How very sad. :-(
Followed the story last night. First thought terrorism. Just now read it was a faulty refridge.

Sian Berry is a Green London Assembly member who chairs the London Assembly housing committee.
She says that under current rules, it is the responsibility of building owners to ensure that a fire assessment has occurred - and this "creates problems".

"It used to be the case that the fire brigade would go in and make very prescriptive requirements," she tells BBC Radio 4, but now it is "less rigorous".
She says the London Assembly looked into the issue after a similar fatal fire at Lakanal House in 2009, and found that 20% of assessments were inadequate.

"There are genuine issues with accountability," she says.
Ms Berry says her solution to the problem is for residents to become much more involved in the management of their blocks.

"Who knows these buildings better than the people who live in them?" she asks.
"It's not just about this block, it's about residents across London. People trying to make their homes better are being regarded as troublemakers by the authorities."

Sir David Amess is chair of the all-party parliamentary fire safety rescue group.

He said: "We've argued time after time that sprinklers stop lives being lost. And we've waited 11 years for a review of building regulations.

"It's absolute madness that it isn't mandatory for sprinklers to be automatically fitted in all new school buildings. It's impossible to put any amount of money on someone's life.

"It's been very, very frustrating for our committee and it's taken a tragedy like this to get some attention on the whole issue of sprinklers."

Russ Timpson is a former firefighter who now runs the risk management company Horizonscan, and is secretary of the Tall Buildings Fire Safety Network.

He told BBC Radio 4 that it is still possible to build tall buildings without sprinklers, depending on what the building is used for.

"I suspect that this will be a sea-change ... when we hopefully reflect on where we have come to with our regulations."

Mr Timpson says overseas colleagues are "staggered" when they hear tall buildings are built in the UK with a single staircase.

"We do have tough fire legislation," he says, "but it is timely that we do reflect on that. I'm afraid that to some degree the money does determine how much fire safety you build into a building."

I think sprinklers are a red-herring here: nobody is ever going to fit sprinklers to the outside of a residential building, which is where this fire spread.

I think sprinklers are a red-herring here: nobody is ever going to fit sprinklers to the outside of a residential building, which is where this fire spread.

Had sprinklers been installed, who's to say the fire would have spread externally?

Legal experts declined to express an opinion on whether fire barriers are required by law.

A 2012 planning document published by The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which included detailed diagrams of the planned new panelling and the materials used in the new skin, did not include reference to the barriers, according to a Reuters review.

The only new cladding elements depicted or listed in the "Sustainability and Energy Statement" were wall fixings, exterior zinc panels and polyisocyanurate insulation panels.

It is not clear if the document represented the final design used in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey 1970s apartment block home to hundreds of residents, or whether fire barriers recommended by industry bodies were installed.

Big question for me: how did the fire cross from the alleged source - failed fridge/freezer in a fourth floor flat - to the cladding/insulation on the outside of the building?

Construction firm Rydon, which carried out the refurbishment, initially said in a statement that the work met "all fire regulations" - the wording was omitted in a later statement.

Interesting

Construction firm Rydon, which carried out the refurbishment, initially said in a statement that the work met "all fire regulations" - the wording was omitted in a later statement.

That would be 'stairwell', singular. It was described as 'manky', and was not touched during last year's renovation. It's suggested that there was no emergency lighting.

The panels were supplied by Suffolk based Celotex, part of the French St Gobain group. They are described as textured aluminium foil facings, manufactured from rigid polyisocyanurate using a blowing agent that has low global warming potential (GWP) and zero ozone depletion potential.

Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the massive fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people.