Grenfell Tower was a ‘death trap’ due to failures by UK government and industry, inquiry finds

FILE – A resident in a nearby building watches smoke rise from the Grenfell Tower building on fire in London, Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

FILE – In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017 file photo smoke and flames rise from the Grenfell Tower high-rise building in west London. FILE – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, centre left, meets people affected by the fire at Grenfell Towers, during a visit to the Westway sports centre which is providing temporary shelter for those who have been made homeless in the disaster in London, Friday, June 16, 2017.

FILE – Mayor of London Sadiq Khan holds a press conference as he visits the scene of the massive fire in Grenfell Tower, in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017. FILE – People hold up photos of their loved ones, victims of the fire, as they leave the Grenfell Tower National Memorial Service at St Paul’s Cathedral, in London, Thursday Dec. 14, 2017.

FILE – Emergency services workers take part in a minute’s silence in front of Grenfell Tower in London, Monday, June 19, 2017. A general view of the remains of Grenfell Tower, after a fire in June, 2017, in London, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in which 72 people were killed. FILE – A resident in a nearby building watches smoke rise from the Grenfell Tower building on fire in London, Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

“Today is a long-awaited day for truth but it must now lead to a day of justice,” he told Parliament. The fire broke out in the early hours of June 14, 2017, in a fourth-floor apartment and raced up the 25-story building like a lit fuse, fueled by flammable cladding panels on the tower’s exterior walls.

It said insulation manufacturer Celotex was unscrupulous, and another insulation firm, Kingspan, “cynically exploited the industry’s lack of detailed knowledge.” Cladding panel maker Arconic “concealed from the market the true extent of the danger,” the report said. London Fire Brigade came in for further criticism for a “chronic lack of effective management and leadership,” poor training in high-rise fires and outdated communications equipment.

After the fire, the U.K. government banned metal composite cladding panels for new buildings and ordered similar combustible cladding to be removed from hundreds of tower blocks across the country. But the work hasn’t been carried out on some apartment buildings because of wrangling over who should pay.

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