asfish wrote:
From the BBC
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A 2012 report by the British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association (BAFSA) concluded that fire sprinklers could be retrofitted with tenants in place at a cost of about £1,150 a flat. Since the 24-storey Grenfell Tower contained 120 flats, it works out at £138,000. Significantly less than the £2.6m spent on the cladding and replacement windows which were largely done for cosmetic reasons.
Currently on the iPlayer is a great programme called 'The fires that foretold Grenfell', I watched it last night.
It focuses on five fires, (including the Summerland disaster on the Isle of Man, and includes some harrowing footage of the inferno in which 50 people died), all of which foretold what would go on to happen at Grenfell.
My blood was boiling by the end of it, time and time again recommendations were made to prevent tragedies occurring in the future, but they were only ever 'recommendations' as making it compulsory would cost too much money and it's only poor people burning to death.
They'd spend money making the towers look nicer for rich people driving past, but not to retrofit sprinklers to, y'know, stop people burning to death in a fire.
A recommended watch.
NOTE - Labour were just as fucking useless in government as the Tories.