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Tonight at Ten: There's to be a full public inquiry into the fire that | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
destroyed Grenfell Tower - this residential | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
So far the number of dead stands at 17, but many people | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
are still missing and the number could rise significantly | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
It's the upper floors that will be more challenging and will need some | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
additional shoring for us to be able to get in there. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The size of this building, it could take weeks. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
I want to be realistic - this is a very long process. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
The first victim has been named as Mohammad Alhajali, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
a Syrian refugee studying engineering whose brother | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
was rescued from the same flat by the fire brigade. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
They brought us outside - I thought you were with us." | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
He said, "No one brought me outside." | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Dozens of people are still listed as missing, as appeals | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
are made by families and friends for information. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Jessica is a 12-year-old vibrant young girl who will be | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
She's a lovely little girl with a bubbly personality. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
We are just worried and concerned about her and we just want her home. | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
In the local community the profound shock and grief are still evident, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
but there's growing anger - and a demand for answers. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
At the moment, we're grieving but there's a bubbling anger | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
underneath and we do want to see someone held accountable for this. | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
The Prime Minister made a private visit to the scene and later | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
announced the public inquiry into the disaster. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
We need to have an explanation of this. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
We owe that to the families, to the people who have lost | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
loved ones, friends, and the homes in which they lived. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
And we'll be reporting on the work of the fire fighters - | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
and what they've had to face in the past 48 hours. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - India have reached the ICC | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Champions Trophy final after thrashing Bangladesh. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
They'll meet Pakistan in Sunday's final. | :02:16. | :02:38. | |
Good evening from West London, where the prime minister came | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
earlier today to see the devastation caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
- and then promised a full public inquiry into what happened. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
The fire which destroyed this residential housing block | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
in the early hours of yesterday morning spread very quickly, | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
and the number of dead confirmed so far is 17 - | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
though that figure is expected to rise. | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
The emergency services say it will take weeks to complete a full | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
And there's a sense of growing anger in the local community | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Our first report on the latest on the tower block fire | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
is by our home editor, Mark Easton. | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
A warning - there are some distressing details in his report. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
Slowly, inch by painstaking inch, fire officers continue their grim | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Amid the soot-blackened shell of what was once home to hundreds | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Exactly how many, we do not know, but police today said they hoped | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
the final death toll would not be in three figures. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
The scale of this tragedy is yet to become clear. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Sadly I can confirm the number of people who have died is now 17. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
We do believe that that number will sadly increase. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
There are 37 people receiving treatment, of which 17 | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
The brother of these two Syrians was one of those who lost his life. | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
Mohammed Alhajali was an engineering student seeking | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
Omar was with him as firemen tried to evacuate the blazing building | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
I looked behind me, I could not see my brother. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
I said, my brother, my brother, where is he? | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
I thought they took him outside with me. | :04:33. | :05:00. | |
Younger brother Hashim continued to talk to Mohammed on his mobile | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
He said, please tell mum to pray for me. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
I said, no, who has a problem with you? | :05:15. | :05:30. | |
Relatives of five-year-old Isaac Paulos confirmed today | :05:31. | :05:50. | |
that the little boy was among those who died in the fire. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
The agony of a wounded neighbourhood is written on a wall, | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
the desperation of people searching for family and friends. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Prayers and solace from near and far. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
For the last two days, Jason Garcia has been searching | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
for his 12-year-old cousin Jessica Urbano. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
We are hoping that, by putting up posters, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
sharing her image on social media, and talking to people | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
like yourself, that maybe someone with information will get in touch. | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
This evening, Jessica's parents and friends gathered together | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
in a community that is craving answers but complains | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
