Five Years Since the Grenfell Fire
In June 2017, a catastrophic fire in Grenfell Tower killed seventy-two people and should have changed housing standards for good. Instead, the establishment has failed victims — and resisted all efforts at change.
Visual tributes are left to the 72 dead at Grenfell Tower on 14 2022 in London, England. (Guy Smallman / Getty Images)
One July afternoon in 2009, a broken TV caught fire on the ninth floor of a fourteen-storey tower block in South London. Lakanal House had no sprinkler system, and the cladding panels fitted outside weren’t fire resistant. In the ensuing blaze, six lives were lost. Three of them were young children, one of whom was […]
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