grenfell

The terrible news from Miami

The building collapse in Miami seemed to get surprisingly little news coverage on social media up until today. I first saw it reported as a “partial building collapse” which doesn’t really cover what a horrible disaster it was.

It says 99 are missing on that Twitter thread, but I think the number has actually gone up since then. Four are confirmed dead. And there seems to be so little anyone can do except wait for the fire department to do their jobs, jobs which are obviously slow and agonising for everyone involved. I suppose it’s not impossible that people have survived under the rubble but it seems so unlikely past the 24 hour mark.

There is actually a post here of organisations you can donate to, I note they’re already overwhelmed with physical donations which is good but still heartbreaking.

As a Brit I suppose it might even go without saying that this reminds me of the Grenfell Tower disaster, another case of profits being put before safety. Please do better than us when it comes to punishing the people who let it happen, America.

Today is the fourth anniversary of Grenfell Tower

Here’s the same list detailing the victims that I posted last year. Let’s make this an annual thing.

Fatemeh Afrasiabi
Sakina Afrasehabi
Amal Ahmedin
Mohammed Alhajali
Fathia Ali Ahmed Elsanosi
Mohamed Amied Neda
Alexandra Atala
Hamid Begum
Hanif Begum
Husna Begum
Kamru Begum
Rabia Begum
Leena Belkadi
Malak Belkadi
Omar Belkadi

Raymond “Moses” Bernard
Vincent Chiejina
Bassem Choucair
Fatima Choucair
Mierna Choucair
Nadia Choucair
Sirria Choucair
Zaynab Choucair

Joseph Daniels
Jeremiah Deen
Zainab Deen
Tony Disson
Eslah Elgwahry
Mariem Elgwahry
Abdulaziz el-Wahabi
Faouzia el-wahabi
Mehdi el-Wahabi
Nur Huda el-Wahabi
Yasin el-Wahabi

Logan Gomes
Marco Gottardi
Berkti Haftom
Biruk Haftom

Farrah Hamdan
Firdaws Hashim
Yahya Hashim
Yaqub Hashim
Abufars Ibrahim
Isra Ibrahim

Rania Ibrahim
Fethia Ibrahim-Hassan
Hania Ibrahim-Hassan

Nura Jemal
Hamid Kani
Hashim Kedir
Khadija Khalloufi
Victoria King
Deborah Lamprell
Amna Mahmud Idris
Gary Maunders
Mary Mendy
Ligaya Moore
Denis Murphy
Isaac Paulos
Maria del Pilar Burton
Steven Power
Hesham Rahman
Khadija Saye
Abdeslam Sebbar
Shelia Smith
Gloria Trevisan
Mohamednur Tuccu
Amaya Tuccu-Ahmedin
Jessica Urbano Ramirez
Ernie Vital
Marjorie Vital
Ali Yawar Jafari

Poplar fire: London tower block blaze leaves two men in hospital

Poplar fire: London tower block blaze leaves two men in hospital

scavengedluxury:

The government’s target to remove the potentially lethal ACM (aluminium composite material) cladding which caused the Grenfell disaster from all residential buildings was June 2020. This target still hasn’t been met and one of these buildings, New Providence Wharf, is now on fire.

14 separate companies and individuals with links to construction companies using ACM cladding on buildings have donated nearly £4m to the Conservative Party since 2006.

 

Grenfell Tower Inquiry: We Had No Escape Route, Say Disabled Residents — Tory Britain!

Originally posted on Same Difference:

Disabled residents of Grenfell Tower have told a public inquiry that no-one discussed with them how to escape the 24-storey building in an emergency. One woman said it took her 30 minutes to walk down from her 20th floor flat when lifts were not working. Lawyers for residents and the…

Grenfell Tower Inquiry: We Had No Escape Route, Say Disabled Residents — Tory Britain!

More details of the Grenfell Tower case. It’ll be four years since it happened come June. And I can’t even describe how angry this part of the story makes me.

Grenfell Tower, three years on

Today marks the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire which killed so many people. Justice still hasn’t been done, there’s been no arrests. So I thought I’d repost what I did for the first anniversary, a list of all the victims and the details of their lives which the wider world got to know about in the worst of circumstances. I plan to do it every year now, I think.

