#Grenfell Tower fire

[zhnnveuxpasdrmir]

this one aged poorly huh

[emergencymanagementnews]

Independent Public Advocate will guide and support survivors of major incidents such as Grenfell Tower fire

[thatwritererinoriordan]

St. Patrick's Day seems like a good time to say this: U.K., your government is made up of cartoon supervillains.

Say what you will about America and our horrific, deadly gun problem. At least our family-filled public housing doesn't burn down.

[insidecroydon]

'Grenfell was crime committed by politicians and corporations'

Build new homes, but make sure that they are safe homes. That’s the message today to the Labour Party from the Fire Brigades Union ahead of Friday’s seventh anniversary of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, when 72 people were killed in a blaze in a residential block. The FBU’s General Secretary, Matt Wrack has appealed to Labour to tackle the lack of regulation that led to the disaster, and to hold…

[breakingjen]

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[thisdayindnphistory]

This Day in Dan & Phil History - July 21

2010 - amazing

2011 - hehe

2012 - some things never change !!!!!

2013 - sombrero frisbee challenge on bbc radio 1!!!

2014 - phil hits 1 mil 🍰

2015 - interesting

2016 - they live 2 different work lives

2017 - the boys take part in a charity liveshow for donating towards the grenfell tower fire in London! <3 #Youtubers4Grenfell 

2017 - Anthony Padilla uploads wtf am i doing (ft. Phil) 

2018 - ii in ny

[vicky82gargoylesfan]

Ok so I recently I decided to contact ITV about Thunderbirds are Go episode Inferno, The episode never aired due the Grenfell Fire tragedy. The series is on ITV X but it's still missing that episode. I contacted them asking if they could put the episode on ITV X, I got a email back that they will be looking into it. so cross fingers.

Today they contacting me saying they can't add that episode due to Compliance reasons. so I just sent back, if you can't air a kids episode where no one dies then you stop airing the Towering Inferno then. which I've seen a few times since 2017.

Oh well, I just keep watching Inferno on Amazon Prime then.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Today is the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire, in which 72 people lost their lives. Cheap cladding used by corner cutting developers likely contributed to the severity of the fire and lives lost, but there have never been proper answers.

No justice! No peace!

[theroyalsandi]

The Prince of Wales during a visit to Loftus Road, the home of Queens Park Rangers in west London, ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, to hear how the club has provided invaluable support in the immediate aftermath and in the years since the fire, as well as meet some of the affected community who they have worked with. | May 26, 2023

[sussex-newswire]

"Even though she hasn't been a working royal since 2020, [Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's] efforts are still paying off for the Royal Foundation. According to the organization's annual report for 2023, [Meghan's] 2018 cookbook, Together: Our Community Cookbook, continues to bring cash into the royal coffers. The Duchess of Sussex created the book with a group of women who had been affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, a disaster that killed 72 people. Working with Hubb Community Kitchen, [Meghan] collected recipes and stories from the area after she took a 'quiet trip to Al-Manaar, a mosque close to the Grenfell community.' The book marked her first solo charity venture as a royal and even included some of her personal recipes.

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"Last year, the book earned approximately $111,850, according to Express. Since its 2018 release, however, the cookbook has raised a cumulative £911,000, roughly $1,205,420."

[londonedge]

Graffiti at the foot of Trelick Tower, North Kensington

Whilst some of the graffiti is completely random, the wall also contains the names of those who died in the nearby Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

On June 20, I'm keynoting the LOCUS AWARDS in OAKLAND.

