Grenfell Tower was a 'death trap' after failures by U.K. government and industry, inquiry says

A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives.

The inquiry said the combustible cladding was used because it was cheap and because of “incompetence of the organizations and individuals involved in the refurbishment” — including architects, engineers and contractors — who all thought safety was someone else’s responsibility. It concluded the failures multiplied because bodies in charge of enforcing building standards were weak, the local authority was uninterested and the “complacent” U.K.

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Grenfell Tower was a ‘death trap’ after failures by UK government and industry, inquiry saysA damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire says decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives in 2017.
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