At the moment we are grieving, but there is a bubbling anger | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
underneath and we want to see somebody held accountable for this. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
The love and generosity that has poured into North Kensington | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
in the last couple of days cannot make up for the numbing | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
The Prime Minister made a private visit to the scene today, | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
speaking to emergency workers before announcing there will be a full | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
When I spoke to the emergency services, they told me the way this | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
fire progressed and how it took hold of the building was rapid, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
We have to get to the bottom of this. | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
The truth has got to come out, and it will. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also went in North Kensington, insisting | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
he would speak up for the community. Shock and grief are being joined | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
by outrage and anger. The questions are raining down, | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
rather like the charred lumps of cladding, which locals | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
are holding up as possible evidence that people were housed | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
in a preventable death trap. This tower block fire looks just | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
like North Kensington. They came in and said, "Get out, | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
get out, evacuate now." But it was three years ago | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
in Melbourne, Australia. And the similarities | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
do not stop there. Those of us who have been around | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
for 30 years or more have never seen In my 29 years in the London Fire | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Brigade, I have never seen a fire of this nature, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
and I have seen many Attention in Australia focused | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
on the building's aluminium cladding, an enquiry blaming cheaper | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
plastic fibre backed cladding rather The same distinction is being made | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
about Grenfell Tower, although the authorities insist | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
building regulations were followed. London Mayor Sadiq Khan was heckled | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
by a small group of people Understandably, the residents | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
are very angry and concerned and have genuine questions that | :08:29. | :08:40. | |
demand answers and so whereas... Someone needs to be | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
held accountable. These deaths could | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
have been prevented! The concerns are not just | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
about what went wrong in North Kensington, | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
they are also about what could go wrong in thousands of tower | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
blocks across Britain. Residents at Trellick Tower, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
who can see Grenfell Tower from their balconies, | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
now have a constant and disturbing reminder of the risks | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
of high-rise living. Mark Easton, BBC News, North | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
Kensington. There were hundreds of people | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
in the building when the fire started, and many families | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
are waiting anxiously for news about their loved ones | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
and posting notices locally The police warned today | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
that they may never be able Our special correspondent | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Lucy Manning reports now on the families' | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
search for relatives. You may find some of | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
the details upsetting. Mohammed Hakim fears | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
he's lost everyone - his mother, father, two | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
brothers and sister. All his extended family | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
supporting him now rushed to the fire when the calls | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
of panic came. I spoke to her and the last few | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
words she said to me was, "Please forgive me if I've said | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
anything to upset you or hurt you. I don't think we're going to make it | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
out of the building." They were supposed to be | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
celebrating next month. His sister, Husna, was getting | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
married, but the entire family And it was just heartbreaking, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
and then it just cut out. She was, like, we're not | :10:12. | :10:24. | |
going to make it, we can't make it, I kept saying, try and put things | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
under the door to stop the smoke coming in and get as low as you can | :10:29. | :10:37. | |
and open the windows. Someone's going to come, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
call the Fire Brigade, do something. All I could hear was this crackling | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
noise in the background, because the phone was still on, | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
but she wasn't saying anything. I really need to find | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
out where they are. The family stood helpless outside, | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
unable to rescue them. This is the worst thing | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
I remember in my life. He kept shouting, "Please, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
help us, get us out." He was saying Allah's | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
name, and all this. Mohammed, it must be extremely | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
difficult, just not knowing? Not losing one member of my family, | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
but losing all five, I don't have my parents any more | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
and you only get one set They are all gone, in the space | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
of a couple of hours, after leaving their house, | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
they are all gone. And no-one wants to give us any | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
