4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Naomi Li is one of two residents from the 22nd floor who survived the fire. She described how she sheltered in a neighbour’s flat before deciding to try and escape down the stairs.
Hamid Wahbi lived on the 16th floor of Grenfell tower. He was the only one of his family at home on the night of the fire.
Written evidence was read out from other bereaved, survivors and residents.
Producers Kate Lamble and Elisabeth Mahy Researcher Olivia Beazley Contact us via email: [email protected]
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Eddie Mayor and this is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, reporting every day the inquiry sits. |
0:12.0 | Today, the inquiry had evidence from two residents on the upper levels of the building, on floors 16 and 22. |
0:19.9 | Naomi Lee lived in flat 195 on the 22nd floor with her husband Lee and her cousin, Lydia |
0:25.8 | Liao. |
0:26.9 | She had owned the leasehold to the flat since 2011. |
0:30.7 | Before the fire, Naomi remembers hearing the ventilation system in the building coming on |
0:35.0 | at random times. |
0:37.1 | Lead counsel to the inquiry, Richard Millett, read from her witness statement. |
0:40.9 | I could remember it going on continuously for a whole night on one occasion. |
0:45.5 | It is very noisy, and we could hear it from our flat. |
0:48.5 | We know that when the ventilation was on, the lift was shown as out of service. |
0:52.8 | When we heard ventilation, we always thought, |
0:54.7 | oh no, not again, because it affected us when the lifts were not working. It was at least as loud |
1:00.7 | as a vacuum cleaner. Leomy Lee and her husband regularly called the tenant management organisation, |
1:06.6 | who ran the building, to come and ask them to fix the system. After the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, |
1:13.2 | Leone Lee also had an issue with the new windows which had been installed. |
1:16.9 | You can see, they didn't seal it properly. |
1:20.8 | And it came to a really big problem when it was really cold one night, |
1:26.3 | and we just hear the whistling through all the windows. |
1:29.3 | And then we found out actually it's not only the side that they didn't seal properly, |
1:33.3 | it's underneath the entire frame underneath. There's actually a gap between the wall and the window frame. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.