He’s keen to ensure that the “stay put” advice is maintained
And I understand that that is the basis of fire spread prevention in a block. I support that.
The problem is though that that assumes that keeping the doors shut will inhibit the spread of a fire. That a fire would spread from the inside of a block outward. In Grenfell that was categorically not the case. Grenfell burned from the outside in and was spreading uncontrollably from an early stage, something that the people on scene should have recognised much earlier.
There is rarely one cause to a disaster, usually a chain of events and decisions have to occur beforehand. Change one of those, and you change the outcome. Sticking to the “stay put” advice on the night in spite of the evidence that it was failing was not the primary cause, but it would seem to be a major contributory factor.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 15 Jun 2018, 9:22,
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