UK's Worst Modern Disaster: Grenfell Tower | What Went Wrong

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What Went Wrong - UK's Worst Modern Disaster: Grenfell Tower
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Seventy-two people died when a fire destroyed the Grenfell Tower, in west London, in June 2017, in one of the UK's worst modern disasters. Fire raced up the exterior of the building in a matter of minutes, eventually spreading to all four sides and making escape and rescue impossible for dozens trapped inside. What went wrong in the Grenfell Tower? Through interviews with those directly involved, this documentary investigates the decades long housing crisis in London that contributed to dangerous living conditions in Grenfell Tower, documents the dramatic events on the night of the fire and delves into the theory being investigated in a public inquiry that highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.
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@FreeDocumentary Жыл бұрын

If there’s a quick profit to be made, corners will be cut. Not all are so unscrupulous. But too many are and they get away with it until disaster strikes. I think being trapped in a burning tower must be one of the worst things ever. I don’t know what the status is of those responsible but I hope they feel the full weight of the law and more importantly, oversight improved so that such tragedies don’t happen in the first place.

@ginger7344 Жыл бұрын

The variety and effort that goes into this amazing channel is so appreciated.

@ManxAndy Жыл бұрын

Please check out the Summerland fire , 1973……if you havnt already ….. very similar circumstances, flammable outer cladding caused over 50 deaths within the complex….till Grenfell, it was the worst peace time fire in the uk 😔

@beenaplumber8379 Жыл бұрын

What was the date this aired? You uploaded it 2 months ago, but it seems a few years old. The card to click on your next video covered the closing titles, so if there was a date there (or any other interesting info), I couldn't see it. Is there really no new information in the last 3-4 years, or is this just old?

@MeduseldRabbit Жыл бұрын

The refurbishment was so badly done it almost feels like it was INTENDED to catch fire and destroy the entire building. Almost every single safety feature the building ever had was defeated by the cladding, plastic window frames, and the breached compartments.

@Nigelsmom2136 Жыл бұрын

5 years have passed and still no arrests. That's a travesty.

@antonys32 Жыл бұрын

The time passes......the weight lessers........then everything goes normal.

@Unknown-sz8kg Жыл бұрын

Profit before safety, the politicians will never live in these apartments themself so they don't care.

@FreeDocumentary Жыл бұрын

exactly right. Make them live there. Seriously. Experiencing things first hand is for some the only way to get some kind of understanding of the real world.

@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

Or you buy insurance bring it down on purpose and make 5.5 billion like 9 / / and Larry Slitherstein.

@NathanT25 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it any better

@borysnijinski331 Жыл бұрын

To be fair…these are the politicians people elected.

@walleyehunter8862 Жыл бұрын

Paul Martin lives near me he has acres of land with a golf course his house looks like a motel and around the corner people are living in poverty ! It seems like the government doesn't care because they are making big bucks ..

@ianmorris7485 Жыл бұрын

Just an example of how money is the root of all evil. The richest council in the UK wanted to redevelop the area to be able to sell big plots of land for massive amounts of money, so more expensive properties could be built to "improve" the residents of the area and rake in more council rates on higher value properties. Then to end up doing a refurbishment using shoddy and inappropriate materials that failed to meet any reasonable modern standards for fire safety and save another £1 million pounds plus further highlights the greed of the council. There is little doubt in any reasonable persons mind that the people responsible for the manslaughter of 73 people are the councillors and contractors involved in the refurbishment, and they should spend a long time in jail considering whether the money was worth it. It also highlights the ongoing systemic faults of governments of the UK in addressing the housing crisis in the UK and what is fundamentally atrocious urban planning.

@LauRoot892 Жыл бұрын

Hmm 🤔

@RavenFilms Жыл бұрын

“The lifts did not comply with fire safety rules and were unavailable for fire fighters to use” Is that something common in the UK, to use elevators during a fire? That sounds completely insane.

@LilAngelPrincess95 Жыл бұрын

I can understand the stay in place rule if the fire stay contained to one or two units but the second it started going up the building (no longer contained) I don't understand how stay in place was considered a good plan at all. I was always taught to get out of a burning building regardless of the size of the fire.

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

I know. If there's fire, get out fast no matter what anyone tells you.

