Massive fire in London

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

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

Looks bad.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ondon-apartment-block-white-city-latimer-road

 

[CatRyan]

Tower Block fire: started with a fridge on 4th floor allegedly. People told to stay in flats. Upper flats were flashing their lights to show they were there and then stopped. Unclear if everyone evacuated.

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

 

[Some Random Guy]

Fuck, looks horrendous.

 

[Billy Fish]

Oh shit, at that time of the morning there'd be loads in bed a sleep.
Hope the evacuation has got most out

 

[Frijj]

Someone trapped at the top?!

I take it there's no way of getting a rescue helicopter with the intensity of the flames and or smoke?

Jesus

 

[Musicman]

Horrendous

 

[CatRyan]

People told to stay in flats and were flashing their lights. Now fully engulfed and unclear if everyone got out.
George Clark from Amazing Spaces in bits describing a woman on 14th floor unable to get to fire escape and then crying about the upper floors seemingly trapped.

 

[Billy Fish]

Looking at the video it looks like the central staircore is fully ablaze. That should be fire rated and the main means of escape.
Hope most are out, this isn't ending well for a lot of people unfortunately, God bless anyone left inside

 

[Thackeray]

Jesus, never seen the like in this country.

 

[Billy Fish]

Jesus, never seen the like in this country.

Tower blocks are just deathtraps, especially these old sixties ans seventies ones.
Looks like the whole block will be down soon

 

[Deleted member 26533]

Looking at the smoke now from Park Royal way. Mental

 

[Thackeray]

Tower blocks are just deathtraps, especially these old sixties ans seventies ones.
Looks like the whole block will be down soon

Don't remember seeing owt like that before - you see it where a bunch of flats burn out but not the whole thing.

 

[SteveFTM]

Horrendous, looks as though the services had problems getting to the fire due to the narrow road leading to the flats with cars parked on both sides of the road. 40 fire engines and 200 firemen tackling the blaze.

 

[Billy Fish]

Don't remember seeing owt like that before - you see it where a bunch of flats burn out but not the whole thing.

For it too have spread that rapidly there's been no proper fire compartmentation built in or maintained. There'll be reviews and regulation regarding old building stock after this but it doesn't help anyone inside tonight

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

According to the Grauniad they don't know how many stories the building has 24 or 27. It was recently renovated.

 

[Thackeray]

Can only think there's been a massive gas explosion and then the whole system has caught a had.

 

[andyw]

Looking at the video it looks like the central staircore is fully ablaze. That should be fire rated and the main means of escape.
Hope most are out, this isn't ending well for a lot of people unfortunately, God bless anyone left inside

My thoughts exactly. Could be absolutely horrific loss of life. Also raises some awful questions about the cause.

 

[SteveFTM]

Sure ive just heard them say theres people feared still trapped in there.

 

[elder]

looks like some decent sized pieces of debris have fallen and are falling off the building, the chances of collapse must be pretty high. a truly awful event.

 

[SteveFTM]

Surely nobody trapped inside are going to survive this.