MelmothTheLost
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A damning report into the Grenfell Tower fire has revealed that 'nobody wold have died had the building not been re-clad'.
A 210-page report into the fatal inferno in west London states the fire would have had "little opportunity" to spread from the flat it started in if the exterior of the tower had not been renovated with combustible material.
According to the report, seen by the Evening Standard , the 2014-2016 refurbishment of the tower block failed to meet fire safety standards and "deficiencies" in the new facade helped the fire to spread up the building's exterior.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/damning-leaked-grenfell-tower-fire-12372689
What this demonstrates is that even though many of these blocks were getting on for 50 years old, there was nothing wrong with the fundamental design of them. The idea of each flat being a separate fire-proof box remains sound.
I hope the enquiry really does get to the bottom of what went wrong, which as I've said before will, I think, turn out to be a series of errors and miscalculations by different parties.