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[–] ineedbettername 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Better picture from the article linked in OP

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[–] Lemongarb 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

People from 3rd world countries don't always understand simple safety. They probably had a cooking fire in their apartment.

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[–] BentAxel 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I don't know anything about this fire. I do know a lot about fire. To spread a fire up 27 stories from one source would have taken a LOT of fuel. Fuel can be: gasoline, untreated wood and siding. Lack of fire breaks in the walls. Untreated furniture. OR Time. From the looks of it, it looks like it filled all floors quickly, because a slower fire would burn itself out before moving to the next fuel source and it could be contained. I have been on 2000 square acre fires, it was 105 degrees, 6% humidity, August, started on a hillside, wind was making a chimney effect. It still took an hour to get there. And weeks to put it out.

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[–] Vhaine 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Im not saying muslims...but muslims.

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[–] doginventer 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

“The police aren’t telling us anything about it.”

Residents had warned that the building - which has around 120 flats reportedly served by a single main entrance - was a fire hazard last year when rubbish piled up in a communal walkway.

The Grenfell Action Group raised their concerns in a blog post last January, saying: “The potential for a fire to break out in the communal area on the walkway does not bear thinking about as residents would be trapped in the building with no way out.”

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/screaming-people-trapped-as-fire-engulfs-24storey-tower-block-in-notting-hill-a3564526.html

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[–] Kill-Commies ago 

Someone in another thread (who knows if they know anything) said it was mostly refugees who lived there.

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[–] doginventer ago 

No, from the way its being reported at this stage I'm not getting that impression. Only come across mentions of a recent council funded refurbishment, and this story about the rubbish in communal areas, who knows though, still very early to get much of an idea what's happened

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