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Episode 302 - Grenfell Tower

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The Problems With Fire Doors in Tower Blocks

The London fire brigade carried out an inspection seven months before Grenfell Tower and found that the TMO had still done nothing about the fire doors. After the fire, councils around the country started panicking and checking the cladding on their tower blocks. But enormous numbers of them were fitted with the highly combustible ACM panels. Camden Council ended up moving 700 people out of their flats overnight, just six days after Grenfell, in order to make their tower blocks safe. And living in a high rise is like knowing it's made of petrol. Yeah.

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