Latest Grenfel Fire details via YouTube reports

I like youtube because sometimes details the Paid Media forgets to mention on the telly pop up on youtube from folks on the scene.

However, two new 'goodies' did pop up on Fox News today (which they did post to YouTube).
First, the London Police now confirmed at least 70 folks are confirmed missing and presumed dead. Very cautiously the spokesmand did conceed the number may rise.
Second, the Fire Chief spoke truly when she announced the First Responders were on the scene in only 6 minutes after the first phone call. HOWEVER, what she 'forgot' to mention is that the first Fire Truck took over an hour to arrive.

A survior interviewed on YouTube casually dropped another not disclosed yet on Paid Media tidbit. At the bottom of the escape route stairs (many of the smoky stairway lights did not operate which made things fun) there were 'security barriers' which required a key card to pass and people were held up there until someone arrived who had remembered to bring their keycard.

There is of course no excuse for not calling for an immediate remediation (alarms, more stairs (external and vented to the outside to prevent the chimney effect), sprinklers, etc.) of the other buildings identical to Grenfel, but none of the London council seems to be doing so yet.
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ZMan - Keep up to date if you want to comment,...

This was one of my complaints on another blog pertaining to the fire - people running commentary or speculation when there is solid evidence to the contrary. Do a little research and establish what is actually known and avoid contributing to a world of misinformation and hysteria.
It is so sad to me how many folk get on the bandwagon with what went wrong from watching the news. We all know reporters media etc.

People are still being found dead.

Loads of families are not housed, they have nothing!!

The support up until now from the community has been astouding.

People are just coming out of a bad dream into reality.

I could say it was this or that, or because of this or that BUT i do not know, nor will the truth come out until the searches have been completed and the right people get down to the investigating.

sad flower sad flower sad flower In the mean time funerals will start, people still critical in hospital and everyone involved in this disaster, helpers too, will have to come to terms with what the saw, heard and felt.

So talking out your bum in this blog with missinfo in my book is just well, I throw my hands up
at some of the sheer courage and some on the sheer ignorance.
Tokyo / Red, even the number of missing is wrong,the number is 58 not at least 70 as quoted in this blog, the number may go up or down depending on who was in the building at the time & whether any survivors have yet to come forward.

Ken,my suggestion to you is if you want to run a fire safety campaign why not start with asking why an American firm makes/supplies incendiary cladding, if it's banned in the US on buildings over 40ft high is it therefore ok for people who live in low rise apartment blocks to burn?
It is indeed a good question why the British company doing the renovation chose to buy a product which the ad online for specifically says not fire safety approved for over 40 feet. Sure it was cheaper than the good stuff, but really? And who was the compliance inspector that signed off on that installation?
Aaah so now the Russians are involved? I fail to see where Russia or Syria fit into this news story.

What's the point of posting a fake news vid, why would I bother to watch that when I've already seen the vid of the fire chief in charge of the operation state the number of missing is 58, or maybe you think the Russians have got at the fire chief?

Your comments about the British being sheep, I'll let Redex talk to about that.
Yes z I saw that figure and at first everyone expected 100,s see false news.

Z i would not talk to this man anymore about anything, he does not live in London, he cannot feel the grieve---anger or just total dispair, he talks out his bum truly. If anyone in this day and age beleive the internet u-tube who still allow vids of ISIS beheading people and jihadist trying to recruit, well enough said.

Haveing said that some politions are trying to make gain out of this disaster so yes i lump them together as sheep.
There is no dispute of the heroic efforts of the First Responders on the scene, but outrage that it happened will always be justified. The police acknowledge 58 confirmed missing but advise the number may rise. If the missing are indeed dead, then that number needs to be added to the 17 known dead. 75 dead that gives us, with the possibility of it rising. Of course there is anger. There is also the possibility that unless prompt mediation is done in the other buildings, this could happen again and again.
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I see it down to ...

The Company who sold the cladding equipment, knowing it was flammable, and knowing it was to be used for a high rise flat complex, with men, women , children, pets, have blood on their hands.

So do the officials in the council, Dept of the environment, who signed , and gave the OK, in order to save money.
The only positive thing about this horrific event, is, that already apartments and flats around the UK and indeed here in Ireland, are now going to be inspected, as many apartment blocks are not fit for purpose[ Dangerous].



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