floor must've felt, along with all the others that died is unbearable. Someone must pay for this
I'd lived there for more than two years, and this video brings tears to my eyes... Wonderful building filled with wonderful people...
Wonderful people, TERRIBLE building.
@@RumerPriestly that's how I remember it...
A flat fire geez i hope your ok
Whose bright idea was it to clad this building in highly flameable material? That sounds like something a Housing Authority would do.
The person who built it. They didn't want to 'waste' millions. so they brought £5,000 (cheap) cladding
Noelle Young agreed humans are much more important than cladding they should have done anything at cost to protect their residents
@@noelleyoung521 instead they wasted people's lives
@@noelleyoung521 No, it was built in 1974. The cladding was put on the building in 2016.
What gets me is that I have seen other UA-cam videos about tragic fires that were caused by inflammable cladding, that happened years earlier. This wasn't a one-off. This has happened before, for exactly the same reason.
The fact that it's been 4 years and that cladding is still only slowly being removed from buildings up and down the country is sickening.
what cladding was it
@@danielasanabria5022 - Some that had been refused approval in the US for sale. There are some articles about it.
I was on flight BA12 enroute to Heathrow from Singapore for a 2-week vacation in London. Looked out the window to enjoy the view when I saw a huge column of smoke; only learnt what truly happened upon watching the news at the hotel.
I hadn’t heard about this - I’m just watching it for the first time. The criminality and lack of justice is just sad. The loss of life is devastating. Deepest condolences from the US.
The Manchester arena bombing concert was more tragic than this one. Happened in the same year.
@@captainhindsight8779 Learning alot about the UK today.
@@captainhindsight8779 the Manchester attack was tragic but not as tragic as this
Same.
What? This was news in the whole world.
I am crying whilst watching this. It's even more emotional how the 5 yr old boy said ''My brother but he's dead''. It's heartbreaking. I wish all those families the best.
This is why I’m afraid of living in an apartment
It can still happen in a house or anything
I live in a apartment I’m so scary now
I live in a ground floor apartment with two floors in the building and I am STILL terrified of my neighbours having a fire, especially as I have a man suffering with alcoholism above me, I'm petrified of him falling asleep with a cigarette lit etc. Luckily I live in an old building which is less likely to go up like a firework because of dodgy cladding. This video makes my heart hurt.
U can't run from the death.
@@amanaline9211 ik i just rather not die that way
The statement that hit me the hardest was that the fire hoses and ladders could only reach the 12th floor. In this modern age how can this be? We build ever upwards but have no way of fighting fire in them? And then for all the officials to sit back and claim "not my fault" and they all got off scott free. It is sickening. I will never live in a tall building. Bless the victims.....bless the firefighters. I am sad the survivors will never see justice.
i mean thats why they build modern tall buildings in a way so fire doesent spread and like wtf they gonna do have a fire truck whit a 67 meter lift? its impossible
@@stevelandry6825dont bring 9/11 into this, there is absolutely no need
Ladders can only extend so far before they stop being safe, a ladder exceeding 12 floors won't be stable. Hoses longer than 12 floors will also be much harder to store on a fire truck, at some point there is a limit
@@stevelandry6825we lack a plane here as we lack aviation fuel
@@stevelandry6825 because it's nothing like it. Learn
My friends cousin died in this fire in honour our primary listened to the song for grenfell tower. We all cried and cried to the song. This reminded me and my classmates of our passed ones and it was hurtful. RIP to everyone who died!❤️😔
…damn
i’m so sorry for his loss :(
RIP to your friend’s cousin
On Sunday I met a lady who lives near Grenfell and the anger is still palpable. I believe the official number of 78 deceased is too low.
Completely inaccurate, I assume that those are the individuals whose identities were confirmed.
It was 78. The government isnt at fault, the government didnt start the fire, Its not a conspiracy.
