When all is said and done, it will be determined that this was an ill-kept public housing project, but the fire was begun by sloppy or - worse - evil tenants intent on creating harm. It then spun out of control.
One of the inspectors noted how often the tenants would disarm the alarms more times than not. And the stairs for escape were riddled with peoples suitcases and belongings. Additionally they often used appliances etc. in ways they shouldn’t. Further they removed the directions for escaping in case of fire...
I understand this was public housing...(Council housing) and many were refugees, foreigners etc from third world countries where they are accustomed to being told what they can and cannot do...independent thinking is new to them. So deciding to leave the complex was not something they could do...too many ‘waited’ for instructions.
I actually saw a video of a ME women “inside” her apartment videoing the flames, who had just flared some....on the outside....she’s filming that while there’s smoke clearly in her apartment......you could hear people in the hallway tell her to leave and she refused.
Many of these people also have great expectations of how their host country ‘has to’ treat them. They were promised certain things by the pamphlets their home country put out to them if they left. .....which was propaganda to get them to infiltrate Western nations.
At any rate...third world people are not in a place to complain.....if they don’t like where they live then they should do like all the rest of the people do....move somewhere else. Unfortuately these people are used to getting what they want by demanding it....compulsive complainers, which many are, makes it hard to tell what is really serious and what isn’t.
Many will see this as case to sue whoever has the money they can go after. Third worlds know this game very well.
I’ve read that many, but not all, of the residents are Muslims. It is also Ramadan which requires not eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset. That’s pretty tough when Ramadan falls in the summer and even worse with a high-latitude location like London. Right now daylight is over 16 hours long with sunset coming after 9 pm.
So lots of cooking would have been going on at the time with the cooks being peckish and grumpy from the long fast. Easy to see an accident happening under those circumstances and with the recent “improvements” turning a kitchen fire into a raging inferno.