From what I can glean, the building was a fire trap and had been refurbished recently. Although there seemed to be a lot of Moose limbs living in the building. But they’re all over the place there. Who knows, but with what has been going on there with the attacks it seems fishy.
In the US a multi-unit dwelling like this would have to have fire suppression and warning systems in order to get an occupancy permit.
I can not see a fire like this in a building with a working fire suppression system. At the very least most of the people would have had time to get out.
Maybe Britain has grandfather clauses for older buildings.
In the US if you want Section 8 tenements you have to have all of the safety features. They don’t have to be the best but they have to work.
This is what I am waiting to hear. If so, this would be the exact same thing as the fire in Oakland that was in that old warehouse that repeatedly had code violations which were not enforced. It burned down and killed a bunch of artists. The reasons why the codes were not enforced is because the tenants and landlord were progressives, and so political correctness kept getting in the way of enforcing safety upon poor progressive artists. The result was a bunch of dead artists.
Here we may have a situation where a muslim building owner was allowed to have a death trap rather than enforce building codes, because he and the tenants were muslim.