@nairsheasterling9457 Жыл бұрын

Nope, doesn't make sense. If a unit is on fire, evacuate the building until the fire is put out. Then you can let people back in.

@Wildrover82 Жыл бұрын

Disgraceful that this can happen in this day and age. The structure is clearly a high risk fire hazards. Criminal negligence it is.

@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

So was 9 / /

@obthales Жыл бұрын

Am I the only one wondering how "stay put" in a building on fire is a good idea? I was a volunteer fire brigadeer at my previous company. As soon as the alarm sound we should ALL EVACUATE the building.

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@cezra833 11 ай бұрын

No! Stay put is the safest method for dealing with a high rise tower that is properly compartmentalised. I live in one of these high rises. There have been fires that have happened while I've been in, that I never even knew about and they have never escaped the flat in which they started because my block is properly compartmentalised. It is far safer to not fill the stairs with lots of people blocking and impeding emergency services. You only evacuate the flats surrounding the one on fire. Of course, if the fire spreads like at Grenfell (which it really, really shouldn't do) then you evacuate the whole building.

@ericweiler6571 Жыл бұрын

This is why building codes are so important. Peoples’ lives are literally at risk

@Jeannette0890 Жыл бұрын

This is so hard to watch. I can't help but to become overwhelmed by emotions. The fear that ran through the people, the trauma that still affects those who survived, the sadness that fills everyone.

@wendycarothers Жыл бұрын

Wait....what?!! No sprinklers?!!! That and the cladding was a disaster waiting to happened

@SMichaelDeHart Жыл бұрын

The council members and contractor ownership should be criminally charged with negligent manslaghter for every death involved. Looks they took the cheapest route on a building they originally wanted to tear down, but couldn't.

@ManxAndy Жыл бұрын

So sad that lessons were not learnt from the Summerland Fire in 1973, on the Isle of Man which until this tragic event, was the UKs worst loss of life by a fire in peace time…..and was mainly due to flammable oroglas plastic cladding….😔

@peartfaldo Жыл бұрын

has NOTHING to do with learning. THEY DONT CARE. Its not them.....SOCIALISM IS A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!

@magiccinema2294 Жыл бұрын

Cheap is fastest but it's the most costly.However, London is also made up of very old buildings that need serious upgrades and safety measures.

@FreeDocumentary Жыл бұрын

There’s this excellent quote in German that’s concise and to the point: wer billig kauft, kauft teuer. Translated: You buy buy cheap crap, you’re actually buying at a steep price. And it’s true. All the cheap crap comes at an extremely high cost down the line. We’ll always pay for the cheap underpaid stuff. Always.

@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

What about WTC7???????

@Chellz801 Жыл бұрын

What a horrible tragedy and still to this day not enough has been done for the victims and those who survived. They set these ppl up for their deaths and didn’t care and in many ways they still don’t. I’m so disappointed by this nonsense, these were vulnerable ppl with families. We have more than enough resources to make sure these things don’t happen, we know how to build fire safe buildings! Why do these things keep happening in an advanced society. I just shake my head. We’ve lost the plot when we put money above human lives. It’s so sick.

@TwoWholeWorms Жыл бұрын

That clip of the firefighters on their way where the guy says "How are we supposed to deal with that?!", tho... :/

@nostalgio697 Жыл бұрын

Sad, really sad 😢 RIP all victims.

@Ena48145 Жыл бұрын

How weird.. I couldn't sleep last night and this horrific tragedy randomly crossed my mind. I started watching videos about it and couldn't stop crying all over again. I will never forget watching it live and feeling so hopeless for so many innocent people and those drying who were trying to make a better life for themselves. Thank you for making this documentary, Grenfell needs to never be forgotten.

@elaineculbert8594 Жыл бұрын

@arm: I’m in Canada but was born in England. I may be thousands of miles away but my heart is always with my homeland. I guarantee you I will never forget it; my thoughts are always with those poor, terrified people! It was just sickening to see silhouettes of the residents at the windows … trapped between fire right outside their window frames and fire coming through their apartment doors! An unreal nightmare!

@morrismwenda9138 Жыл бұрын

Excellent documentary. Well documented. I feel sorry for my pple In Britain

@BonnieDragonKat Жыл бұрын

So the same stuff that caused 100 deaths at the Station Night Club caused this. Will people never learn? Rest in Peace.

