Ladders Came Up Short, and Cost Lives, in London Blaze, Firefighters Say
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By ROD NORDLANDJULY 8, 2017
LONDON — More lives could have been saved in the Grenfell Tower blaze in London
that killed at least 80 people, firefighters say, but a lack of equipment, particularly fire engines with ladders high enough to reach the top floors of the 24-story building, impeded the rescue effort.
West London added that We’ve had years of deregulation, local authority building control deregulation,
cutting back fire-safety departments, allowing developers to almost do whatever they want.
Lucy Masoud said that We just think it’s almost criminal
that an international city like London, the 13th-richest in the world, and our highest ladder only goes up 30 meters, where some third world countries have 90-meter ladders,
Cotton said that A firefighter who was heavily involved in management levels of the incident told me
that a quicker response from fire stations now closed, and fire engines now eliminated, would have enabled them to get people out at earlier stages.
