S. Noble:
It is still unknown what sparked Grenfell fire in West London , but the reason for it becoming a towering inferno is not.
Trendy Green Energy is responsible. Cladding, which is material wrapped around the outside of a building to improve appearance and energy efficiency cause it to go up in flames. Firefighters call this type of green insulation “silent killers”.
The green and blue panels serving as attractive insulation were used during a £10million refurb only finished in May 2017.
It caused the building to go like a match, as one firefighter explained.
The composite foam sandwich panels helped spread the fire quickly from the lower floors all the way up the block, according to experts.
The waterproof zinc coating made it even harder for firefighters to douse the blaze.
Arnold Tarling, 55, of the Association of Specialist Fire Protection said: “They clad the concrete of this building with flammable insulation panels and rain screen cladding with a 30mm gap, which acted like a chimney.
“All the burning material falls down, starting more fires below, and the flames spread up and across searching for oxygen.
More inocents blood on the hands of the enviromentalists like banning DDT becuase of Carson’s lies and junk science the lives of four fire fighters in the State of Washington a few years ago over some stupid fish might have been scooped up the life of unibomber victim Timber Executive Gilbert Murry their demands that Chlorine used to make drinking water safer be banned the lives of loggers lost to their ecotage their Population Bomb lies of Ehrlich and now this fire the Blood is staining their green hands
One of many buildings with hundreds of apts that should be condemned and leveled not “refurbished.
Quote”It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord,” it wrote.
“This matter is of particular concern as there is only one entry and exit to Grenfell Tower during the Improvement Works and the potential for a fire to break out in the communal area on the walkway does not bear thinking about as residents would be trapped in the building with no way out!”
Some residents of the building said they had been advised to stay in their flats in the event of a fire.
58 missing…. they met all safety requirements. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40301289
That’s the vilest bit of politically exploitive, bullshit spin I’ve seen in quite a while. In the first place, there’s nothing “green” about the panels used, given that they’re a thin aluminum sheathing wrapped around a polyethylene plastic core. Polyethylene is both flammable and an environmental problem. What the hell is Trendy Green Energy supposed to suggest to the average idiot in the audience? A rhetorical question… I already know what the author is trying to suggest.
Then there’s the matter of responsibility. The cheaper panels were purchased and used by private contractors, who disregarded an instruction that only slightly more expensive, non-flammable metal-core panels were to be used in the project. By doing this, somebody pocketed a total of £6,250 in savings. That works out to around £107 pocketed for each dead body, or $137 each.
Proper regulation and proper enforcement would have prevented this. Obviously the lack of strict regulation and enforcement did not.
Fire-safe panels WERE initially chosen to make Grenfell Tower more attractive – but contractors opted for a cheaper plastic version to save just £6,250