Huge fire engulfs Latimer Road tower block in London

Someone's fridge caught fire. I don't know how that would work but ok. It is horrible and shows the downside of building upwards.

It isn't the cladding as such that is flammable - it depends on the material used inside it.

The issue would have been cost, but they worked within the budget assigned to them by the Tory council. Clearly this was insufficient.

Fridge Freezers are the most common cause of electrical fires. Switch contacts burn out resulting in a small fire that catches the plastic and foam insulation. The fire spreads to the hydrocarbon based coolant which is highly flammable and pressurised causing a small explosion, spreading flammable material which than ignites other materials in the vicinity. Chip board/wood kitchen units, wooden flooring, etc.

Beko and other cheap brands are common.

I know of hardly anyone that keeps a fire blanket or extinguishers in their home.

I'm sure the many poor families who live there could have afforded an increase to help rectify the shortfall in local authority spending.

I am sure they could and should but give them and representatives like them the choice and they would rather spent it on food or rent or electricity or children's' toys or travel or any of the myriad other costs that bear down upon anyone short of money.

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Sounds like a variant on the theory of the undeserving poor to me.

sounds like nulli's positing a tragedy of the commons / tyranny of small decisions chain of events eventually leading to the creation of a deathtrap.
It makes sense that poor people are going to avoid additional expense but TBH everyone including the well off can always find a reason not to pony up their fair share, I've seen unadopted roads with 2 range rovers on every drive where the road surface is a third world grade pothole festival which no one's taken the slightest effort to repair for years.

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My uninformed speculation is that the cladding is at fault... the safety case for buildings of this type (60's tower blocks) is that the dwellings are fireproof concrete boxes which fire will not spread between if the door is closed. IMO it must have worked since it's inconceivable that chip pan fires didn't occur in these buildings during the decades before chip pans were replaced by thermostatic fryers, without the whole block going up in flames.

Over the past decade or so I've noticed cladding rapidly appearing on old tower blocks all over the country, it clearly became quite an industry - I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of grant or subsidy involved. I wonder if we're about to see all that cladding being removed equally rapidly.

My uninformed speculation is that the cladding is at fault... the safety case for buildings of this type (60's tower blocks) is that the dwellings are fireproof concrete boxes which fire will not spread between if the door is closed. IMO it must have worked since it's inconceivable that chip pan fires didn't occur in these buildings during the decades before chip pans were replaced by thermostatic fryers, without the whole block going up in flames.

They need to start suing where there is blame there is a claim.

Unfortunately, compensation is big business - and the people caught up in this have every right to expect justice.

However, I expect some unscrupulous claims companies seeking 'justice' will have already started contacting residents.

You can be sure that quite a few lawyers (not to mention building contractors) are going to make an awful lot of money out of this for a long time to come.

And it will be the taxpayer who ends up footing the great majority of the bill.

And here you are politicising a fire.

Delete your account.

I believe that it was probably an electrical fire given the age of building.

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Can we not have the xenophobic and racist bull **** in a thread about a horrific disaster?