information about their whereabouts, if they are still within | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
the building, or not. They still have hope, | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
but feel bereft of help. Adel Chaoui is another relative deep | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
in grief and frustration. Baby Leena Belkadi, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
just six months old, is missing, along with her mum, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Farah, and her dad, Omar. They eventually found two | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
of the baby's sisters in hospital. We cajoled and begged a nurse to go | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
upstairs and after ten minutes, one of them offered to do | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
so and came down and told us they had a child that | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
matched the description, did we want to come | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
up and have a look. We found one of the children | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
there, the younger. My brother's looking around, | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
and he's staring at another bed. And asks Farah's older | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
sister to have a look. Farah's older sister says, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
"That's the other child, They were beds apart and nobody | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
in authority was making any So many families here | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
are looking, hoping, Throughout the day people living | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
in this community have been expressing anger and frustration, | :13:01. | :13:13. | |
demanding to know who would be held accountable for the tragedy, | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
while the search for missing Our correspondent Fergus Walsh | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
reports now on those still missing Hour by hour, the roll | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
call of the missing Friends and relatives, | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
desperate for information, have posted photos and messages | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
on social media. Many children are among | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
those unaccounted for. 11-year-old Fidoz Kadir | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
and his 13-year-old brother Yaya lived on the 20th floor | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
with their parents and Fatima, Mirna, and three-year-old | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Zainab Choucair also lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
with their parents and grandmother. Birktee Haftam and her 12-year-old | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
son Birup lived on the 18th floor. Relatives have said they have | :14:09. | :14:18. | |
visited every hospital treating Zainab Dean lived on the 14th floor | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
with her two-year-old son Jeremiah. She called her brother | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
and said she had been told Mirania Ibrahim and her two | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
daughters, five-year-old Fatiya and Hanya, who is three, | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
were on the 23rd floor. The 30-year-old posted | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
footage on social media from the smoke-filled landing before | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
going back in her flat. Khadija Saye on the left | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
is a 24-year-old photographer whose work is on show at the Venice | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Biennale. She lived on the 20th floor | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
with her mother Mary Mendy. Gloria Trevisan, an architect, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
and her partner Marco They had only recently moved | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
into a flat on the 23rd floor. They were unable to get out | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
and called their relatives at 4am A family lawyer said there is no | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
hope of finding them alive. More names, more faces | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
are still to come. Behind every picture | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
there is a family, friends and loved ones searching, | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
hoping and in some And Fergus is at St Mary's | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
hospital in Paddington now with an update for us on those | :15:37. | :15:48. | |
who are being treated. Tonight I can tell you that 30 | :15:49. | :16:04. | |
patients are being treated across four hospitals. 15 of those are in | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
critical care. All have been identified and their relatives are | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
with them. The main injury that is being treated is from breathing in | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
smoke. That can cause inflammation of the airwaves and in some cases it | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
is so serious that the patients have been given a general anaesthetic and | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
have been put into an induced medical coma and that gives time for | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
their airwaves to heal. Another problem is carbon monoxide | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
poisoning. Although that can be serious, by giving the page as | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
oxygen, that can be successfully treated. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
There's an emergency number for anyone concerned | :16:48. | :16:48. | |
The Metropolitan Police Casualty Bureau can be | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
In North Kensington is our home editor Mark Easton. You have been | :16:56. | :17:18. | |
talking to a lot of people today. The mood has changed during the day, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
how do you sense it? There is anger in the air and frustration right now | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
at what many people see as a lack of organisation and coordination. There | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
are people to night sleeping on the floor on mattresses in a local | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
sports centre. The council says they have provided emergency, temporary | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
accommodation to 79 households. They have focused on elderly people and | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
families with young children. But there are hundreds by some | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
estimates, thousands of people, who have been made homeless not only | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
from the tower behind us but from other buildings that have had to be | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
evacuated. We are being told by the emergency services that this tragedy | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
is far from over. The harrowing job of going through the building and | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