This was nearly 3 years ago but seems like yesterday... scary. I remember everything all the news and everything, heartbreaking
Same I was young then so I thought it was cool no disrespect
@@peterviezik2602 yeah I was young, i must have been about 10?? Idk, it was so shocking
I was just watching TV then my mum put on the news cuz I went away then came back and saw the building
My mum made sure I wanted to watch it in case it made me cry
@@phoebe_2007 I was 6 I think 8bwatch3d it live now I'm 11
Around 2am on September 11, 2021, my 15th story apartment building caught on fire. But luckily it was a small fire and we all managed to get out.
Not on that specific day 😭
It’s now the 2nd anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
Edit: it’s now the 3rd anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
Edit: it’s now the 4th anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
Edit: it’s now the 5th anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
Edit: it’s now the 6th anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
Edit: it’s now the 7th anniversary. RIP to all the souls that perished
All talk no trousers
Rachel Taaffe shutup. I actually care about the innocent lives of these people. I’m not saying this for attention or likes
RIP 😭😭💙🙏❤️
@@Yasin_2312 tbh we dont know that for sure
Coming to the 4 anniversary
Got recommended this after watching news of the building collapse in Miami, those who build these huge structures ,that house PEOPLE, not up to regulation should absolutely be charged with murder and jailed for life. There's no excuse for this, they knew what they were doing when they were building it and that it was unsafe. Murder by negligence should be charged to the fullest extent.
The founder of McAfee, who ,,died" recently, owned an apartment in the Miami building. I don't think that the fire set up normally.
ROTFL.. buddy, if a building has to meet all the regulations and more - just common sense, it will not be a council building. It wouldn't even be a privately owneg, wooden frame 3 story building. In UK buildings are cheaply made, and no CO or CO2 alarm, no fire proof door would help that. I belive only tens of thousands burned every year would change the approach of urban planners.
@@melisa3634 wait fr
@@jackallen2887 sure
@@Ansset0 legit?
The queen was given £2.5 billion to renovate Buckingham palace by tax payers
It would’ve costed £5,000 to safely clad this building
As of 2017 the Royal family brings in 550milion pounds from Tourism and other sources.
The African And despite that, the building still burnt. What now?
@@theblackpearl7035 and spend a lot more than that on their ever expanding family.
The Black Pearl the royal family live on the dole, the palace is the biggest council house
Ah yeah, blame the royals.
I used to be a Forensic Architecture Technician. A major part of our professional services was inspecting hi-rises for fire safety -checking conditions vs. building code at the time, and those items required to be up to date. I’ve never seen something so egregious!! Those panels were ridiculous- I don’t know how anyone with half a brain would consider using them! And if only one fire stairs too, that’s nuts. I doubt there were any fire doors. Thankfully, the things I’ve seen have been nowhere near this level of shoddiness. EDIT: No sprinklers??? What the hell?!?! Has London forgotten the great fire in the 1660’s, and The Blitz??? This is the 21st century. Unbelievable.
I know that fire stairs regulations differ country to country but there is no doubt that Grenfell Tower’s height exceeded the threshold requiring a second staircase in the building code at the time. The building was designed in 1967, and built in 1972.
There was an Afghan army officer, a Sudanese dressmaker, a British artist and an Italian architect. There was an Egyptian hairdresser, an Eritrean waitress and a Lebanese soldier.
The lives of Grenfell Tower: the 71 victims of the fire
There were taxi drivers and teachers, football fans and churchgoers, devout Muslims, big families and not-working single youngsters called "Chaws" .
79
What? I can’t understand
Chaws what? 😭😭
LMMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I feel Grenfell was another victim of social cleansing. Repairs weren't done, the refurbishment was shoddy and clearly dangerous. It was only a matter of time before it would have been emptied, knocked down and "affordable" housing built in its place displacing all residents to less wealthy areas. Residents that survived said repeatedly there was no central fire detection system which is illegal and no sprinkler system either
I still remember going past the tower in 2019/20. No words can even describe what it was like in the moment for everyone. No words.
👍
I could never live in a building like this for that exact reason.
