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I always think of Grenfell's like a tragedy in free acts.

The way we were treated beforehand with the kind of marginalisation and disrespect,

through to like the violence of the evening, you know, the sheer violence of the fire,

through to kind of what happened to us afterwards, just sheer abandonment.

This is the story of a fire which killed 72 people,

a fire both foreseeable and preventable,

and what it tells us about the people and policies meant to protect us.

I'm Kate Lamble from BBC Radio 4.

This is Grenfell, Building a Disaster.

Episode 10, The Final Act.

In the early hours of Wednesday the 14th of June 2017, many residents left Grenfell Tower

with nothing.

How they were treated in the days and months that followed has also been a focus of the

public inquiry into the fire.

I had like soot on my face, I still had the towel that I had round me around my shoulders

and I needed help. I was in a very traumatised state.

Ed Daffan got out around 1.30. Outside in the chaos, the first authority he came across was the police.

And in fact, all the police came and did was like literally shout at us to get back, get back.

And then the next thing I remember is like the riot squad turning up with their shields and

batons and running past us. Local councils have a legal responsibility to respond in an emergency. The Royal Borough of

Kensington and Chelsea, which owned Grenfell Tower, had an emergency control centre just in case.

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