It is being reported that it was a faulty refrigerator.The fire is said to have spread from the 2nd floor to the roof in just 15 minutes.
Probably started by some idiot flicking his cigarette butt
Heard on the BBC that the building was grandfathered and as you stated had neither a sprinkler system, nor an integrated fire alarm system. Undoubtedly they are going to looking at the fact that the fire spread very rapidly both vertically and horizontally which is apparently quite unusual. Also that the individual flats proved not to be fire resistant and the means of egress were rapidly blocked.I thought that with modern fire protection engineering in buildings these days that a fire like this was almost impossible.
I hope engineers in the future look to this building as a case study in how not to build a high rise apartment.
Apparently this building had no working fire alarms and no working sprinkler systems and the whole thing just burned right through from the bottom floor to the top floor.
Some demolition firm is no doubt going to have to bring the building down. Maybe one floor at a time from the top down because this area of the city looks too dense for a building implosion to get approved.
We don't have grandfathering I'm pretty sure. All buildings have to have working alarm systems and public ones sprinklers.I wonder if something like this could happen in Toronto
It is going to be one of the worst fires in British History.They are saying entire families are missing and that firefighters still haven't searched the upper floors where most of the dead we'll be.
It could be hundreds of people dead.
Article about this point:Apparently the exterior cladding looks likely to be the catalyst for the fast & easy spread of the fire.
Most apartment fires here are contained due to better building codes & construction.
That type of cladding is already banned in Ontario.
This is the same thing that happened in Dubai on New Year's Eve.Apparently the exterior cladding looks likely to be the catalyst for the fast & easy spread of the fire.
Most apartment fires here are contained due to better building codes & construction.
That type of cladding is already banned in Ontario.
I wouldn't be so smug. I think Canada is on the same path as Britain, only a few years behind.We here in Canada are so lucky we don't live in Britain.