Grenfell Tower

[Bulletguy]

 

BBC2 screened an excellent documentary last night about Grenfell.

 

Many people interviewed had never spoken about it before. Some residents who had fallen asleep told how when they first heard the sirens from the fire engines, they ignored it because the fire dept was regularly called out to free people stuck in the tower block flats which often broke down.

 

It's extremely heart wrenching viewing.

 

This is the iplayer link;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b6q36v/grenfell

[Bulletguy]

 

'It was apocalyptic, like a horrendous film'

 

Investigators had to enter Grenfell Tower while it was unsafe and as new fires broke out, the man who led the police recovery operation has revealed.

 

Simon Fox spent five months working as the scene evidence recovery manager at the 23-storey building in west London.

 

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, the retired Met officer said the block had been "liable to collapse at any stage" as his team carried out their work.

 

Once inside the building, Mr Fox described the scene as "apocalyptic" and "like some horrendous film", with floors "one metre or two metres deep of everything that had fallen down".

 

"When you got close to the windows, bits were still falling off. So every now and again you'd hear a bit crash or something would fall off," he said.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61732368

 

 

BBC2 documentary first shown Tuesday 7th June.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b6q36v/grenfell

[Bulletguy]

 

Channel 4 is screening a two part drama of the Grenfell Inquiry. Part 1 tonight 10pm for those interested.

 

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/channel-4-air-grenfell-value-engineering-scenes-inquiry-play

 

 

[Bulletguy]

 

Anyone that missed this excellent drama-doc it's on My4player.

 

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grenfell

 

Part 2 tonight at 11pm.