identifying the bodies will take not just days, but weeks. I think we can | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
say that this story will be dominating our news and our politics | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
and it will be providing a black backdrop to our lives going into the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
summer. Thank you for now. Maybe we will have another word before the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
end of the programme. Let's talk a little more about the government | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
As we've heard, both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
And at Westminster, MPs questioned the minister for policing | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
and the Fire Service, Nick Hurd. | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
He described what happened here as "a national tragedy". | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
The Labour MP David Lammy - one of whose friends | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
is still missing - called for a criminal investigation. | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
The Prime Minister met firefighters who have given | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
everything at Grenfell, but none of the families that have | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
She met volunteers on the ground, but returning to Number 10, | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
the focus today, getting help to those that need it. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
The Government stands ready to provide every assistance | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
necessary to the emergency services and to the local authority. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
I know we've all heard absolutely heartbreaking, | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
as I did this morning, heartbreaking stories of the people | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
that were caught up in this terrible, terrible tragedy. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
The Labour leader was on hand in a local church, hearing fears... | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Somebody has to be held accountable, somebody has to be held responsible. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
We do not want this kicked into the long grass. | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
We do not want the Government to hide this with some | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
hollow platitudes that lessons will be learned. | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
They knew. They knew that Grenfell was unsafe. | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
We cannot allow people to live in a dangerous state, | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
and that is a worry, but the resources have to be found | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
and we will demand and make sure those resources are found. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
With worries for people who live in similar blocks | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
and so much still unknown, MPs demanded a meeting | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
When we talk about this as a tragedy, we're talking about it | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
The truth is, it wasn't some natural disaster. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
We look to you both, as ministers, to leave no stone unturned | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
in getting justice and getting to the bottom of this. | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
It's really important that there is utter clarity today | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
about whether people should stay in their flats in the event | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
of another horrific fire, which could happen this afternoon, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
as we speak here, or whether they should leave. | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
I would like to see the minister putting resources into the Fire | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Service to make sure they have the resources to do full inspections of | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
all the other blocks across the country within the next week. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
The Government did promise all the survivors would get | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
We have to act and think as if it was our friends, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
We have to have that emotional connection with what is going on, | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
because there is no room for cool, detached, plodding bureaucracy. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Yet only those that lost their beds, their homes and their loved ones | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
We have heard already about anger, resentment and frustration directed | :21:31. | :21:46. | |
at some authorities and government. How is that being seen at | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Westminster? At Westminster politicians are very well aware that | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
kind of sentiment may develop very fast. The government has a very | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
complicated to do less. The immediate priorities is making sure | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
help is getting quickly to where it is needed most, release extra cash | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
for the Council. Emergency funding has been put in place. Thirdly, the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
government has acted quickly to announce a full public enquiry and | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the Prime Minister wants that to get going without delay. But at | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Westminster there is a depressing sense that any inquiry beyond | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
looking at the particularities of what actually happened is likely to | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
reveal a picture of successive governments simply not prepared to | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
put enough political effort, time or energy into making sure this kind of | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
housing is up to scratch. Of course there are huge layers of | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
regulations, there are different layers of accountability. Housing | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
associations, the individual council before you get to central | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
government, but in Westminster there is that sentiment that ultimately a | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
picture will be painted that politicians have for a long time | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
just not paid enough attention to this kind of issue. For any | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
government this kind of big, national tragedy is required to deal | :23:07. | :23:15. | |
with a huge sensitivity and nimbleness, but right now this is an | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
extremely fragile government. The State Opening of Parliament is not | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
