The Grenfell Tower fire : a firefighter's view / Tony Sullivan.

Sullivan, Tony (Historian), author

Barnsley : White Owl, 2025.

224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire began in a kitchen on the fourth floor of a 24-storey block of flats in West London. A fire that should have been contained within the original compartment ripped up the outside of the building within minutes. This book gives a firefighter's perspective of the deregulation that caused the tragedy and describes what firefighters were confronted with that June night in 2017. It places that deregulation chronologically alongside a career that spanned three decades including nine years in the training department of the London Fire Brigade. It proposes the causes are far deeper and wider than many think - a systemic deterioration of standards in testing of materials, building control, maintenance, inspections, fire safety and enforcement.

9781399064460 (hbk)

363.3790942134
363.379

TH9449.L6

363.37909

English

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