THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE
Episode 242 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14th, 2017 — 72 people dead in a 24-storey London social housing block, killed by a refurbishment that wrapped a concrete tower in cladding whose polyethylene core acted as a fire accelerant, turning the building into a vertical torch that went from fourth floor to roof in under 30 minutes. The cladding was chosen partly because it cost £293,000 less than the fire-resistant alternative.
We trace the specific failure chain: the engineering decisions, the building control failures, the national…
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