Flat 113 at Grenfell Tower
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in West London; it caused 72 deaths and more than 70 others were injured and 223 people escaped. On the fourteenth floor of Grenfell Tower, firefighters moved eight residents into one flat – 113. Only four would survive. Piecing together evidence from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry, Katie Razzell tries to understand what went wrong that night in flat 113.
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| 0:00.0 | In the early hours of the 14th of June 2017 a fire started at Grenfell Tower in London |
| 0:06.4 | within five hours it had spread across the outside of the 24-story block |
| 0:11.5 | killing 72 people. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Katie Razzle. |
| 0:15.3 | I reported on the fire from that very first morning, and in this program for the BBC |
| 0:19.9 | World Service, I'm going to piece together the story of what happened that night on one floor in the |
| 0:25.4 | tower. But to start I need you to meet one man. |
| 0:28.8 | Francis Dean is 49. He works as a forklift truck driver taking on odd painter |
| 0:38.4 | decorator jobs in his spare time. In December 2015 he received a call which would change his life. |
| 0:45.0 | Somebody gave her my number that's how she contact me that she wanted to paint her flat. |
| 0:52.0 | Signab Dean no relation. told me that she wanted to paint a flat. |
| 0:53.0 | Saineab Dean, no relation, was just about to move into a tower block in West London. |
| 0:58.0 | She told me she's from Sierra Leone, I'm like, wow, we really, I'm from Sierra Leone as well, so we kind of like, from day one, |
| 1:05.3 | we kind of like bond straight away. |
| 1:08.3 | Saineb and France has also discovered they knew the same people. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm like, I don't I knew you know my cousin. |
| 1:14.0 | I'll come, you know, so... |
| 1:17.0 | Over time, the pair became close friends. |
| 1:20.0 | Francis got to know Zynab's young son, Jeremiah, and he helped decorate her new home, painting |
| 1:25.4 | her living room bright red. |
| 1:27.0 | Zynab loved that tower. |
| 1:29.6 | And how did it look? |
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