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Some people have managed to escape from some of the upper floors... Hopefully a lot more made it out!
Poor London!
This so terrible!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ents-tell-of-escaping-the-grenfell-tower-fire
"It just caught up like a matchstick’
Another man who fled from the 17th floor said he was alerted to the danger by the arrival of fire engines.
“We saw the fire engines, so we were looking outside at what’s going on. There was no fire alarms anywhere, because we don’t have a kind of integrated fire system – it’s just everyone’s house for itself.
“I walked out into the common area to see if the lifts are moving, to see if people are in a hassle – nothing. But I could smell the smoke.”
The man said he only saw fire when he stuck his head out of the window.
“I went back inside the house, looked out the window. I started looking down the window – I had to really pull myself out to look down the window, from the 17th floor, and I see the fire blazing, and coming up really fast, because of the cladding – the cladding was really flammable, and it just caught up like a matchstick.”
Poor London!
This so terrible! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ents-tell-of-escaping-the-grenfell-tower-fire
"It just caught up like a matchstick’
Another man who fled from the 17th floor said he was alerted to the danger by the arrival of fire engines.
“We saw the fire engines, so we were looking outside at what’s going on. There was no fire alarms anywhere, because we don’t have a kind of integrated fire system – it’s just everyone’s house for itself.
“I walked out into the common area to see if the lifts are moving, to see if people are in a hassle – nothing. But I could smell the smoke.”
The man said he only saw fire when he stuck his head out of the window.
“I went back inside the house, looked out the window. I started looking down the window – I had to really pull myself out to look down the window, from the 17th floor, and I see the fire blazing, and coming up really fast, because of the cladding – the cladding was really flammable, and it just caught up like a matchstick.”
