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blahbleh112233 t1_ja3islv wrote

Reply to comment by BigCommieMachine in This sign telling you to stay inside the apartment building when the alarm sounds by DeepPossession8916

Not even that. Weren't there a bunch of public housing fires where the entire building just went up in flames due to them being built with flammable material?

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user2021883 t1_ja3mzpv wrote

I think you’re referring to the Grenfell Tower fire, a council owned block of apartments in which 71 people died. The building itself was concrete and hence relatively fire proof but it had been retrofitted with a an aluminium/foam external cladding to improve its thermal efficiency and appearance. The cladding was flammable and allowed the fire to rapidly spread between apartments and floors. It was a national scandal and is very much an open wound

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