Some aren't fortunate enough to be able to turn down housing, even if that means living in a dangerously built block. 😕 I can't believe this cladding is on so many builds like this still. Or they're charging residents to replace it instead of the private companies who messed up and cut corners in the first place. So sad. Everyone deserves a safe home.
The building was solid at least it did not implode like the world trade towers, it just had a 90s shell suit on.
@@paulz2325 Yea crazy how different they are, but yet the same.
they have no choice
Brings a lump to one's throat. RIP to everybody who died in this catastrophie.
I was still a bit angry that early this year I had to move out of my rental room in Germany because the landlord said the passage to stair case of my room was too narrow and could be blocked when another room's door was opened so it was declared unsafe by the authority and its residential use was banned. Until now.
why get angry seemed like some one was thinking of others how much money would they lose just to keep yousafe.
@@raypitts4880 That’s what HC is saying - they didn’t realize it “until now” seeing this horrific tragedy
I grow up that area when I was young I will never forget this
This Terrible Accident brings Tears to My eyes watching from the other side of the World.
I am in Canada and stumbled upon event in my UA-cam feed as it was happening live. It was so horrible. I was so heartbroken. I felt so helpless. What an awful awful night
Thats how i found out. UA-cam feed.
We should never forget the emergency services for their great work.
Overall, yes. But someone from the Fire Service told some residents to go back inside their homes while they were making their way down the stairs. Those people never got out alive.
@@MercurialRed9 source.
@@MercurialRed9 every firefighter would have laid down their lived for every resident of that tower block! Why not have a pop at those who put the dangerous cladding in to the building?
@@MercurialRed9 Because they’re trained to tell residents to do that. The firefighters believed they’d be safer inside their flats, due to fire doors, and the protocols that SHOULD have been in the tower. Not the fire fighters fault, they done their job.
@@MercurialRed9 Had the building been constructed to the appropriate standards, the residents should have been safer in their flats. Procedures did not account for the fact that corners had been cut in maintenance and construction.
5:25 "oh my God they're screaming"
Really got me. I can't even imagine the terror of being in a burning building too tall to jump from
I went to visit my family in Hammersmith 7 days after this awful tragedy happened & the blanket of shock and grief that covered the city was very palpable from the moment I stepped off the train at Kings cross station. I was pleasantly surprised at how much everyone pulled together in support of everyone who was affected by this awful situation, including my own family, who had tirelessly banded together to bring clothing, bedding food, drink & toiletries for the people who had lost everything. Big-up to the London massive! 💖💖💖
"We're Londoners, we've got to help eachother."
Someone in the government should go to prison for this
Why?
I wonder why the people never put smoke alarms... Wait.. I know.. BECAUSE THEY WANTED PEOPLE TO DIEEEEEEE
Someone in K&C council AND many people at the contractor company. It was them who chose the cheapo flammable, illegal cladding.
@@Gavichap That's right - the cheap flammable cladding was unsuitable, and contrary to fire safety regulations, surely? In Britain fire officers used to be involved in giving fire certificates for buildings, but by the time Grenfell Tower was refurbished with flammable cladding & insulation there was effectively a system of self-assessment for compliance with fire regulations. There was no effective control by a competent professional with expertise in fire prevention.
This tragedy just cemented my resolve to never live in a tower block. Those poor people didn't stand a chance. :(
Let us never forget this. And keep fighting for their justice
2021 and still shocked. HOW CAN THEY ESCAPE WHEN THERES ONLY 1 STAIRWELL
Very poorly designed building. How did they get a permit to build it?
@@gregb6469 exactly theres barely any fire alarms and call points and fire escapes and extinguishers how did they get an engineering degree
@@vaseofflowers4619 dont think so
@@vaseofflowers4619 i agree
I’m watching in 2020 and it still breaks my heart 💔
😢😢😢😢
Still no answers!
