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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: Cementjungle

It’s got 25 floors ...probably intended to say that...


81 posted on 06/13/2017 10:26:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: Cementjungle

People in the nearby buildings were evacuated because of falling debrie from the fire.


82 posted on 06/13/2017 10:28:18 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Looks like we got a good lead over on this thread already.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3560664/posts?page=60#60


83 posted on 06/13/2017 10:30:51 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: caww
Hazardous Area Response Team was on the scene as well as other resources according to London Ambulance.

This photo early on....as firefighters fought the blaze..


84 posted on 06/13/2017 10:31:43 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
40 fire engines on the scene and over 200 firefighters lasst count....30 to 5 hospitals so far..they are still on the scene..


85 posted on 06/13/2017 10:36:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

86 posted on 06/13/2017 10:37:39 PM PDT by caww
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Might be a new ISIS strategy, you kill more people setting a building on fire than stabbing them in the street

I believe all these things are muzzies, until it can be proved otherwise.

87 posted on 06/13/2017 11:13:52 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: Beave Meister

Surely like the large cities in the US that have high rise apartments those in London also have sprinkler systems.
I shudder to think of what the death toll in this fire will be.
If it’s arson, the Brits will cover it up.


88 posted on 06/14/2017 12:05:16 AM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Moonman62

Pruitt-Igoe without the warning?


89 posted on 06/14/2017 2:36:06 AM PDT by Does so (PARIS is like OPEC, except We're Winning!)
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To: Beave Meister

Amazing pictures. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a large, reasonably modern building burn like that. Old two and three story apartment complexes sometimes go up like that, but a highrise? How does this happen with modern building codes — “modern” being since the 1930’s?


90 posted on 06/14/2017 3:25:28 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Blue Jays; LibWhacker

How many sheets would it take to descend 24 stories ?


91 posted on 06/14/2017 9:44:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
No idea. How strong are the sheets?

In fact, making rope out of sheets is a whole separate area of experience, and I've never done it. I think the preferred way is to cut the sheets into strips and braid a bunch of the strips together, then tie those braided rope segments together into a longer rope, but for Heaven's sake, don't take my word on it!

I would NEVER trust such a rope unless I saw it in Ashley or some other authority, or I was in a high rise that was burning down and there were only two choices: go down the damned rope or be roasted alive.

I do know that for climbing, a double fisherman's knot is often used to tie two ropes together:

It's very secure. Make that a triple or quadruple knot and you have even more security. I've even heard of people doing septuples, then tying the two ends in double fisherman's knots around the standing part of the rope (saw that in a book on rescue knots, lol). I guess the theory is, when your life depends on it, you don't want to mess around.

92 posted on 06/14/2017 11:12:59 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: mass55th

Strange that this building didn’t collapse and all of it was on fire. Interesting.


93 posted on 06/14/2017 9:03:51 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: FreedomStar3028
I'm surprised it didn't fall either. Just checked for latest info, and it said:

Pockets of fire were still burning on Wednesday evening and firefighters will remain on the scene overnight.

I'm on the east coast, and London is five hours ahead of us here, which makes it 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning there.

94 posted on 06/14/2017 9:29:14 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 story ever get out that this was one of those “Council Estates” managed social housing? Muslim immigrants living in welfare housing. They treat their living quarters like a city dump and complain about rich people then to bring attention to their so called “unfair plight” they set the building on fire.


95 posted on 06/14/2017 9:50:13 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: LibWhacker
How strong are the sheets?

After you tear them into strips, and braid them back together, they are quite strong. However, for maximum strength, simply wet them down before jumping out the window and sliding down them.

96 posted on 06/15/2017 7:27:33 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: higgmeister

Hadn’t heard that (that it was a social housing complex). Thanks for the info.


97 posted on 06/15/2017 7:30:09 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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