Catapult report on deadly Grenfell Tower fire – ‘All deaths could have been avoided’

A public inquiry into the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 that killed 72 people today blamed failings by the government, the construction industry and, most notably, the companies involved in lining the building’s exterior with flammable material . Speaking a while ago in the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized on behalf of the British state. Seventy-two people died when a fire tore through 23 floors of the social housing complex in one of west London’s most affluent areas in the early hours of June 14, 2017. It was Britain’s deadliest residential building fire since WWII. World War. “The simple truth is that all the deaths could have been avoided,” said lead researcher Martin Moore-Bick. In its long-awaited final report, the inquiry places most of the blame for the disaster on the companies involved in the maintenance […]
Source: News Beast

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