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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

Posted on 06/13/2017 7:27:42 PM PDT by Beave Meister

Blaze has engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road in White City on Wednesday morning

Horrifying pictures emerged on social media showing massive flames licking up the side of the block

Desperate residents trapped high in the enormous residential tower were heard 'screaming' for help

Police are evacuating people and two residents are already being treated for smoke inhalation

Desperate residents are building ropes from sheets in an attempt to escape from their windows as a huge inferno is engulfing a tower block in west London.

The 'horrendous' blaze has struck the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road, White City, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The fire has reportedly spread to five floors, with firefighters struggling to bring it under control. There are 40 fire engines and 200 firefighters at the Lancaster West Estate.

Desperate residents trapped high in the enormous tower were heard 'screaming' for help as they built ropes from sheets in an attempt to reach the ground. One neighbour said he believed someone had jumped from the block.

The residential block has hundreds of residents – two of whom are being treated for illness from smoke inhalation.

Terrified residents in their pyjamas have been evacuated as police are pushing people away from the area for fear the block will collapse as debris has started to fall from the tower.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: asbestos; blaze; fire; globalwarminghoax; greenbuildings; grenfelltower; latimerroad; london; nottinghill; uk; unitedkingdom; westlondon; whitecity
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To: RoseofTexas

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.


41 posted on 06/13/2017 8:30:43 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: House Atreides

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


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


42 posted on 06/13/2017 8:32:34 PM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: jocon307
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.

43 posted on 06/13/2017 8:33:17 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: snarkytart

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.


44 posted on 06/13/2017 8:33:21 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

This is a housing project type residence.

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45 posted on 06/13/2017 8:34:01 PM PDT by Mears (Clorox bleach is a racist product.)
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To: snarkytart

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


46 posted on 06/13/2017 8:34:43 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Karl Spooner
"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.

47 posted on 06/13/2017 8:36:28 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: virgil

Unless it was electrical. We’ll see.


48 posted on 06/13/2017 8:38:07 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Mears
"This is a housing project type residence."

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

49 posted on 06/13/2017 8:38:17 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Guenevere

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


50 posted on 06/13/2017 8:43:42 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Beave Meister

Was the sprinkler system sabotaged?


51 posted on 06/13/2017 8:46:32 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Jane Long

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


52 posted on 06/13/2017 8:51:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: mass55th

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


53 posted on 06/13/2017 8:51:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: TChad

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.


54 posted on 06/13/2017 8:53:20 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Karl Spooner
"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."

55 posted on 06/13/2017 8:57:01 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: jocon307

Yes, a use of an accelerant.


56 posted on 06/13/2017 8:57:53 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Beave Meister

Incredible


57 posted on 06/13/2017 9:07:25 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: mass55th

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


58 posted on 06/13/2017 9:08:24 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: mass55th

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


59 posted on 06/13/2017 9:19:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: snarkytart

You’re probably right.


60 posted on 06/13/2017 9:23:02 PM PDT by TChad
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