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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 7:28:18 GMT
Bloody hell, turn the tv on for the early morning news and saw the tower block ablaze in London, looks like a scene from the film Towering Inferno, a lot of fatalities so they say. www.bbc.co.uk/newsThere is going to be massive fatalities and ehole family's gone. Devastating |
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Post by Monty on Jun 14, 2017 9:15:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 9:22:35 GMT
Could see it from my window at about 2am this morning, I live in S.E London so you can imagine how big it was.
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Post by CaajScot on Jun 14, 2017 9:28:38 GMT
The fire brigade guys must have guts of steel, how are they going to get inside and check for people and then try and work out how the fire started, there are fears the building may collapse.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 9:41:55 GMT
The fire has taken hold again right in the middle/top of the building. Surely they have to get the Firemen out, unfortunately you'd have to imagine there are no survivors left in there.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 10:07:51 GMT
Truly horrific. Feel so sad for anyone affected. I can't think of anything more terrifying.
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Post by WhatsTheMata on Jun 14, 2017 11:34:07 GMT
What a horrible thing  RIP all those who perished and may their families find strength and consolation to move on. |
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Post by dazjoe on Jun 14, 2017 21:54:07 GMT
Got to be honest, I get thoughts about shit like that happening at work or when I'm in a hotel.
Must be utterly terrifying, can't get out, can't go down (the stairwells were blocked they were saying), no point going up, stay in the room and likely die, jump and die (unless your bloody lucky enough to be on the bottom couple of floors).
I'm on the 28th floor at work, very modern building so you'd hope it would have none of the flaws associated with these older types and their cost cutting building equipment's, but you never know.
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Post by smithy2 on Jun 14, 2017 21:57:56 GMT
I lived in one of those type of buildings back in the late80s. I always worried about what I'd do in a fire, horrific
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Post by dazjoe on Jun 14, 2017 22:11:07 GMT
Makes me think as well, whenever we have our fire drills at work, you always see the same people get out of doing it. They either know when it's going to be (supposed to be secret but the time and date always gets out) and some always just happen to go down for a coffee just before it, or lodge medical reports to say they are unable.
No doubt some of those are genuine, but still, it's important to know exactly what to do if something like this should ever happen, rather than just be so fucking lazy you don't want to walk down those flights of stairs and then be the 1st ones running around panicking not knowing what to do if heaven forbid a fire were to break out. |
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Post by king nothing on Jun 15, 2017 4:52:30 GMT
I work in construction and we do a lot of apartment blocks. The majority of which only have one staircase. Some have sprinkler systems, but a lot don't. I often think about how people would escape if there was a fire in the staircase. Terrible tragedy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 6:37:10 GMT
From some of the eye witness accounts I've heard, they didn't even have a functioning fire alarm let alone a sprinkler system. It's always about costs at the end of the day. They say they can't regulate for proper systems because it would prevent people from building in the first place. It's bullshit of course, it's just a way of raking in more money whilst abdicating your responsibility to keep people properly safe.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 8:31:32 GMT
From some of the eye witness accounts I've heard, they didn't even have a functioning fire alarm let alone a sprinkler system. It's always about costs at the end of the day. They say they can't regulate for proper systems because it would prevent people from building in the first place. It's bullshit of course, it's just a way of raking in more money whilst abdicating your responsibility to keep people properly safe. For me there just aren't enough regulations on most things and profiteering is obscene in the world today. Someone, somewhere made a fuck tonne of money out of this building and lnew what they were doing. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 9:09:41 GMT
Scousers...have to make it about them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 11:08:35 GMT
17 confirmed now, 17 critical and they won't confirm how many are missing.
This is going to go up to and maybe beyond 100 deaths, gutting.
Heads must roll over this shit. We've rightly got outrage over terrorist attacks, but this potential cost-cutting and not listening to the people who lived there could well cause more deaths than the recent 3 attacks combined.
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