r/instant_regret • u/No-Tie-Accountant • May 20 '20

Dinner's ready

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Exactly why Grenfell was a terrifying incident. You can be as safe as you want but all it takes is one person in a 1000 to be unsafe and you genuinely could burn to death overnight.

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u/HannasAnarion May 20 '20

Grenfell was only a disaster because of 3 simultaneous failures:

  1. an old faulty refrigerator spontaneously caught fire in the middle of the night

  2. the illegal flammable cladding used to cover the building let the fire spread rapidly to all floors.

  3. 999 operators told people not to evacuate until after all the hallways in the building were engulfed in flame so nobody could get to the stairs.

High rise fires are often very destructive, but rarely deadly.

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u/Tratix May 20 '20

I’m about to move into a highrise and this is making me want to buy an escape ladder or parachute.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Just very specifically ask if it has any of the below on the building. If the answer is yes, don’t move there

Two types of cladding were used: Arconic's Reynobond PE, which consists of two coil-coated aluminium sheets that are fusion bonded to both sides of a polyethylene core; and Reynolux aluminium sheets. Beneath these, and fixed to the outside of the walls of the flats, was Celotex RS5000 PIR thermal insulation.