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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The fallout from London’s devastating tower block fire continued on Sunday as the government announced 60 high-rises have failed safety tests, while authorities struggle to evacuate some residents. The massive operation to test tower blocks follows the Grenfell Tower inferno earlier this month that is presumed to have killed 79 people after it spread at shocking speed. Suspicion has fallen on the cladding installed on the outside of Grenfell and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Manslaughter charges could be filed over London’s deadly tower blaze, police said Friday after finding that exterior cladding on the building had failed safety tests and that the fire started with a faulty fridge. The government ordered immediate checks on the Hotpoint FF175BP fridge freezer model blamed for the June 14 blaze in west London, which left 79 people presumed dead. Hotpoint-branded fridge freezers were manufactured by Indesit between 2006 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP)–Manslaughter charges could be filed over London’s deadly tower blaze, police said Friday after they found that outside cladding had failed safety tests and that the fire started with a faulty fridge. “We are looking at every criminal offense from manslaughter onwards,” Fiona McCormack from London’s Metropolitan Police said at a briefing on the June 14 blaze in west London, which left 79 people presumed dead. Referring to the tiles and insulation […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people are believed to have died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday (June 22). Workmen were seen removing cladding of a building in north London on Thursday that has been confirmed to have similar material used in Grenfell. Residents […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — A fire razed a residential area in Paco, Manila, on Tuesday, leaving more than 150 families homeless. Based on initial investigation by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire started at 12:53 p.m. in the house owned by Joey and Angela Trinidad on R. Lanuza St. Osmeña Highway, Barangay 734, Zone 80. As of the moment, the fire has already reached the fifth alarm and has not been declared out. According […]
by Marianne Barriaux and Thomas Cabral Agence France Presse PEDROGAO Grande , Portugal (AFP) — More than 1,000 firefighters were on Monday battling to get control of a massive forest fire that swept through central Portugal at the weekend, as the nation mourned the 64 killed in the flames. Many victims were burnt as they were trapped in their cars around the epicentre of the blaze in Pedrogao Grande, in what is the deadliest such […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) – Firefighters continue to battle an explosive wildfire Sunday (April 17) which blackened more than 500 acres just hours after it ripped through Castaic Lake in California, according to NBC News. NBC reported that no structures were immediately threatened by the fires. Castaic Lake is in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of northwestern Los Angeles County, California.
by Maureen Cofflard Agence France Presse LONDON, Unitede Kingdom (AFP) — houting “Killers!” and “We want justice,” dozens of people stormed the town hall in London’s richest borough on Friday, accusing the authorities of ignoring the plight of the victims of the Grenfell Tower block blaze. Three days after fire ripped through the 24-storey block, killing at least 30 people, residents are desperate for answers — and for the bodies of their loved ones, many […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The brother of a man named as a victim of a devastating blaze that gutted a 24-story apartment block in London, killing at least 17 people, described a chaotic rescue effort to the BBC on Thursday (June 15). The Syrian Solidarity Campaign said on its Facebook page that Mohammed Al Haj Ali, a refugee from Syria studying engineering in London, was one of those who had been killed in the […]
JIANGSU PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — Authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Xuzhou said on Friday (June 16) that the death toll in a blast that occurred just outside a local kindergarten has risen to eight, state media reported. Xuzhou city mayor Zhou Tiegen told an early-morning news conference that 65 people have been injured, with eight remaining in critical condition. No kindergarten students or teachers were injured in the blast. Zhou said that authorities […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – Friends and relatives were searching for loved ones still missing as smoke was wafting out of the blackened shell of the Grenfell Tower in London on Thursday (June 15) where specialist firefighters and dog search teams faced hazardous conditions scouring the wreck, with external cladding still falling from the building. Fire, that killed at least 17 people, engulfed the social housing block, where as many as 600 people lived in […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — At least 17 people are confirmed dead in the massive fire that engulfed a London tower block on Wednesday, police said. “Sadly I can confirm that the number of people that have died is now 17,” Metropolitan Police commander Stuart Cundy said in a televised statement on Thursday. © Agence France-Presse