@yamerunime953 Жыл бұрын

Maximize the profit, covered skyscraper use plastic, the cost is human souls. 😢

@amberkat8147 Жыл бұрын

In a fire in a high-rise, move down if you can. If smoke's the only problem, try to wet a t-shirt and hold it over your mouth and feel your way down the stairs as quickly as you can while keeping one hand on a railing or wall, because you might trip on someone and fall or get lost if you don't. If you don't collapse you'll eventually make it below the smoke, assuming the fire isn't on the first floor. If it is, get to the lowest floor you can reach and try to get down from a window. Jump, climb, see if people can catch you or at least put down a mattress, whatever. And yeah, smoke is also lethal, most people who die in fires suffocate in their sleep and died before the fire even reached them. But if the building becomes fully engulfed, or just your area is, you'll die either way so you may as well try to get out before either one can kill you.

@borysnijinski331 Жыл бұрын

“Nothing they had ever seen…” (fire brigade)…well I should hope not.

@vincentomae8584 Жыл бұрын

So sad😥

@Xx0Gh0st0xX Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@LouieAdrias-tf2jt 10 ай бұрын

How crazy saying to stay inside while the building is burning thats a insane idea

@tuliiscute Жыл бұрын

It should be mandatory that all tenants of a high rise buildings should be provided smoke hoods by the landlord.

@kevink2986 Жыл бұрын

Is it me or does this feel like dejavu? Because this feels eerily similar to the gas explosion of Ronan Point in 1968.

@josephbennett3482 Жыл бұрын

That tower fire was as a result of a tenants refrigerator fire.

@PeteDavidson-yl3ps 6 ай бұрын

There are building’s around the world built with the most Toxic materials known to man yet upon completion the local inspector’s sign off the occupancy permit…. People should have gone to jail…

@anderikusjuadi Жыл бұрын

So sad, it's reminds me of a old song.... London is burning bring water....

@Most0riginalUsername Жыл бұрын

A lot of buildings in my area have been getting these insulation covers in the recent years, including the one i live in. I hope they did it correctly and not try to save money by doing it cheap May those who passed find peace and i hope this doesn't repeat

@JoyfulJasperJamesCalmClaire Жыл бұрын

So scary and sad

@mariekatherine5238 5 ай бұрын

A terrible tragedy that could have been avoided if people’s safety had taken precedent over money.

@badworld02 11 ай бұрын

The worst building fire ever! I cannot believe how people were still unaware that their building was on fire! What happened to the fire alarm system dude?? This was unbelievably horrifying on so many levels! It's traumatizing just watching this preventable tragedy in the 21st century. Whoever approved and doing the regular fire safety inspection of this building were so questionable I guess. Any latest updates on this case?

@sands7779 10 ай бұрын

No penalties for Celotex using non combustible boards for their combustible insulation RS5000 to pass fire safety tests or Kingspan for using fire safety tests based on a discontinued product with a different spec to the product marketed, or for Celotex and Kingspan representing their products as safe for tall buildings or for Arconic for selling cladding of Aluminium with a polyethylene core , 38:48 the equivalent of wrapping the building in petrol per the enquiry, to Grenfelll even though they knew it was a high rise. Arconic wrote that UK regulations were less restrictive "even if we know that PE material in cassette has a bad behaviour exposed to fire, we can still work with national regulations who are not as restrictive." No penalties for the company applying the cladding with gaps that acted like chimneys for the spread of the fire. 72 dead that we know of.

@HandsONreviews4u Жыл бұрын

Why is it a monument? Why isnt the government allowing engineers to examine the structure. A similar situation in NY when we had a buildings girders were moved by trucks to another location without access to the structure. Seems similar

@71degrees Жыл бұрын

Good comparison. Also, it's interesting that the building didn't fall straight down into it's own footprint 😐

@cezra833 11 ай бұрын

they have been examined on site. And I'm sure debris was taken away and inspected. It didn't fall down because it's made of concrete and not steel, plus there wasn't plane fuel or other accelerants that burn at the temperatures required to take the building down.

@antonys32 Жыл бұрын

The worst thing is, Still UK got the powerful approving authority of many Fire System Products around the world. People trust that they are the most advanced technology to test the products with marks like UL/FM certifications and many more. From now, as Fire systems Specialist think twice about their integrity.