under way and Theresa May is only just days after a bruising political | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
defeat. So the complexity of a situation like this is a huge | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
political risk for number ten in particular. While Theresa May's team | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
believe she made the decision not to visit residents and families of the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
victims of this tragedy, they think they made those decisions for the | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
right reasons, they did not want to get in the way, they wanted to allow | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
the emergency effort to carry on not impeded and it is not her style to | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
have television cameras trailing her every move, but with the mood is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
developing that decision could prove to be a miscalculation. Events like | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
this can require real displays of empathy rather than just a | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
concentration of getting on with the job. Many thanks. As Laura was | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
saying, the government was saying the public enquiry will deal with | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
all aspects of what happened and insists Downing Street completely | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
understand the shock and anger felt by many people. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
There are many questions outstanding for the local authority, | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
builders, and subcontractors, as well as the company that | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
Our correspondent Tom Symonds reports on the investigations that | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
will take place into the causes of the fire - and why | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Grenfell Tower showing its age a few years ago. It was built in the 1960s | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
and recently it was refurbished. New cladding and windows were added, | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
standard treatment given to tower is all over the country. So why this? | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
How did it start? Why did it spread so fast? It is clear something went | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
badly wrong. Colin Todd wrote the guidelines Council 's use when | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
considering fire safety in tower blocks. I have been in fire safety | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
for 41 years and never seen a fire of this nature in terms of speed of | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
spread and extent of development. Investigators' first priority will | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
be to find out how it managed to spread so quickly and without any | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
containment. These are the plans for the renovation of the tower. They | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
include cladding panels and insulation fixed to its walls, part | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
of a system of components designed to contain any fire. The panels do | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
not have to be completely fireproof, but the system is supposed to slow | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
down the spread of flames. The aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
suggests the opposite happened. Harley facades is responsible for | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the cladding, its materials and is fitting. Was the work properly | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
completed? The company says it is not aware of any link to the fire. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Ride and manage the project and insists it met all the relevant | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
safety standards. The Kensington and Chelsea management association | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
manages the tower and it submitted a planning application which will be | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
scrutinised closely. And the borough council owns the building. It agreed | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the planning application and was responsible for signing of the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
completed work. The council will be at the centre of various enquiries. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
All the companies involved face intense scrutiny of their work and | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
of the specifications and which it was carried out. This is a family | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
firm and the staff here are devastated over what happened, and | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
they say they will work closely with the various investigations. The | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
London Fire Brigade today used a drone to examine the wreckage and is | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
leading those enquiries. Its teams will have to work out the cause of | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
the fire. One theory among residents is that a faulty fridge was the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
spark. If there is evidence of arson or negligence, the police will step | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
in and there is a possibility companies could be prosecuted for | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
manslaughter. But the government's announcement of a public enquiry | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
places the Grenfell Tower disaster alongside an event like | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
Hillsborough. Then 96 died. Today the police said they hoped the | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
number of lost lives would not reach three figures. | :27:31. | :27:31. | |
The recently-appointed housing minister Alok Sharma has said | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
the government's started talking to local authorities and housing | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
associations about how they will ensure that the homes | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
But there are still questions about how ministers have responded | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Our science editor David Shukman has been looking as some of the safety | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
issues that have been raised in the past - and reports on the | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
The London fire has triggered concern right across the country. | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
In Belfast, fire safety leaflets are being handed out | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
Suddenly there's intense scrutiny at every detail of the arrangements | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
There are now questions about safety in all tower blocks, | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
but with a particular focus on the ones that have been | :28:19. | :28:20. | |
Experts point to fires like this one, in Southampton, in 2010, | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
