Episode 212: The Grenfell Tower fire - part three

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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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 I'm actually not going to go through the whole
0:05.0	rigmarole of the housekeeping once again, but I am going to say that at some point, I realized
0:10.1	that Professor is somewhere in the background eating snacks. And so you may hear some crunch,
0:15.9	crunch, crunching going on in the background. It's not me eating an entire box of triscuits, although I have been known
0:22.0	to do that when I've had an edible and I'm curled up in bed and I don't want to go anywhere or do
0:26.4	anything. But he is either eating peanut butter cookies or freeze-dried chicken hearts. Do with that
0:34.4	information what you will. He actually likes the chicken hearts better, and I have a one
0:38.7	pound bag of them in my kitchen, which makes me feel like some sort of horror movie character.
0:46.1	So it's not cute. It's disgusting, and I hate it, but it's his favorite treat, so he gets them.
0:54.0	I would also like to thank you for making it this far into the three parts of the Grenfell Tower
1:04.8	Fire story. I know it's very difficult, very frustrating. It's very annoying to hear some of this information and know full
1:14.6	well that there were people who could have stopped something or done something and did not.
1:20.5	But we're just going to keep going. We're going to chug, chug, chug along and get this thing over
1:26.4	with. So with all that taken care of, thank you very much for listening, and welcome to disaster area.
1:38.0	Episode 212, the Grenfell Tower Fire, Part 3, June 14th, 2017.
1:52.4	72 deceased, over 70 injured.
1:57.5	There would need to be an investigation into what turned a small kitchen fire into a conflagration that killed over 70 people.
2:05.4	But from its earliest moments popping up on social media, the fire at Grenfell Tower reminded plenty of people of another eerily similar fire in a London Tower block.
2:17.2	Lacanall House in Camberwell was 14 floors of council housing
2:21.9	built in the late 1950s, and it was just as questionably maintained, to put it mildly, as Grenfell
2:28.5	had been. And just like with Grenfell, a recent refurbishment added combustible materials to the
2:33.8	outside of the building.
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