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Grenfell disaster was ‘a crime’ – firefighters' union says
A member of the public at the memorial at the base of Grenfell Tower in London in remembrance of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire on June 14 2017, June 14, 2024
THE Grenfell disaster was “a crime caused by deregulation and institutional failings at the highest level,” the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said today.
Responding to official acknowledgement that residents in the west London tower block were told to “stay put” for too long during the 2017 fire, FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: “It is right that stay put is reviewed for situations like Grenfell.
“But we must ask why flammable cladding is still wrapped around the homes of hundreds of thousands of people.
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