The politician that allowed that should be roasted alive.

No way would this building pass code in the US. The whole building was a firetrap.

fully engulfed like that seemed like some ridiculously unrealistic movie version of a fire, or one in some underdeveloped country. It literally should not have been possible for it to spread so dramatically and go up like that.

In fact, reportedly the official instructions to residents were to remain in their apartments in the event of fire until the fire department evacuated them. Fortunately, most didn't trust them, and some are alive because of that.

Lots of building code violations and many were well known as tenants complained loudly and publicly.

There are entire families missing.

Is this simple neglect or state/local government terrorism?

Most of the people who got out that I saw interviewed said they heard no alarms at all. One man said he heard one on the second floor - which was not a residential floor - but it was very soft.

The other part of the story is that although building codes require fire walls between every floor and every apartment that are supposed to keep fire from traveling for up to 60 minutes, that protection was breached during the recent refurbishment and had not been reinstalled. Official policy is that residents should stay in their apartments during a fire with the assumption that the fire walls would protect them from spreading fires. So even for those who realized there was a problem, they may have followed the policy, not knowing that they did not have the mandated protection.

Why were there no alarms on the residential floors that were audible? Why none in the apartments? Even without the firewall protection that should have been in place, fire alarms would have saved lives IF the people had known that they needed to get out.

What a horrible tragedy. My heart breaks for all the victims, their family and friends, and all the first responders. I can't imagine what the firefighters are going through as they search for remains.

So touching that the queen and William visited a shelter.

list.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/manufacturer-of-cladding-on-grenfell-tower-identified-as-omnis-exteriors

Material used in the cladding that covered the Grenfell Tower was the cheaper, more flammable version of the two available options, an investigation of the supply chain has confirmed.

Omnis Exteriors manufactured the aluminium composite material (ACM) used in the cladding, a company director, John Cowley, confirmed to the Guardian.

He also said Omnis had been asked to supply Reynobond PE cladding, which is £2 cheaper per square metre than the alternative Reynobond FR, which stands for “fire resistant” to the companies that worked on refurbishing Grenfell Tower.
White cladding on Grenfell Tower. The supplier said it had been asked for Reynobond PE rather than FR – fire resistant

“We supplied components for a system created by the design and build team on that project,” said Cowley.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/at-least-30-dead-in-grenfell-tower-fire-say-police

So it's not a chimney but a bunch of blocks stacked up.

1980 for buildings over a certain height - this i worse than the Flint water scandal

savaged the poor and blamed it on immigrants. Maybe this will open some eyes...maybe elect a liberal. It is what they and we need...although don't think we can get more than a moderate right now sadly.

All for the rich but all opposition can be called terrorists.

People should go to prison for this.