where two firefighters died, and where the installation | :28:26. | :28:27. | |
of sprinklers might have made all the difference. | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
People don't die in sprinkler buildings. | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
A single death in a sprinkler building is a very, very rare event | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
One of many tragic aspects of this tower block disaster is that | :28:37. | :28:45. | |
for years experts have warned of the dangers of fire. | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
Back in 2013, a coroner called for sprinklers to be fitted | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
A fire in south London had killed six people, | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
but the recommendation wasn't followed - and sprinklers | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
are usually only installed in new buildings. | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
Next, having just one staircase - like in Grenfell Tower - | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
has repeatedly been criticised as a hazard, limiting the chance | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
for people to escape and for firefighters to get in. | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
And there have long been concerns about cladding - | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
the panels fitted outside the buildings. | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
These are usually metal with a layer of insulating material. | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
Back in 1991, the rules about them were tightened, | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
but regulations do not require that the panels should never burn. | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
Some critics say the current system of testing them | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
The cladding at Lakanal House in south London was judged to have | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
It was hoped back then that out of this tragedy | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
would come a turning point, leading to safer the conditions | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
But promised reforms never happened and the lawyer who represented | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
the victims' families says that this time the authorities must | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
We don't want the same situation as in Lakanal House, | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
where things dragged on and on and on and then it just | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
fell off the public agenda and then the public enquiry didn't happen. | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
It was only an inquest and then nobody listened. | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
This time the government must listen, and maybe, | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
as others have said, maybe heads need to roll too. | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
Tonight in North London, a tower block, fitted with cladding | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
by the same company, Rydon, that worked | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
It said again today that it followed every building regulation. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
We don't know what the cladding is made of, but everybody now | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
is concerned and very paranoid since what's happened | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
We're worried about what is going to happen to us as well. | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
Last night I couldn't sleep very well. | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
I'm very shocked with my mum and my kids as well. | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
It may be that the horror at Grenfell Tower will bring real | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
change, but this involves challenges that will be expensive | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
Among them, getting more money to local councils, | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
reviewing how towers are renovated, and overhauling the | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
As we've heard, the government has said every family | :31:14. | :31:21. | |
from Grenfell Tower will be rehoused in the local area. | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
In the meantime, former residents have been staying in hotels | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
and in emergency accommodation at a sports centre. | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
Local churches have been offering food, drink and clothing, | :31:34. | :31:35. | |
but community groups say that so much has been given that people | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
should donate only if they see appeals for specific items. | :31:39. | :31:43. | |
Our correspondent Elaine Dunkley has the latest | :31:44. | :31:44. | |
From all over the country, donations are arriving - | :31:45. | :31:54. | |
Many have not slept since the fire destroyed homes. | :31:55. | :32:03. | |
We are working under an umbrella of humanity, | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
so that communities do come together. | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
There were Muslim people donating to churches, | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
It's just a network of not races, not colours, not anything, | :32:14. | :32:25. | |
Many people felt helpless as they watched the tower block on fire. | :32:26. | :32:33. | |
Donating food and clothes is helping this community heal. | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
I lived in New York when the towers came down. | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
Just, generally, you want to help, you want to do whatever you can. | :32:41. | :32:49. | |
But as well as generosity, there is frustration that food | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
and clothes are being left on the street. | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
We're trying to create a central base here. | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
He's organised a sorting facility to take collections. | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
We don't want any bags left on the street that's been sent | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
I don't think people need to send so much stuff any more. | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
But people need to support the community in whatever | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
In the midst of this horror and destruction, | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
There's a bit of upliftment, a bit of seeing that we have a lot | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
Clothes are going here, food only is going there. | :33:28. | :33:40. | |
As more boxes arrive, those who are trying to help | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
are feeling overwhelmed and say the council could do more | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
to organise collections, volunteers and storage. | :33:46. | :33:50. | |
But I've got to say, the council sort of dragged their feet a lot. | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
We've just come to help, and there hasn't been | :33:56. | :33:59. | |