Welcome to 2021... Still no answer
@@shadowfox1299 same
It’s shameful! The government disgrace.
man im pissed off
Me too
Same
Deeply sad
a man my father knew was in this fire. he went back to help some elder women on his floor but unfortunately none of them made it out. rip to all the victims of this horrible tragedy 😔💗
absolutely tragic
Danzel Samuel Purantoro my bro (paul Menacer he survived) and my friends biruk, jessica, nur huda and her family and too many to name died in the flat and im still left in tears 6 months on
MR. 47 I am cryingg so much i'm sorry. This is so sad! 😣😭
This was a nightmare to live in I almost died because I was in grenfall at the time but my family survived thankfully
This is one of the few times that I can think of something being banned in the US before the UK - that type of cladding isn't allowed in our building codes.
Thanks to @skynews for putting this report together. As a building design researching student, it'll help shape my opinion on the importance of fire safety in building design. All those death could have been prevented if engineers had adhered strictly to building regulations.
safety has been a very important important priority in building design for a few centuries
My prayers goes to everyone😔 this should never be happening..
Me too
After watching this 4 years later still gives me the chills. I feel sad members of family passing away
I still never forget this tragedy and most of those poor people listened to the authorities telling them to stay put and wait for help that's a lesson we must learn I think many could have lived if they hadn't listened to authorities even the people on the ground was shouting get out of there
All multi flats are designed to stay put. All multi storey flats have one staircase. Shoddy building materials used in this refurb was the reason. All multi flats are the same - one main staircase. Should be safe - for the past sixty years, this has been the case.
@@JamesSmith-ro2tz it's all about the cheapest way
@@likeaboss6421 In the UK, that's how flats are usually built. The doors are meant to stop flames for a certain period of time as well as the outside walls, which is what went majorly wrong, with other things, at Grenfell. It's meant to allow the first firefighters to have time to actually get to the flat where the fire began
@@who9724 safety protocol is not always right, as we have witnessed here and many grounded citizens tried to warn the residents to get out of there landing on deaf ears as most of the residents chose to listen to authority and stay put sadly losing thier lives ...it is wot it is
@@likeaboss6421 That's very true, that's our safety protocol 🤷
R.I.P to those who have sadly died in this terrible fire .
Oh my heart breaks in two listening to their worries and cries. Lord please this was the worst day in London. I cried.
I was only 4 years old. My mum rushed me out the building. My cousin was having trouble breathing. My friend Isabella and her family jumped. Isabella had lost 4 bones broken (both legs, both arms) and her mum lost about 3 or 2 I can’t remember I think it was both her legs and I think her arm but I can’t remember and I really don’t want to. Isabella’s sister and her dad were visiting her aunt. I saw so many people waving there torches on like the upper floors. That was traumatising. I was sleeping and my mum quickly woke me and my older sister up after she could hear people screaming and luckily I lived on the lower floor. I lived on floor 2 and my cousin lived on floor 3. Isabella lived on the 15th floor. I feel like crying right now, my uncle died from it but my cousin and my aunt managed to survive. The alarm was so quiet it didn’t wake me up. Actually that might be cos I’m a heavy sleeper but it wasn’t very loud. The amount of coughing I could hear was crazy, I wish my 4 year old mind worked better.
Reading this while I’m at work. I’m a fire warden in a similar building. 12hours on shift. There’s somebody here 24/7. Making sure fire exits are clear while the building is surrounded by scaffolding fixing it and putting in sprinklers. My thoughts are with everyone involved. Even though I’m here to make sure the buildings alright Such a scary thought that this could happen.
In the light of the fire at Notre Dame recently, are there masses of donations being given for the reconstruction of this building, Grenfell Tower? No: Y? Because Grenfell Tower is not a tourist attraction and is not lucrative enough for businesses to help or care about.
and what about the less fortunate people? Who cares about the buildings
Well, the tower shouldn't be rebuilt. For reasons such as the dangers of the cladding coming down and the ashes affecting the health of others in the area. And also It's best keeping it there because it's now a memorial and reminder of the tragedy and to the victims that died.
I am so glad, that my mate moved out of that building 2 months before the fire started. He was very glad, that he werent still living in there when the whole fire started.
Omg, what floor did he live on?
RIP to all that died so terrible and Lord please be with the survivors.