Episode 212: The Grenfell Tower fire - part three
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It was just a little house fire. It should have gone out in no time. In a safer building, it would have. But within an hour and a half of the first call to 999 that night, Grenfell Tower was fully ablaze.
Videos:
- Grenfell: The Fire of London
- Grenfell: The Worst Tower Block Fire in London History
- Grenfell Tower tragedy in 3D
- 12 Firefighters have Terminal Cancer Since 2017 Rescue
- First Reports of Grenfell Tower fire
- New video timeline shows how the Grenfell Tower fire unfolded
- What Happened With The Cladding At Grenfell Tower?
Articles and books:
- Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen, by Peter Apps
- Grenfell Tower inferno a 'disaster waiting to happen' as concerns are raised for safety of other buildings
- Concerns raised about Grenfell Tower 'for years'
- Fire alarm at Grenfell Tower was never meant for residents
- Grenfell: Cladding firm suggested use of cheaper panels
- Grenfell Tower refurbishment used cheaper cladding and tenants accused builders of shoddy workmanship
- Residents warned of 'catastrophic' Grenfell Tower block fire three years ago - but pleas 'fell on deaf ears'
- Faulty tumble dryer 'caused Shepherd's Bush tower block fire'
- Twenty-seven minutes and Grenfell Tower fire had taken hold: so why weren't residents told to get out?
- Grenfell Tower graphic: what we know about how the fire spread
- Questions Mount After Fire at Grenfell Tower in London Kills at Least 12
- IFSEC Global: Grenfell Tower Fire: latest Inquiry updates and full timeline
- Behailu Kedebe's statement to the inquiry
- Kingspan: Fire performance of phenolic insulation
- Dozen Grenfell firefighters diagnosed with terminal cancer
- Fire crews extinguish blaze at Shepherd's Bush tower block
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And I'm actually not going to go through the whole |
| 0:05.0 | rigmarole of the housekeeping once again, but I am going to say that at some point, I realized |
| 0:10.1 | that Professor is somewhere in the background eating snacks. And so you may hear some crunch, |
| 0:15.9 | crunch, crunching going on in the background. It's not me eating an entire box of triscuits, although I have been known |
| 0:22.0 | to do that when I've had an edible and I'm curled up in bed and I don't want to go anywhere or do |
| 0:26.4 | anything. But he is either eating peanut butter cookies or freeze-dried chicken hearts. Do with that |
| 0:34.4 | information what you will. He actually likes the chicken hearts better, and I have a one |
| 0:38.7 | pound bag of them in my kitchen, which makes me feel like some sort of horror movie character. |
| 0:46.1 | So it's not cute. It's disgusting, and I hate it, but it's his favorite treat, so he gets them. |
| 0:54.0 | I would also like to thank you for making it this far into the three parts of the Grenfell Tower |
| 1:04.8 | Fire story. I know it's very difficult, very frustrating. It's very annoying to hear some of this information and know full |
| 1:14.6 | well that there were people who could have stopped something or done something and did not. |
| 1:20.5 | But we're just going to keep going. We're going to chug, chug, chug along and get this thing over |
| 1:26.4 | with. So with all that taken care of, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area. |
| 1:38.0 | Episode 212, the Grenfell Tower Fire, Part 3, June 14th, 2017. |
| 1:52.4 | 72 deceased, over 70 injured. |
| 1:57.5 | There would need to be an investigation into what turned a small kitchen fire into a conflagration that killed over 70 people. |
| 2:05.4 | But from its earliest moments popping up on social media, the fire at Grenfell Tower reminded plenty of people of another eerily similar fire in a London Tower block. |
| 2:17.2 | Lacanall House in Camberwell was 14 floors of council housing |
| 2:21.9 | built in the late 1950s, and it was just as questionably maintained, to put it mildly, as Grenfell |
| 2:28.5 | had been. And just like with Grenfell, a recent refurbishment added combustible materials to the |
| 2:33.8 | outside of the building. |
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