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#15yrsago France’s three-strikes copyright rule is unconstitutional and hence dead https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/06/10/hadopi-is-dead-three-strikes-killed-by-highest-court/

#15yrsago The Brain that Changes Itself: hopeful book on the science of neuroplasticity https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/10/the-brain-that-changes-itself-hopeful-book-on-the-science-of-neuroplasticity/

#10yrsago National anti-censorship orgs protest cancellation of Little Brother summer reading program https://ncac.org/incident/little-brother-pensacola

#10yrsago Piketty’s inherited-wealth dystopia: private capital millionaires multiply https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27774753

#10yrsago How Heinlein went from socialist to right-wing libertarian https://newrepublic.com/article/118048/william-pattersons-robert-heinlein-biography-hagiography

#10yrsago Whistleblower org says it will go to jail rather than turning over its keys https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/to-defeat-encryption-feds-deploy-the-subpoena/

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#10yrsago Small town sheriff buys tank: “the United States of America has become a war zone” https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/06/07/police-officer-safety-surplus-zeal-military-equipment-spurs-debate-mrap-military-vehicle/10170225/

#5yrsago A grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a look at her panty liner, on Mother’s Day https://professional-troublemaker.com/2019/06/06/tsa-strip-searches-grandmother-on-mothers-day-for-over-feminine-hygiene-product-gets-sued/

#5yrsago A trove of leaks show that Brazil’s “anti-corruption” task force was secretly trying to oust Lula and install a far-right strongman https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/

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#5yrsago Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders https://www.zdnet.com/article/wave-of-sim-swapping-attacks-hit-us-cryptocurrency-users/

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#5yrsago On Grenfell’s second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grenfell-tower-fire-material-high-rise-buildings-flat-block-a8946276.html

#1yrago Links, dumped https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/10/in-the-dumps-2/#do-the-humpty-dump

[mariacallous]

David Cameron has provoked a wave of indignation from Grenfell fire survivors and housing campaigners after claiming that the inquiry agreed with him that fire regulations had not been part of his government’s “red tape drive” to cut regulations.

But campaigners said the former prime minister’s words were “bollocks” and “total bullshit”, since the inquiry report had explicitly said the effect of the Coalition government’s attack on red tape was that “even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded”.

Ed Daffarn, 62, a Grenfell tower resident who raised multiple concerns about fire safety before the fire, said he was “angry but not surprised”, and said Cameron was “failing to take responsibility”.

After Cameron’s government came to power in 2010, it created a “one in, one out” rule where new regulations could only come into force if another was scrapped, later becoming one in, two out and one in, three out.

Survivors of the Grenfell tower fire in June 2017 believe that the lack of regulations and ministers’ failure to act on a coroner’s report into a fire at Lakanal House, another London tower block, eight years earlier had contributed to the avoidable disaster that killed 72 people.

When the inquiry examined the issue, chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick took evidence from Eric Pickles, the housing secretary under Cameron, who made the claim that his prime minister’s “red tape challenge” had specifically excluded fire safety.

The inquiry report said it was “unable to accept his evidence” on the issue, which was “flatly contradicted by that of his officials and by the contemporaneous documents”.

Cameron’s government had excluded one part of fire regulations, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the inquiry found, but not building regulations and other documents which had a material impact on how construction firms approached fire safety concerns. Pickles’s remarks “served only to reveal the limits of his understanding” about the difference, it said.

In its summary, the inquiry was explicit that “the government’s deregulatory agenda, enthusiastically supported by some junior ministers and [Pickles],dominated the department [for community, housing and local government]’s thinking to such an extent that even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded.”

And it said the government “determinedly resisted calls from across the fire sector to regulate fire risk assessors and to amend the Fire Safety Order to make it clear that it applied to the exterior walls of buildings containing more than one set of domestic premises”.

The former prime minister chose to make his first statement since the report was published last Wednesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter, at 6pm on Friday evening.

Cameron said “all of us who have served in positions of power” had made mistakes and said he wanted to “echo” apologies by Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak to survivors and the community, saying: “the British state let you down”.

Yet he claimed: “The report is clear that fire safety and building safety regulations were explicitly excluded from the Coalition Government’s greatly-needed ‘red tape reviews’, given the importance we placed on safety and build quality. Indeed, the Coalition and post-2015 governments took steps to increase fire safety regulation.”

Pete Apps, who won the Orwell Prize for his book Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen, said Cameron’s statement was “demonstrably and very clearly total bullshit”.

