Five years on from Grenfell, why are people still being told to 'stay put' in tower block fires?
As Grenfell Tower burned, residents were told to stay in their flats and 72 people died. Five years on, "stay put" remains the policy for fires in most high-rise buildings.
Stay put was repeatedly criticised at the Grenfell Tower public inquiry as the wrong advice for people in enormous danger.Residential tower blocks are designed so that each flat is a concrete box. If a fire breaks out inside one flat, the theory is the occupants can escape, but their neighbours remain safe, because concrete doesn't burn.
Inevitably this means propping open fire doors to the stairwell to run hoses, allowing smoke to spread, making the stairs an even riskier escape route. "I would have seen it on Twitter before anything else," he says. "People over the road were showing pictures with a big fire on the roof. If I'd seen that I would have thought, 'I'm not going to hang about.'"
The inquiry recommended nearly two dozen improvements to firefighting, the management of tall buildings and planning for evacuations. The government has yet to implement many of them, though a fire safety order will be issued this autumn and enacted next year.But in one highly controversial area, ministers say it is not practical to do more.
He says that for every disabled person in Grenfell Tower, there were five residents who could have provided them with potentially life-saving assistance. But the government says it can't recommend the widespread introduction of Peeps, and it looks likely this recommendation of the Grenfell Inquiry will not be fully delivered.
Georgie Hulme's response: "It felt like a real kick in the teeth." She and others told the BBC of their outrage after being described as a "hindrance" to firefighters.The government estimates that on average 11 people in each tower block is mobility impaired. It says Peeps are not practical.
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