@cathymorrison4953 Жыл бұрын

Sounds Like CORPORATE GREED 🤬🇨🇦🤬

@minetlav5110 Жыл бұрын

Even in the Uk

@lu-dx6oh Жыл бұрын

that 999 call is very suspicious you don't hear any panic or sense of urgency in his voice, also how does a faulty fridge start a fire ???

@quickenmyend Жыл бұрын

Is there any government in the world that cares about the most vulnerable? If there is somebody please let me know. I'm not kidding I really want to know.

@peterxd3610 Жыл бұрын

poor quality is also poor protection against fire and similar disasters

@judgeroybean6930 Жыл бұрын

😢This is the first time I have watched any docu or report about this awful tragedy. Whoever constructed this block of residences, the architect responsible, the Council who owned or ran it and were responsible for the day to day tickover and whoever was the penny-pinching, miser who ordered and saw used 'cheap unsuitable materials' which were NOT Fire Resistant surely MUST face Criminal Charges of 68 (or however many perished) counts of Manslaughter, AND Civil Charges and Named Publicly! Seeing all those poor people waving and screaming for help took me straight back to 9/11.

@walleyehunter8862 Жыл бұрын

The fire department couldn't set up air bags around the building ? It would have giviin people a chance

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

I know. They aren't really to blame though. The whole thing was bound to lead to disaster. Like 911, why didn't a helicopter pick people off the roof? Makes you wonder if they've figured out this problem at all yet. My neighbour (a doctor) refused to stay above the 3 or 4th floor in hotels (I can't remember which floor), essentially not higher than the fireman's ladders reach.

@vanguardzero6828 Жыл бұрын

With all the debris falling…..burning liquid plastics, etc……airbag would have been punctured, wasting the resources to set it up, rather then going internal and making rescues

@amberkat8147 Жыл бұрын

@@Lili-xq9sn Smart of him. I hate the thought of being on high floors in buildings too. The only advantage they have is that in a pancaking event if you're on the top floor you might survive, but in all other disasters you'll just be more vulnerable. Okay, maybe not floods- you may want to be above the ground floor in case of a severe flood. But almost every other disaster.

@modhawk Жыл бұрын

🙏❤️

@johnsimmons7890 Жыл бұрын

the stay inside rule is Pathetic, if you are ever in this situation Do not listen to anyone, get out as safely as you can, having a rule and telling people to stay put is Pathetic and stupendous.

@mikebrzycki2358 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like some very rich people was doing some ethnic cleansing.

@matthew-jy5jp Жыл бұрын

London should have learned from the experience of America and 9/11. It is irresponsible to build buildings like that and send firemen to their deaths or put people in housing that they can't get out of in a fire

@Ihatecabinetmoths Жыл бұрын

Didn’t watch it but I’ll say foam sheathing is to blame

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

That's what made it spread wildly. What caused it literally was a faulty refrigerator. The blame lies with class discrimination where the government etc refuse to construct/maintain safe homes for working class and poor people. Fire standards were non-existent.

@Phil-D83 Жыл бұрын

Government at work

@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

What was 9 / /

@lesliemcclinton7844 Жыл бұрын

All about the wealthy and the Who’s that own Arconic.

@jeffjansen582 Жыл бұрын

Why didn't it collapse like all other buildings that catch on fire?

@Tenenwasser Жыл бұрын

1:30 WHAT?? wtf lol

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

Don't be mean. The man is traumatized.

@attockmrdl Жыл бұрын

Did they found guilty or not yet ? Whoever is responsible for this . Feel sorry to see that .

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

They haven't made the report, essentially the people to blame aren't held accountable .

@attockmrdl Жыл бұрын

@@Lili-xq9sn What an irony! Feel bad to hear that .

@ixlr8677 Жыл бұрын

cashed in all rite. trust ur life to greed.

@Blue3Sky7 Жыл бұрын

Wait! You mean the building didn’t collapse onto itself like the twin towers? Hmmm …

@HandsONreviews4u Жыл бұрын

How can there be absolutely NO BONES FOUND IN THE STRUCTURE after the fire? Can a FIRE THIS INTENSE MELT BONES?? I KNOW FIRES and there would be at least one bone. There are videos that show the debre in the rooms and the fire wasnt that intense. Where are the bone fragments??

