The Grenfell Tower Fire: A Firefighter's View

Examines the systemic failures and deregulation that led to the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, from a firefighter’s perspective.

In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire began in a kitchen on the fourth floor of a twenty-four-storey block of flats in West London. A fire that should have been contained within the original compartment ripped up the outside of the building within minutes. Procedures and systems that had worked for decades failed resulting in the loss of seventy-two lives.

Yet ...