Flat 113 at Grenfell Tower
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On the 14th floor of Grenfell Tower, firefighters moved eight residents into flat 113. Only four would survive. Using evidence from stage 1 of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry, Katie Razzall pieces together what went wrong that night in flat 113. The answer reveals a catalogue of errors which may help to explain the wider disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:59.0 | I went down. |
| 1:00.0 | You went on. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dillon welcome to Seriously. |
| 1:07.0 | Francis Dean is 49 he lives in Middlesex and works as a forklift truck driver, taking |
| 1:15.4 | on odd painter-decorator jobs in his spare time. In December 2015, he received a call which |
| 1:21.8 | would change his life. |
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