Tower Block Inferno London

Two-hundred firefighters are battling a massive blaze at a block of flats in London with reports of people are trapped inside and screaming for help. Forty engines were called to the 27-storey Grenfell Tower at just after 1.15am local time, on the Lancaster West Estate, near White City.

Pictures from the scene show the flames engulfing most of the block.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40269625

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4601902/Huge-inferno-West-London-tower-block.html

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That tower fire is dreadful and those poor souls must have suffered in the most horrific way. 

 

I find it strange that it burnt for ages and IT never FELL down like the ones in 911

This is what I read about why it did not happen.

 

'Grenfell Towerwould have collapsed if had been built four years earlier, a structural engineering expert has said.

Dr John Knapton, emeritus professor of structural engineering atNewcastleUniversity, said although there was 'no guarantee' that the building would not fall down, it was 'unlikely.'

However building regulations changed in 1971 following a gas explosion at the high-rise Ronan Point inEast Londonin which four people died, the only time a block of flats inLondonhas collapsed.

 

GrenfellTowerwas completed in 1974, so would have needed to comply with strict new regulations which ensured buildings would not fall down in the event of a blast, or a major fire.  However recent cladding works to the outside may have exacerbated the fire, according to experts at theUniversity of Edinburgh. "

Building 7 on 911 was not even hit by a plane and it came down as quick as the Sth & Nth towers -- all quite amazing feats of a controlled demolition  

This is what I found out about how it collapsed, which apparently was not expected, it had several contributing factors that made it collapse.  Twin Towers Collapse. http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0711/banovic-0711.html https://www.quora.com/Did-the-9-11-hijackers-know-they-were-going-to-collapse-the-Twin-Towers-or-just-cause-moderate-damage

Attila,  I have booked marked those to read later, thanks

Plan B my love do you think we should let civil servants design our apartment blocks ..

NO Brocky I do not

I am with you honeybunch,????????

We should not let civil servants decide any part of our life ...

We need small Government and low taxes . Let the individual decide how to spend its wages not a civil servant

 

Evacuated Grenfell Tower victims WON'T be charged rent for the flats they can't live in (after council takes TWO WEEKS to decide)

Troubled chiefs at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council have finally decided evacuated Grenfell Tower victims won't be charged rent for flats they can't live in.

 

Large blaze at brand new block of £1million flats in East London as 'solar panels catch fire'

A large blaze has broken out at a brand new block of flats in East London. The roof of the Bow Wharf building appears to have been engulfed by flames at the scene near Bethnal Green and Mile End.

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