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

Very true. I've been reading a book on the Fire of London (1666). Back then the people were blaming the Dutch, the French, and the Catholics (Papists) for starting the fire. They even hung a man, Robert Hubert, a French Catholic for it, although his guilt has been discredited as the man was severely mentally and physically disabled. The fire actually started in Pudding Lane, in the bakery of Thomas Farriner. He was never charged or punished for it, but Farriner and his wife were signatories on the Court Bill brought against Hubert.

61 posted on 06/13/2017 9:30:57 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Beave Meister

Did the building collapse?


62 posted on 06/13/2017 9:34:46 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Karl Spooner

OMG.


63 posted on 06/13/2017 9:37:10 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: meyer

Double posting... well done!


64 posted on 06/13/2017 9:49:29 PM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
"Did the building collapse?"

Not yet. They're still trying to put the fire out with hoses, which of course can only go up so high.

65 posted on 06/13/2017 9:55:44 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Guenevere
It also said the Tower was built in 1974

1974 was also the year the film "The Towering Inferno" was released.

66 posted on 06/13/2017 10:01:36 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: Karl Spooner

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


Maybe it was set, knowing that it was full of Moslems? Re enge for Manchester and/or London Bridge?


67 posted on 06/13/2017 10:03:26 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: mass55th

Of course it didn’t collapse.


68 posted on 06/13/2017 10:03:55 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Guenevere

There are blogs about maintenance and safety issues going back years.


69 posted on 06/13/2017 10:06:11 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD

One woman they just interviewed at one of the rescue centers, said her apartment was brand new. She’d only been in it for 6 months. The reporter said he’d heard there had been plastic sheeting on the outside, and asked her if she had seen it on fire. She said that it wasn’t on fire when she left the building to escape.


70 posted on 06/13/2017 10:09:23 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Karl Spooner

That’s one very nasty fire!


71 posted on 06/13/2017 10:11:37 PM PDT by caww
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To: mass55th
Looks like this guy is predictable.


72 posted on 06/13/2017 10:11:51 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: 1066AD

https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/


73 posted on 06/13/2017 10:12:34 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Jane Long
This was early on....even then it didn't take long to engulf the building......I suspect there will be a bad death toll .....doesn't sound good.


74 posted on 06/13/2017 10:14:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Again..early on it just looks like the fire too off fast.....building from the 70's so it didn't have the protection many do today....


75 posted on 06/13/2017 10:19:15 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Kind of an unusual flame pattern going on there.


76 posted on 06/13/2017 10:19:16 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: caww
Looks like dawn coming in....


77 posted on 06/13/2017 10:22:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: Karl Spooner

Yes.....might have been an explosion...the one area looked ‘hot’ for that even after the fire spread...


78 posted on 06/13/2017 10:24:08 PM PDT by caww
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To: Beave Meister
The fire has reportedly spread to five floors

It looked to me like the fire had spread to ALL floors, not just five.

79 posted on 06/13/2017 10:24:47 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: caww
Even as dawn arrives it's still raging.....


80 posted on 06/13/2017 10:25:40 PM PDT by caww
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