@nahnotforme9819 Жыл бұрын

41:24- tell the world you don't know the difference between racism and classism without saying it outright. It's sad to see this kind of nonsense pushed, further dividing the majority of us for political points. Was there only one race of people living there? No, it was a class of good and honest everyday people like the rest of us working everyday jobs to provide for their families. But hey, whatever. Everything and everyone is racist in this day and age I guess.

@amberkat8147 Жыл бұрын

Well the two do often go together. But in today's world classism is the greater problem. Most people aren't racist, but will happily keep supporting a political system that keeps funneling money to the rich at their expense. It's kind of baffling how easily people can can be convinced to vote against their own best interests. Of course when every option is against their interests to some degree that becomes inevitable.

@denisehall5145 4 ай бұрын

It is about class not racism.

@premanandjj8774 Жыл бұрын

Crackpot commando Arthur William Abernethy Devan miser vennila buntong flat Tom Cherian Lungi mama kunjumama Vel Paari sanglimuthu scammers thieves bloody cheats

@daygreenenvironment Жыл бұрын

Hai everyone

@srimathefernando6953 Жыл бұрын

Heeey

@bestkksser Жыл бұрын

Not In My Adult Years Of Dating Have I Experienced Or Seen A Connection So Genuine And Reciprocal,Praying For Longevity Between The Two Of You❤️🇧🇸🔐

@SneakySteevy Жыл бұрын

I thought that fire weaken the steel structure! 😏

@prabhushankar8520 Жыл бұрын

@devekut2 Жыл бұрын

So, we're just going to step over the fact that an Ethiopian immigrant thought it would be a good idea to cook a meal hibachi-style in a modern western apartment as though he were in a mud hut? The building materials certainly made things worse, but I'd say England has bigger problems with who it lets into their country. Here's to their "vibrant" culture!

@thelastresponder Жыл бұрын

You should be able to cook over an open grill or flame and not worry about your entirely building burning down.

@devekut2 Жыл бұрын

@@thelastresponder Really!? On a grill? On the floor? Inside!? What kind of third-world nonsense are you spouting!?

@JohnNYC79 Жыл бұрын

The fire was started by a faulty refrigerator and exacerbated by a type of cladding that was involved in several fires all over the world. People died here unnecessarily and you want to bring on the race politics? You have no shame dude.

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

That's not what caused the fire. It was a faulty refrigerator.

@devekut2 Жыл бұрын

@@Lili-xq9sn That's what you were told.

@tomjohnston3393 Жыл бұрын

Londonistan, Englandstan

@NoNORADon911 Жыл бұрын

WTC7 anybody?

@borysnijinski331 Жыл бұрын

Another of the many “stans”.

@francisnewlandnewland Жыл бұрын

I wonder was this building built for immigrant populations? And was it purposefully built cheaply? Forget being PC just tell the truth.

@wildone8397 Жыл бұрын

Started to get too much involved "& propagating" race, culture & political theories... Had to leave.. with no thumbs up or down.. The cladding information etc, was interesting! As they gradually talked more about the other "information" 🙄.. - I don't need this! All I can say *RIP to the casualties.* That's all......

@pressplaygaming6864 Жыл бұрын

I just want to say something when I see this hole building burning from ground up and it does not collapse How the hell did the twin towers collapse then?

@bitey-facepuppyguy2038 Жыл бұрын

In the twin towers case there were extra complications.....damage from the impacts, dislodged spray-on fireproofing and long-span floor trusses that were uniquely vulnerable to fire attack.

@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын

911, The airplanes that hit the towers were filled up with airplane fuel, they had just begun their cross-country flight. So they were essentially like a bomb exploding within the towers, the fuel flowed down also....it just was too hot and the steel etc.failed.

@nairsheasterling9457 Жыл бұрын

They were hit by boeing 757s, for starters.

@liduck52 Жыл бұрын

When the steel at the point of impact failed, there was nothing to hold up the upper floors, then the upper portion of the building just fell straight down.

@HandsONreviews4u Жыл бұрын

Looks very similar to the way J. udy W ood describes another NY FIRE AND COLLAPSE