Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Cavity barrier manufacturer says installation of barriers on Grenfell was "some of the worst I have ever seen" pic.twitter.com/L39pnd07dR— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) March 9, 2021
Chris Mort carried out an examination of the way his product had been installed after the fire in 2018. Says he believes there were areas where the products either weren't fitted at all or stuck on with sillicone instead of fixed with a bracket
unfuckingbelievable. You don't need to be a barriers expert to know that sticking important safety components with fucking silicone is rough as.
― calzino, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
well of course hes going to say that, its his product.
― micah, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 06:48 (three years ago) link
I wouldn't expect lying at a public inquiry is beyond the realms of possibility but if the barriers really were stuck on with silicone rather than with the brackets, then he'd right calling it a cowboy installation.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 08:30 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVUn3zMVoAAEw9n?format=jpg&name=small
lives could have been saved -- but at what cost?
see also, from today
This is such a powerful first-hand account from @MichaelSchuman. “The state may have prevented COVID deaths better than many liberal democracies. But that success has come at great cost—to human dignity and to the human spirit.” https://t.co/YUZVxydtLC— Josh Lipsky (@joshualipsky) June 14, 2022
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,— wint (@dril) May 9, 2014
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
strong essay by peter apps on the grenfell enquiry so far:
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/home/the-grenfell-tower-inquiry-has-painted-a-vivid-picture-of-the-world-we-must-leave-behind-76600
― mark s, Saturday, 23 July 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Excellent, especially the last few remarks.
This also seems relevant.
How did one of the world’s wealthiest economies end up with housing so unfit for extreme weather? I wrote about how Edwardian moralising, cheap coal and Thatcher's bonfire of housings standards has left British homes unprepared to weather climate change. https://t.co/2eDJLlHb5R— Phineas Harper (@PhinHarper) July 20, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 July 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/multiple-firefighters-who-saved-lives-28941465
― StanM, Friday, 13 January 2023 07:47 (one year ago) link
"Up to a dozen firefighters who saved lives at the Grenfell Tower have been diagnosed with cancers; the majority of which are understood to be digestive cancers and leukaemia, for which there is no cure"
― StanM, Friday, 13 January 2023 07:48 (one year ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 January 2023 12:02 (one year ago) link
this is doubly grim bcz attached to this particular event but i assume the issue is baked in to all modern fire-fighting
― mark s, Friday, 13 January 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link