Grenfell Tower Fire Was Waiting To Happen According to Grenfell Action Group Who Have Campaigned For Years
On 20 November 2016, Grenfell Action Group wrote a blog post called KCTMO – Playing with Fire! talking about a major fire narrowly being adverted at the Grenfell Tower in 2013 due to power surges caused by faulty wiring. According to the action group, residents have been living in dangerous conditions, fire was always a risk and that important safety legislation was being ignored.
It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord, the KCTMO, and bring an end to the dangerous living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation that they inflict upon their tenants and leaseholders. We believe that the KCTMO are an evil, unprincipled, mini-mafia who have no business to be charged with the responsibility of looking after the every day management of large scale social housing estates and that their sordid collusion with the RBKC Council is a recipe for a future major disaster.
It is our conviction that a serious fire in a tower block or similar high density residential property is the most likely reason that those who wield power at the KCTMO will be found out and brought to justice! The Grenfell Action Group believe that the KCTMO narrowly averted a major fire disaster at Grenfell Tower in 2013 when residents experienced a period of terrifying power surges that were subsequently found to have been caused by faulty wiring. We believe that our attempts to highlight the seriousness of this event were covered up by the KCTMO with the help of the RBKC Scrutiny Committee who refused to investigate the legitimate concerns of tenants and leaseholders.
The UK has woken up to harrowing footage and awful stories about children being thrown from windows, disabled people stuck on 18th floors and families trapped unable to escape. It’s the stuff of nightmares for all social housing tenants who so rarely have any choice about where they are made to live. What’s worse is that residents have been campaigning about the fire risk in this building for years.
When the awful outcomes of last night’s disaster are finally revealed, every single person who allowed this disaster to happen must be made accountable.