“Cameron is making the same mistake Pickles did when giving evidence – conflating the regulatory reform order, which was exempt, with the building regulations, which weren’t,” he said, adding that the failures that contributed to Grenfell related to building regulations.

“Whoever wrote that statement for him either hasn’t read the report, has woefully misunderstood or is lying about its conclusions.”

Ed Daffarn, who survived the Grenfell fire, said Cameron and Pickles were acting in the same way as some of the corporations involved, denying culpability in the face of the inquiry’s findings and the impact of the ministerial drive to reduce regulation.

“I feel angry, but I’m not surprised,” said Daffarn. “The report is a damning indictment of a government that put UK plc before the health and safety of Grenfell. The result is that 72 people die because the regulations didn’t keep them safe.

“Cameron and Pickles are failing to take responsibility in the aftermath, despite the overwhelming evidence put before the inquiry and its findings.”

Giles Grover, co-leader of End Our Cladding Scandal, said “that’s bollocks” when told of Cameron’s comments.

“It was Cameron’s government’s focus on deregulation that played a key part in people’s homes not being safe,” Grover said. “His government wanted to ‘kill off the health and safety culture for good’ amid a ‘bonfire of red tape’, and this culture pervaded throughout government, including housing and building regulations, during his tenure as prime minister, whatever he may now wish to believe.”

The Grenfell Next of Kin group, which represents immediate bereaved families, said Cameron’s comments were “staggering”. A spokesperson for the group said: “Has he followed the inquiry or listened to the evidence? We heard quite clearly that from 2010 onwards the government pursued a drive that had a disdain for regulations.”

Masoumeh Samimi, 38, whose mother and aunt were killed in the fire on the 23rd floor, said: “David Cameron is talking without thinking, and his statement is ridiculous. They had a bonfire of regulations, with no regard to the lives of people.

“We buried the ashes of his “bonfire of regulation”. Samimi said she was told as recently as a year ago that police had found “another piece of bone” believed to be part of the remains of her mother.

Jennifer Frame, a former resident of Richmond House, which was destroyed by fire two years after Grenfell, said: “It is astonishing to see former prime ministers who held power and responsibility for the deregulatory culture which led to Grenfell trying to rewrite history to say they are blameless.

“This is just a continuation of the buck-passing and blame-shifting culture that was laid bare by the inquiry. If the political class cannot acknowledge their failings, then nothing will change.

“David Cameron boasted of cutting red tape, and he should not be surprised if the culture he presided over and the so-called ‘bonfire of regulations’ contributed to turning people’s homes into actual bonfires.”

[cicaklah]

oh yeah, I didn't mention this because I can only process one thing at a time at the moment. You'd think owning your home would not mean that you could get evicted but surprise! turns out I have to move out for two years.

the insane series of events is:

my flat blocks are built (2016)

grenfell tower burns down because of criminal cladding and 70 people die. (2017)

the UK starts taking fire safety seriously (kinda. maybe.)

I buy my flat (2021) and receive a certificate saying my flat is not a fire hazard - and am told that actually its fine, the cladding isn't dangerous but whoops! they built the firebreaks in the building wrong. they might have to do some fixes but shouldn't be too bad. teeeeeny tiny problem, barely worth mentioning

building owner starts to sue the people who built the building and the people who certified that the building was built correctly.

residents are told that the entire building has to be gutted down to the studs (july 2024) and we can either sell it back to the developer or move out and wait for the firebreaks to be fixed and the flats rebuilt

builders want to start before the end of the year so make a decision quickly.

its an easy decision for me because I'm single, work from home, and the company is going to pay for me to move and all my rent and everything and rebuild my flat to my specifications and probably paint it better than I did (not hard). also I don't have enough equity built up to buy another flat as nice as this one yet. but my neighbours are a different story. there's kids here, who have to go to school. One of my neighbours just sublet her flat and is going to australia for a year, after the developer told us that we could sublet. its a mess.

anyway if 2024 could please try and be a bit more predictable I'd be quite happy thanks.

[world-of-wales]

The Prince of Wales visited Queens Park Rangers' Loftus Road Football Stadium ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in London | 26 MAY 2023