• Grenfell Tower residents warn: “People have had enough” - World Socialist Web Site

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/15/inte-j15-1.html

    Grenfell Tower residents warn: “People have had enough”
    By our reporters
    15 June 2017

    The World Socialist Web Site spoke to residents about the fire that gutted Grenfell Tower early Wednesday morning.

    Two young occupants, Siar and Mansoor, who were waiting outside police cordons, said, with tears in their eyes, that they lived on the 3rd floor and their uncle and his family lived on the 23rd floor.

    Siar described the horrific ordeal they had just suffered, saying, “We were not asleep because we were eating after the Ramadan day fast. That is what saved us. Had we been sleeping we would not have been woken by any fire alarms. The building had none, nor fire sprinklers nor emergency lighting in the corridors showing the way out.

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    London’s Grenfell Tower inferno: A crime against the working class - World Socialist Web Site

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/15/fire-j15.html

    London’s Grenfell Tower inferno: A crime against the working class
    By Laura Tiernan
    15 June 2017

    The fire that consumed #Grenfell_Tower block in west London early Tuesday morning has fuelled outrage among local residents and community groups, whose warnings of serious fire hazards were repeatedly ignored by council authorities.

    The catastrophic fire broke out shortly before 1:00 a.m., on the second floor of the council flats in Kensington. Flames quickly engulfed the 24-storey building that is home to an estimated 500 people.

    Twelve are confirmed dead, but the death toll is expected to rise. A

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