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30 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The commissioner of the London Fire Brigade today described hearing a colleague refer to Somali residents they had rescued from a fire as 'P**is' and saying they 'breed like rabbits'

insidehousing.co.uk/insight/lfb-co…
Andy Roe was being questioned about an interview he gave the Guardian in which he said people "come back to the station and express themselves in casually racist terms". He was asked to give a concrete example.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
This is the example he gave - where he admitted joking back to the officer with a comment about his own wife Image
Roe set up a review of misogynistic and racist attitudes within the LFB following an inquest into the suicide of a trainee firefighter. He has said he fears his own mixed race daughter may not be treated with "dignity and respect" at a fire station.
Roe also questioned over the below slide which appeared in a training package on taking calls from trapped residents in January 2017. He accepted it was "wholly inappropriate" Image

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3 Dec
On Monday the Grenfell Tower Inquiry will hear opening statements covering the failures of government in the years before the fire.

Here is some of what we already know about one of the most appalling failures of the British state in modern history 🧵
We can start the story in the 1980s, with the government of Margaret Thatcher and the decision to deregulate the building industry with a sweeping piece of legislation that introduced new headline 'standards' instead of local prescriptive rules.
The purpose was clear: to strip away restrictions on industry to allow them to maximise profits. “Maximum self-regulation, minimum government interference,” was how then secretary of state Michael Heseltine sold it.
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3 Dec
Amid the discussion about Kingspan's sponsorship deal with Mercedes, here's a brief run through of what the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has revealed about them 🧵
Kingspan's K15 insulation product was only a very small part of the cladding system on Grenfell, and was only there because of a product substitution. But Kingspan's relevance to the story is larger than that. Lawyers for the families say the firm 'set the precedent'...
... for the use of combustible insulation on high rises.

In 2005, English regulations changed to allow cladding systems to be used on buildings if they passed a 'large scale test'. This opened up a potential backdoor route to use combustible insulation in these systems.
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2 Nov
Report from today at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

Government officials amended national firefighting guidance to include passages on abandoning ‘stay put’ advice after the LFB officers who first drafted it omitted any reference to doing so, inquiry hears

insidehousing.co.uk/news/governmen…
A short explainer of what this important but technical section of evidence has been about.

National fire services set their own local policies. But they are guided by standards set nationally by central government.
The last two days have looked into how the national guidance on high rise firefighting (Generic Risk Assessment 3.2) came into being.

This guidance is important because it did contain passages encouraging the reversal of 'stay put' advice if a fire got out of control
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29 Sep
New: Residents at a 22-storey tower block owned by Clarion in east London were told today they need to move out due to safety concerns

insidehousing.co.uk/news/residents…
This one, by the way, is not about the 2000s/10s industry and government balls up of cladding, it's the 1960s/70s industry/gov balls up of large panel system construction. And not dealing with that despite knowing about it for 50 years (plus)
But a very tough day for an east London community who now face upheaval, home loss and uncertainty about whether they can stay in their community. The one consistent thing with badly built buildings: people suffer.
Read 4 tweets
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8 Sep
Update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:

Any fire risk assessor who does not make the increased risk to disabled high rise residents clear is not making a "suitable and sufficient" assessment, says expert
A large part of this morning spent on the issue of evacuation plans - and what should have been done for residents who were unable to use the stairs to evacuate
As we now know, at Grenfell no specific provisions were made for many disabled people in the tower, and reliance was placed on 'stay put' (something that was and remains true of many other tower blocks)
Read 19 tweets
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3 Sep
I think a question left hanging a few times on Newsnight last night was: Is the current building safety remediation effort an overreaction?

Here's a thread trying to answer it. In a nutshell - it's more a case of trying to solve the wrong problem in the wrong way (1/?)
You have to go back to the beginning a bit to explain how we ended up here. Grenfell was clad in an extremely combustible material called 'ACM'. For the first 18 months or so after the fire, that's all the government was focused on remediating.
But then in autumn 2018, things started to change. Civil servants were sent some testing showing a popular non-ACM system failing pretty badly. There was mounting concern about other materials which were also very flammable.
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