I hope it’s helpful for anyone who stumbles across it, even though it’s just some research done by someone who wasn’t there. I hope it’s good enough.

Fatemeh Afrasiabi
Sakina Afrasehabi
Amal Ahmedin
Mohammed Alhajali
Fathia Ali Ahmed Elsanosi
Mohamed Amied Neda
Alexandra Atala
Hamid Begum
Hanif Begum
Husna Begum
Kamru Begum
Rabia Begum
Leena Belkadi
Malak Belkadi
Omar Belkadi

Raymond “Moses” Bernard
Vincent Chiejina
Bassem Choucair
Fatima Choucair
Mierna Choucair
Nadia Choucair
Sirria Choucair
Zaynab Choucair

Joseph Daniels
Jeremiah Deen
Zainab Deen
Tony Disson
Eslah Elgwahry
Mariem Elgwahry
Abdulaziz el-Wahabi
Faouzia el-wahabi
Mehdi el-Wahabi
Nur Huda el-Wahabi
Yasin el-Wahabi

Logan Gomes
Marco Gottardi
Berkti Haftom
Biruk Haftom

Farrah Hamdan
Firdaws Hashim
Yahya Hashim
Yaqub Hashim
Abufars Ibrahim
Isra Ibrahim

Rania Ibrahim
Fethia Ibrahim-Hassan
Hania Ibrahim-Hassan

Nura Jemal
Hamid Kani
Hashim Kedir
Khadija Khalloufi
Victoria King
Deborah Lamprell
Amna Mahmud Idris
Gary Maunders
Mary Mendy
Ligaya Moore
Denis Murphy
Isaac Paulos
Maria del Pilar Burton
Steven Power
Hesham Rahman
Khadija Saye
Abdeslam Sebbar
Shelia Smith
Gloria Trevisan
Mohamednur Tuccu
Amaya Tuccu-Ahmedin
Jessica Urbano Ramirez
Ernie Vital
Marjorie Vital
Ali Yawar Jafari

London Grenfell fire disaster, corporate mass murder

More on Britain’s most recent appalling shame.

Dear Kitty. Some blog:

This 2019 video from Britain says about itself:

Grenfell Tower cladding ‘more flammable than a match to petrol’ – 5 News

A lawyer representing bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell fire says the tower was wrapped in cladding that could go up in flames “more quickly than dropping a match into a barrel of petrol”. Stephanie Barwise QC was speaking at the public inquiry into the tragedy which is now focusing on the cause and spread of the blaze.

RBKC or the TMO were guilty of “institutional racism”, said a lawyer representing survivors and bereaved families.

By Charles Hixson in Britain:

Grenfell fire inquiry reveals more criminality by firms involved in refurbishment

14 March 2020

March 10 marked 1,000 days since the Grenfell fire. With the reopening of the inquiry on March 2, witnesses from the companies and entities responsible for the tragedy provided further revelations of…

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London Grenfell disaster guilty corporations get impunity?

There will never come a day when I’m not furious about Grenfell. 72 deaths, including very young children. And nothing.

Dear Kitty. Some blog

Protesters demanding prosecutions outside the London, England Grenfell inquiry earlier this monthFrom daily News Line in Britain:

Grenfell Inquiry – No Prosecutions

27th February 2020

THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths.

Grenfell United, the survivors and bereaved families group, said: ‘It’s a sad day when bereaved and survivors are asked to weigh up the need for truth and need for justice.

‘The past few weeks have been very difficult and this decision still makes us nervous. We can’t help but worry about how this will impact prosecutions later. It is clear that corporate lawyers are playing every trick in the book.

‘The inquiry is about getting to the truth so that lessons are learnt and the government can make changes. We take part to make sure there will never be another Grenfell and people are safe in their homes.

‘But truth at the inquiry…

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#JusticeForGrenfell

As you may know, a thousand-page report regarding Grenfell Tower has been released. I did once live in a building with appalling fire safety standards, but not anymore and I don’t live in London. I woke up the morning afterwards to see the horrible news. It’s still horrible, and at the moment I think the most sensible thing I can do is pass on the words of Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke. He does live there, and one of his friends lost their niece in the fire.

Grenfell must never, ever, ever happen again.