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a death trap, a fridge catching fire, Britain, Glenfell Tower, Grenfell Action Group, Kitty S Jones, longstanding electrical faults, multiple power surges, the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation
The Grenfell Tower fire is thought to have been started by a fridge catchingfire. You may well wonder how on earth that could happen.
Fridges are notoriously extremely flammable and give off toxic fumes when they burn. Many house fires start with appliance faults, especially fridge freezers. It’s possible the fridge was faulty, of course.
London Fire Servicehave highlightedthe dangers of fridge freezers previously, and have called on manufacturers to make them safer. There is, on average, one fridge freezer fire a week in the capital and the service has been lobbying the industry to make their fridges and freezers more fire resistant for the some years.
However, there is a record of longstanding electrical faults which had resulted in surges to electrical appliances and light fittings in the Kensington Tower block, creating a huge fire risk, which had been repeatedly reported and repeatedly ignored by…
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Just one of the many cruel injustices that workers, in even the most “democratic” bourgeois states, will have to endure unless they organize to smash this disgusting capitalist-imperialist system.
Yup. It is disgusting. Well beyond words . . .
And how many people died in that fire? Now I’m reading “more than 80.” The fact is, they don’t know! The authorities don’t know how many people were living in that 20-storey building. Obviously whole families died and there are no next-of-kin to report them missing; the fire was reported to be so intense, bodies were literally burned to ashes. And will anyone be held responsible? I think we know the answer to that question.