Episode 211: The Grenfell Tower fire - part two

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It was just a little house fire. It should have gone out in no time. In a safer building, it would have. But within an hour and a half of the first call to 999 that night, Grenfell Tower was fully ablaze.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matarise. And before I get started with the second episode,
0:06.1	in this series, I just wanted to do a quick once over of the usual information. As you all know,
0:14.1	I have put paid requests on hold to the time being. Those will be starting up again shortly.
0:20.4	If you'd still like to help support
0:23.1	the podcast in another way, there is a list of different locations that you can help support
0:30.2	the podcast in other episodes. Patreon is always the best one. I work to get paid by the episode, and this way you get episodes
0:41.8	ad-free and when they get recorded. So all three of the episodes on Groundfall Tower coming out
0:47.2	on Patreon tonight, everybody else is going to have to wait. So if you want to listen to the
0:53.6	episode, the whole episode, all three parts, you're going to have to wait. So if you want to listen to the episode, the whole episode, all three parts, you're going to have to go to Patreon if you want to do that right now.
1:02.8	Like I said in the last episode, I also want to make a point of citing the book, Show Me the Bodies. Great book. Can't recommend it enough. It's also very in depth when it
1:12.8	comes to Grenfell and what happened there. And again, there are quotes with swears and
1:20.3	curse words in them in these episodes. So just keep that in mind if you listen at work or
1:26.8	in front of small kids or somebody that you wouldn't want to hear swearing.
1:32.6	Maybe now's the time to put the headphones on.
1:34.7	So with all of that taken care of, thank you very much for listening and welcome to disaster area.
1:50.0	Episode 2.11.
1:53.5	The Grenfell Tower Fire, Part 2.
1:59.7	June 14th, 2017, 72 deceased, over 70 injured.
2:09.7	By 1.30 a.m. on the morning of June 14th, 2017, the fire at Grenfell Tower had reached all the way up to the architectural crown at the top of the tower, a decorative feature, added
2:15.0	four years prior to the 2016 refurbishment.
2:18.5	The feature consisted of the same type of panels used for the cladding on the rest of the building.
2:24.7	There was no reason for it to be there other than to make Grenfell Tower look more impressive.
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