This video from England is called Blueprint For Disaster S01E06 The Kings Cross Fire Documentary.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Next fatal blaze ‘matter of time’
Saturday 18th November 2017
FBU’s terrifying warning on 30th anniversary of King’s Cross fire
UNIONS have issued stark warnings about fire and safety funding cuts as they prepare to mark the 30th anniversary of the King’s Cross fire.
The fire, which killed 31 people and hospitalised more than 100, ripped through the Underground station on November 18 1987 before a fireball engulfed the ticket office.
Thirty engines and crews from 22 fire stations rushed to the inferno, which was sparked by a lit match on a wooden escalator.
A subsequent inquiry led to the resignation of senior London Underground (LU) bosses and the introduction of stricter fire safety regulations.
But recent damning statistics from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) have revealed the full scale of government cuts to London’s fire service which mean the service could not muster similar resources today.
Of the 22 stations that responded to the Kings Cross blaze, 13 fire engines have since been removed from service and six stations have closed entirely.
One of those was Clerkenwell station which saw tearful firefighters embrace as it was closed by former London mayor Boris Johnson in 2014 as part of an “efficiency savings” drive.
The union says more than 1,400 firefighter jobs have been axed and that this seriously hampers the capability of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to respond to a similar tragedy.
It called for the government to stop risking lives by making cuts to fire and rescue services across the country, demanding additional cash in next week’s Budget.
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack — a former London firefighter — highlighted the closures of Clerkenwell, Belsize, Westminster, Manchester Square, Kingsland and Silvertown fire stations, all of which sent fire engines to King’s Cross.
Fire crews having to travel from further afield would also delay the response to a similar disaster, he said.
Mr Wrack added: “It is obscene that we are having to highlight this extremely concerning depletion of emergency response resources in our capital in the very same year as the dreadful Grenfell Tower fire took more lives through fire in London than any since World War II.
“How many more lives have to be put at risk or even taken before the government will sit up and listen?”
LFB spokesman Tom George, who will be attending the memorial service, said: “The King’s Cross fire was a game changer for the Brigade and the UK fire service, just as the Grenfell tragedy will be 30 years from now.”
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary Mick Cash said the fires at King’s Cross and Grenfell Tower both stand as “a reminder to everyone that safety and regulation must remain our watchwords regardless of what the bottom line says on a set of accounts.
“This weekend’s Kings Cross Fire commemoration event will reinforce in all of us the need to be ever vigilant in respect of the safest possible staffing, standards and legislation to avoid a repeat of this tragedy,” he added.
TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes warned against £3 million of cuts to LU and Transport for London’s health and safety budget.
He will meet London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ask him to pause the cuts and to conduct a safety audit of all of London’s stations.
“Without one, another preventable disaster like Kings Cross fire is just a matter of time,” he said.
The memorial service at King’s Cross Station will start at 11am and be attended by firefighters, transport workers and survivors of the tragedy.
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Saturday, 18 November 2017
Fire & Underground staff cuts! – Could London cope with another King’s Cross fire?
SAVAGE Tory cuts to the fire service have led the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to ask the following ominous question: ‘Could the London Fire Brigade cope with another King’s Cross fire in 2017?’
Today is the 30th anniversary of the tragic King’s Cross fire, where on 18 November 1987 a fire broke out on the escalator at about 7.45pm. The fire claimed the lives of 31 people and left over 100 more with injuries.
A special joint commemoration event takes place at 11am this morning at King’s Cross station where the FBU, RMT, ambulance services and Camden Council will be among those represented. An inquiry into the fire determined that it had started because of a lit match being dropped onto the escalator.
The fire seemed minor until it suddenly increased in intensity, and shot a violent, prolonged tongue of flame and billowing smoke, up into the ticket hall. At the time, 30 fire engines from 22 stations sent crews to the King’s Cross blaze.
Since 1987, six of those 22 stations have now been shut while 13 fire engines have been axed, all because of Tory cuts. In 2014, Boris Johnson, who was Tory London Mayor at the time, closed down ten fire stations across London. Similarly, in 1987 there were lots of London Underground station staff present doing their best to assist people during the fire.
Now, because of Tory cuts, most of the London Underground ticket offices have been closed and hundreds of station staff’s jobs have been axed. The FBU gave the following stark warning: ‘The capability to cope with a repeat of the King’s Cross fire has been severely hampered by cuts to life-saving fire and rescue service resources in the capital. More than 1,500 London firefighter jobs have gone as well.’
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the FBU, himself a former London firefighter, said: ‘How many more lives have to be put at risk, or even taken, before they will sit up and listen? Six stations that responded to King’s Cross – Clerkenwell, Belsize, Westminster, Manchester Square, Kingsland and Silvertown – have all been shut down.
‘This means that efforts to cope with another similar incident could be severely hampered, as there would be reduced capacity but also fire crews would have to travel from further afield which would delay the response. It is obscene that we are having to highlight this extremely concerning depletion of emergency response resources in our capital, in the very same year as the dreadful Grenfell Tower fire took more lives through fire in London than any since World War Two. The government must address the issue of cuts to fire and rescue services up and down the country in the budget next week. It needs investment, not more cuts.’
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘RMT will be attending the joint commemoration event today and our thoughts will be with all of those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic event which still resonates throughout the transport industry thirty years on.
‘The King’s Cross fire stands alongside the appalling disaster at Grenfell Tower as a reminder to everyone that safety and regulation must remain our watchwords regardless of what the bottom line says on a set of accounts.
‘RMT has pledged to continue to fight cuts to jobs and budgets across London underground, the wider rail industry and every sector that this trade union organises in. We will oppose with every tool at our disposal any moves which compromise the safety culture or water down the regulatory framework.
‘This weekend’s Kings Cross fire commemoration event will reinforce in all of us the need to be ever vigilant in respect of the safest possible staffing, standards and legislation to avoid a repeat of this tragedy.’
https://wrp.org.uk/news/13827
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Friday, 17 November 2017 71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy
THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV showed 223 people escaping the fire.
The number of victims includes baby Logan Gomes, who was stillborn in hospital on 14th June, the day the 24-storey blaze broke out. Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: ‘I have been clear from the start that a priority for us was recovering all those who died, and identifying and returning them to their families.
‘Specialist teams working inside Grenfell Tower and the mortuary have pushed the boundaries of what was scientifically possible to identify people. There was only one way in and out of the tower and (CCTV) footage shows 223 people came out and survived.’
He said not all 223 people were residents, some were visitors, and some residents were not in the tower at the time. In June, the Met had a list of 400 missing people.
Meanwhile, around 227 children from Grenfell Tower and neighbouring blocks are still living in emergency accommodation almost five months after they were made homeless by the fire. In total 320 households are still living in hotel accommodation, the report by the Grenfell Recovery Taskforce adds. Only 26 of the Grenfell families are in permanent accommodation.
https://wrp.org.uk/news/13826
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