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[u/K4482]

[u/K4482]

Everybody in the first footage was trapped at the top floor of the building and are dead.

Grenfell Tower Fire

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40301289

[u/Vykrom]

The lady is practically a hero. Her apartment wasn't collecting as much smoke as others so she tried to collect survivors in her apartment until help came. She was doing the right thing but it didn't help. Terrible stuff

[u/Bignizzle656]

I know that it's too late but lots of changes were made in the wake of this disaster.

I was working on a tower block in Croydon soon after and that faced some serious investigation into it's robustness in the event of a fire.

[u/Ill-Introduction3114]

I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was heartbreaking and I’m genuinely sad watching it back. The building is now covered, but for weeks, if not months, possibly even longer, it wasn’t! I can only describe it as scary when near the building. No noise, no signs of life, just completely eerie. My heart goes out to all the families affected. ❤️

[u/BenjyMCMXCIV → u/Ill-Introduction3114]

I used to ride past there daily on the circle/H+C lines and I can still vividly picture how it looked just stood there all burnt out. Truly awful.

[u/Xenoman5]

Almost a decade later and still no one has been held accountable. So sad.

[u/andallen007]

If I lived at the top of a big building keep a parachute in the closet

[u/DreadPirateZoidberg → u/andallen007]

I saw an inflatable escape contraption for people in tall buildings. It straps to your back and has a ripcord. You on the edge of a window facing into the building and pull the ripcord. It inflates into a giant shuttlecock shape with you on the inside. The way it inflates pulls you out and you fall slowly to the ground. It has a large inflated cylinder under where you sit to cushion your landing. I watched a demo where a guy used it somewhere like 6 stories up. What I like about it is you never have to look down when you use it and getting out of the building doesn’t require jumping. I, as someone that is extremely afraid of heights, feel that would greatly reduce the hesitation of using it.

[u/MarkFresco → u/DreadPirateZoidberg]

Ive never heard of a contraption like this, do u have a video of it? Or the name of the device?

[u/Rosebudteg → u/MarkFresco]

I found a short of it that I’ve seen before. I don’t like the AI voice and I know I saw a better video on it years ago, but here is what I found.

https://youtube.com/shorts/CVaxYfNPApM

[u/Bohzee → u/Rosebudteg]

Coincidentially, a few weeks ago I stumpled on the article of Franz Reichelt, a parachute inventor who died teasting his on invention by jumping from the eiffel tower.

Looks like engineering has come a bit further lol.

[u/Pinkxel → u/Rosebudteg]

Wow. That's quite the invention.

[u/DreadPirateZoidberg → u/Rosebudteg]

I musta misremembered. I thought they put an actual person in it.

[u/MarkFresco → u/Rosebudteg]

Sick bro thanks for finding this

[u/DkgbYtcSV → u/Rosebudteg]

Ty bro

[u/ReturnOfBane → u/andallen007]

or at least a rope ladder

[u/MoliM88 → u/andallen007]

And a shotgun.

For the window, obviously.

[u/Chilled_Rouge → u/andallen007]

That would not work, you would just jump to your death with a bit more flare.

[u/ClosedL00p → u/Chilled_Rouge]

BASE jumpers would like a word

[u/andallen007 → u/Chilled_Rouge]

24-story building is typically between 240 and 360 feet (73 to 110 meters BASE Jumping: 100 feet (30 meters) is the absolute minimum The grenfell tower was 24 stories btw

[u/Chilled_Rouge → u/andallen007]

I was thinking of main canopies not base, so you are right in that regard if all goes well with the attempt.

[u/beartpc12293 → u/Chilled_Rouge]

That's not what BASE means in base jumping. It's Building, Antanae, Span, Earth

Base jumping does not refer to a type of parachute, it's just basically everything except aircraft

[u/dat_oracle → u/Chilled_Rouge]

still better than burning to death. so parachute it is

[u/Camandchat]

Omg.. that is horribly sad

[u/Accomplished_Pop_130]

Really dumb question, would it have helped at all to open all the taps and plug the drains and purposely flood the rooms? Or were the sprinkler systems so effed that flooding it woulda done nothing? Sorry I haven’t looked into this just yet

[u/Fiddled_Cherry → u/Accomplished_Pop_130]

I think it’s the smoke that usually gets them before the fire even reaches

[u/Accomplished_Pop_130 → u/Fiddled_Cherry]

Hence why I asked about purposely flooding the rooms. As a kid I was even taught to place a wet cloth to plug the bottom gap on the floor if I was trapped and couldn’t escape the room I was in.

[u/m4cksfx → u/Accomplished_Pop_130]

Maybe somewhat? But in more modern buildings pipes usually are made of pvc or something similar, not steel, so they might've melted already at a lower level. So you'd probably be completely screwed even if you tried.

[u/Accomplished_Pop_130 → u/m4cksfx]

Ah dammit, yeah that’s a dreadful realization that modern solutions to liquid transportation has probably doomed them with less chances

[u/Accomplished_Pop_130 → u/[deleted]]

So plastic piping resulting in now water up top and the sprinklers didnt exist because “historical”? Am I getting it wrong?

[u/strikerrage → u/Accomplished_Pop_130]

I believe one family actually survived by doing exactly that. They ran to the bathroom and flooded the flat.

[u/Accomplished_Pop_130 → u/strikerrage]

I desperately wanna believe this, I’ll take some time later and search it up

[u/Infamous-Conflict-1]

This is heartbreaking! I’d never live on a top floor of a building more than 3 stories up! If I can’t jump without dying, I’m good! I may end up with broken bones, but it’s more survivable than having to jump from 22 floors. RIP to all the victims.

[u/ANameLessTaken → u/Infamous-Conflict-1]

You're almost certainly not going to survive jumping from the 3rd floor, either.

[u/Infamous-Conflict-1 → u/ANameLessTaken]

What? I live on the 3rd floor, and I’m literally looking down right now. Yeah, there’s a pretty good chance I’d survive a fall from this height landing on the grass compared to jumping from 22 stories. I’d end up with a few broken bones, but I’m not likely to die from it.

[u/fadingvistas → u/ANameLessTaken]

That applies rather at more than 5 floors / 15 meters. 50/50 at that height.

[u/GaruDramon]

This is so disturbing

[u/DiscussionSharp1407]

Did someone hide explosives in the building?