Screaming residents build ropes from sheets and lean out windows as huge fire at West London tower

The Daily Mail ^ | 6/13/2017 | EKIN KARASIN and ISOBEL FRODSHAM

[snarkytart]

Maybe, but it looks like a real fire not an explosion that caused a fire. We’ll see.

Either way that looks like a horror movie.

[Blue Jays]

"...Russia! Russia! Russia!..."

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It seriously rings in my head like Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Yeah...I similarly do not see connection between testimony and global terror.

[virgil]

This fire must have been set on purpose, don’t you think?

Yeah. That is a massive fire. I can't believe how it's totally engulfed this large tower. I could see a few floors being impacted, but it looks like all of them.

[mass55th]

One witness said he thinks the fire started in the apartment next to his. He said he heard a bang, which he thinks may have been from an appliance as people were cooking at that time (approx. 1 a.m.) after fasting for Ramadan.

[Mears]

This is a housing project type residence.

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[Karl Spooner]

There is a report of an explosion according to an eyewitness.

[mass55th]

"There is a report of an explosion according to an eyewitness."

Yeah, they're saying it was an exploding electrical appliance. Apparently there has been a fire or fires there previously as one witness mentioned that.

[snarkytart]

Unless it was electrical. We’ll see.

[mass55th]

"This is a housing project type residence."

Yeah, they started building tower-type housing structures in the 50's and 60's there.

[Karl Spooner]

I hear that people said the fire alarms weren’t working. Still didn’t hear anything about a sprinkler system installed or not.

[TChad]

Was the sprinkler system sabotaged?

[Moonman62]

One guy who escaped said he heard an explosion when the fire started.

[Karl Spooner]

I think the guy on the 4th floor just assumed that it was an appliance. Just the way it sounded to me.

[snarkytart]

I think we need to chill a little with this one and wait and see only because of this area is like public housing and if the UK is like the US, those types of buildings are run down and violating all kind of fire and building codes even though the government pays the rent for most of the people who live in them.

[mass55th]

"I think the guy on the 4th floor just assumed that it was an appliance. Just the way it sounded to me."

True. Speculation at best. Who knows what they were up to. Now Mayor Khan will have to find all new places for his muzzie friends. According to one article: "The tower block was built in the 1970s as part of the Lancaster West Estate project."

[Red Steel]

Yes, a use of an accelerant.

[Reno89519]

Incredible

[Karl Spooner]

If that is a muzzie building there will be a lot of revenge no matter the cause.

[Reno89519]

Probably a terrorist building a bomb set it off by accident.

[TChad]

You’re probably right.