Metro – Grenfell the 26-year countdown to disaster
The Metro says that the report found all 72 deaths were avoidable and warning signs had been ignored throughout a “26-year countdown to disaster.” The paper pays tribute to the victims online describing the deaths as one of the largest scale disasters in Britain in recent memory.
Remembering the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower Block fire
Today the final report on Grenfell Tower fire is set to be published more than seven years after the blaze ripped through the block of homes.
One of the largest scale disasters in Britain in recent memory, 72 people were killed when a blaze broke out in Flat 16 of Grenfell Tower in Kensington, West London.
On June 14, 2017, a blaze quickly evolved from a small fire contained in a kitchen to a sprawling inferno covering most of the tower block.
Hundreds were left injured or homeless, and it is hoped today’s report will identify the failures which allowed the fire to spread so rapidly.
Grenfell inquiry findings ‘are a joke’, says man who lost six relatives to fire
A man who lost six relatives in the Grenfell Tower blaze has branded the inquiry as a ‘joke’, saying it has only delayed justice to the 72 people who died.
The final report which was published today – seven years after the fire – said the ‘dishonesty and incompetence’ of companies and authorities caused the deadly blaze to spread rapidly throughout the 24-storey block of flats.
But family members say they are still fighting for justice, with the inquiry being labelled as ‘a joke’.
Hisam Choucair, who lost six members of his family in the fire, said: ‘This inquiry hasn’t taught me anything, in fact, it has delayed the justice my family deserves. All it has done is put an extra nail in their coffin.
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Editorial 05 September 2024.
Thursday’s front pages are dominated by the final report from the Grenfell fire inquiry which lays out the multiple failures that led to the 2017 tragedy.
The report of the six-year public inquiry found that the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 20217 was the result of a chain of failures by governments, “dishonest” companies and a lack of strategy by the fire service, the final report of the six-year public inquiry has concluded.