London Fire killed 12 and Injured Many More

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Scary Scene

They banged on windows, screamed for help, dropped children from smoky floors in a desperate attempt to save them.
Terrified residents of the Grenfell Tower in London said there was little warning of the inferno that engulfed their highrise apartment building and left 12 people dead — a toll that officials said would almost certainly rise. The blaze early Wednesday in the 24-storey building in west London's North Kensington district also injured dozens and left an unknown number missing. More than 200 firefighters worked through the night and were still finding pockets of fire inside later in the day. A huge plume of smoke wafted across the London skyline and left a burned-out hulk in the working-class, multi-ethnic neighbourhood. Survivors told of frantic attempts to escape during the nighttime fire. Samira Lamrani said she saw a woman try to save a baby by dropping the child from a window "on the ninth or 10th floor."

Smoke Filled The Air

"I looked through the spy hole and I could see smoke everywhere and the neighbours are all there. There's a fireman shouting 'Get down the stairs,'" one of the block's residents, Michael Paramasivan, told BBC Radio. "It was an inferno.

"As we went past the fourth floor, it was completely thick black smoke. As we've gone outside, I'm looking up at the block and it was just going up. It was like pyrotechnics. It was just unbelievable how quick it was burning."

No Fire Alarms

Other survivors spoke of confusion and conflicting advice given to residents, many of whom had been advised in advance not to leave their apartments in the event of a fire. "There were no fire alarms," said Edward Daffarn 55, who was warned by a neighbour to flee. "There was heavy smoke in the hallway. I could not find the stairs." Daffarn said residents had complained for years to London City Council about building safety, to no avail. "I'm lucky to be alive. A neighbour's smoke alarm went off and another neighbour phoned and told me to get out," he said. "I consider this mass murder." The manager of the building said it was too early to speculate the cause of the fire and what contributed to its spread.

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