any contingency plans, there hasn't been any strategies. | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
I've got a week off, and I've just given my time | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
But there are so many people here, and I'm just waiting for somebody | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
The local authority says it is trying to manage donations, | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
but says the priority is finding homes for vulnerable families. | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
How do you respond to the criticism from people around here | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
that the council hasn't done enough to help? | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
Well, I'm sorry there is that criticism. | :34:26. | :34:27. | |
In fact, we were very quick to set up three emergency | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
They are staffed by council staff, who have expertise in looking | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
after younger people, older people with particular | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
Tonight, most residents are in temporary accommodation. | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
For now, there are enough provisions. | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
What people need is a roof over their heads. | :34:46. | :34:54. | |
Every few minutes you will see an act of kindness here, despite the | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
anger and despite the despair. People haven't just been donating | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
boxes of food and clothing. People have also been offering emotional | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
support, whether that's giving someone a hug, all holding someone's | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
hand. Earlier this evening hundreds of residents attended vigil and all | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
day today, people have been coming along to this wall to leave | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
messages. There are also flowers on the floor. Every bit of space on | :35:19. | :35:27. | |
this wall, there's a message to a loved one more to the people on this | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
community. The writing on this wall is in so many different languages | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
and that very much reflects the multicultural nature of this area. | :35:33. | :35:34. | |
Many different people from different faiths and different backgrounds | :35:35. | :35:37. | |
coming together to express their grief. They've had to put up more | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
boards. This now stretches all the way around the building and also | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
along the fence, so people can leave tributes here. This area has now | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
become a shrine to a community trying to stay strong. | :35:49. | :35:55. | |
Elaine Dunkley forums with the latest on the tributes that are | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
being left in the streets around this area in North Kensington. A | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
little later we'll be talking about the exceptional work of the | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
firefighters in this area over the past 48 hours. That's in a few | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
minutes' time but now let's join Clive for the rest of the day's | :36:14. | :36:14. | |
news. Well, the annual Mansion House | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
dinner in the City of London, which was due to take place this | :36:19. | :36:21. | |
evening, has been cancelled as a result | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The organisers made the decision | :36:25. | :36:26. | |
shortly after the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, withdrew | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
from the event where he was expected to offer reassurances to businesses | :36:29. | :36:30. | |
worried about the impact of Brexit. The Treasury says the Chancellor | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
will address those issues at what it called a suitable time | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
in the near future. Our Economics Editor Kamal Ahmed | :36:37. | :36:38. | |
is here and, Kamal, we were expecting a significant | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
intervention from the Chancellor We were, but understandably the | :36:42. | :36:51. | |
normal run of news events has been postponed, given the events of the | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
last two days. But as you say the Treasury say the speech will happen, | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
when it's appropriate. And as you say as well, it was going to be a | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
speech which may be revealed a slightly softer tone towards the | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
whole Brexit negotiations than the tone we heard before the referendum. | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
We are told the Brexit negotiations will start on Monday, despite the | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
events of the last 48 hours, so those negotiations will begin. I'm | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
sure that Mr Hammond will make his speech in the next few days. Two | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
significant announcements were made today about the economy. Firstly, | :37:27. | :37:34. | |
that retail sales have slowed to their lowest level for four years, | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
which shows that income squeezed that people have been suffering | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
because of higher inflation is really with this. One other | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
significant moment is that the Bank, although it has held interest rates | :37:48. | :37:50. | |
at the historic low levels that they've been up since the financial | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
crisis, it was the closest votes raising those interest rates that | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
we've had in ten years. Just 5-3 votes, very close, the suggestion | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
being that interest rate rises because of rising inflation could be | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
coming. Any rise will be limited and gradual, but the Bank is signalling | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
those historic low interest rates could be coming to an end. Kamal | :38:13. | :38:14. | |
Ahmed, many thanks. Theresa May has been | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
meeting the main political parties of Northern Ireland | :38:18. | :38:19. | |
at Downing Street to try to reassure them that a proposed deal | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
between the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionists | :38:23. | :38:24. | |
wouldn't affect the prospects of The Prime Minister hopes to secure | :38:25. | :38:26. | |
the support of the DUP to give her government a working | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
majority in Parliament, but critics have warned any deal | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
could create a conflict of interest as the Good Friday Agreement commits | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
the British government to demonstrate "rigorous | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
impartiality" in its dealings The owner of British Airways, IAG, | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
has said last month's computer failure which caused passenger chaos | :38:43. | :38:51. | |
will cost the company More than 700 flights were cancelled | :38:52. | :39:05. | |
over three days. The Chief Executive, Willie Walsh, told the | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
firm's annual general meeting it had been a dreadful experience for | :39:10. | :39:10. | |
customers. A drug that can extend the life | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
of patients with breast cancer, has been approved for use | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
on the NHS in England. Kadcyla had been deemed too | :39:18. | :39:19. | |
expensive, but now an agreement has been reached with the manufacturer | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
Roche, which the NHS says provides "a good deal" | :39:23. | :39:24. | |
for patients and taxpayers. Now, let's rejoin | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
Huw in West London. Throughout the day more | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
accounts have been shared of the exceptional bravery, | :39:36. | :39:37. | |
and stories of extraordinary More than 200 firefighters | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
tackled the fire yesterday, entering the building | :39:43. | :39:45. | |
when it was still burning as they tried to help | :39:46. | :39:47. | |
those who were trapped. They're now involved | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
in the recovery operation. Tonight, we've spotted one or two | :39:51. | :40:01. | |
firefighters in the building as we speak. | :40:02. | :40:03. | |
Our correspondent Sarah Campbell reports on the firefighters | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
and the impact this fire has had on them. | :40:06. | :40:07. | |
It is impossible to imagine how anyone would willingly run | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
into this, but that is exactly what more than 200 firefighters did. | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
The main thing with this building on the night was the speed the fire | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
moved from the bottom up to the top and the thick black smoke | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
that filled the air, that filled the building. | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
We have also got people, quite rightly, trying to get out | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
of the building quickly as we were trying to get in. | :40:37. | :40:38. | |
I have never seen a fire on this scale in my whole career, no. | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
I have seen lots of fires in the London Fire Brigade | :40:45. | :40:46. | |
Exhausted, having spent hours tackling a fire which has been | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
described as unprecedented in its scale, and the work | :40:51. | :40:53. | |
Now comes the task of making the building safe enough to allow | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
You have had a chance to speak to some of those involved. | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
How are they doing if not physically but mentally? | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
I have spoken to quite a few people, they are OK. | :41:09. | :41:11. | |
The main thing is they are tired, but they are so keen to ensure | :41:12. | :41:14. | |
They were on duty again, a lot of them were on duty last night, | :41:15. | :41:23. | |
some of them will be on duty tonight, and they want to come back. | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
Thankfully only a handful of firefighters received | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
The mental scars from what they saw and heard may take longer to heal. | :41:31. | :41:37. | |
People have coping mechanisms in all sorts of ways and the most | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
obvious one is the support of your colleagues who have been | :41:41. | :41:43. | |
But clearly the scale of this and the sort of horrors that people | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
have seen means that they will need to be watched and they will need | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
to be supported and that will need professional support. | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
There is anger here with many local people feeling let | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
down by the authorities, but there is thanks too for those | :42:00. | :42:02. | |
willing to put their lives on the line to save others. | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
They went in to try and save people in that. | :42:07. | :42:14. | |
Our correspondent Sarah Campbell reporting there. | :42:15. | :42:29. | |
Reporting on the exceptional courage and firefighters of the past 48 | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
hours. Mark Easton is with me. Throughout the day people beginning | :42:37. | :42:40. | |
to look at precisely what the technical requirements are buildings | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
and asking very searching questions about how this could have happened. | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
Indeed, the more we learn, the more questions there seem to be. Not | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
least, here we are in one of the richest boroughs in one of the | :42:56. | :42:58. | |
richest cities in one of the richest countries in the world and yet | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
hundreds of people are housed in a tower block that cannot withstand a | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
small fire in one person's flat. And of course it's hugely important that | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
a building like that is there. It's supposed to be building regulations, | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
there are supposed to be housing regulations. We believed those would | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
be enough to keep people safe and the kind of people who are housed in | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
the often vulnerable. They are people with disabilities, elderly | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
people, families with babies and young children. We look to our local | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
authorities and other agencies to ensure that those people are kept | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
safe and that no corners are cut. And I think people are asking | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
questions now, can it be that that safety was perhaps compromised in a | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
drive for efficiency, for savings, for cutting red tape? Those are the | :43:47. | :43:49. | |
questions the community is asking now, and I think they'll still be | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
asking those questions in the days, the month and quite probably the | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
years to come. Mark Easton, our home editor. That's all from West London, | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
from North Kensington tonight. There's more coverage for you on the | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
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