27 storey block of flats on fire in London.

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BBC link. Holy shit, almost the entire building is ablaze. Hope everybody got out safely.

Apparently a large number of people are unaccounted for. There's also loads of reports of people flashing their phones on the top floors and people shouting that they're stuck inside

I can't get my head round the fact that a building of that size has no integral sprinkler system?! Surely it's a H&S requirement and older buildings should have been retro-fitted years ago.

This will go down in history alongside the Kings Cross and Bradford City Football Gound fires. I just hope that it leads to an upgrade in requirements/standards, though obviously too late for the poor people that live there.

This is awful. Bbc just said 30 have been taken to hospital. There's a lot more than 30 people living there let's hope a lot of people got out ininjured. Apparently the block is lurching to the left now too.

A resident who got out has just been on the news saying the fire alarms didn't go off. He was only woken up by screaming and neighbours banging on his door.

Where will they put the survivors?
They will be scattered across the country. They wont be rehomed in that part of London.
What about all those uninsured?

Its just terrible.

London Ambulance Service had stated 30 by ambulance to 5 hospitals.

No word on walking wounded, nor on number who got out unscathed (and there are some, as one resident giving interview to BBC right now)

Reports of people, trapped, and of people jumping (interviewed resident said one jumper, from 5th floor, is OK.)

Several road closures - cordon is now wider than earlier because of fears the building will come down. Also some Tube closures for same reason (according to BBC, but not yet on TfL page)

Awful just awful. 120 properties according to tv. That's a lot of,people. I hope they are all safe.

Oh god this is horrific. Those people so badly let down. They shouldn't have to be banging on doors why no fire alarms :(

Thoughts are with the survivors and families and friends of those poor people who didn't make it out.

To all the men and women in the emergency services out there... Be careful

This is horrific.

Utterly horrific, 24 floors, six flats on each?
Very, very sad, little likelihood of survival. My thoughts are with everyone involved.

Absolutely horrific. Someone up thread said there's 11 floors of flats, but I thought it was a 24 storey building? Would the rest of it have been empty then?

Absolutely horrific. Someone up thread said there's 11 floors of flats, but I thought it was a 24 storey building? Would the rest of it have been empty then?

25 floors not sure where i got 11 from

This is awful.

Horrendous scenes. Can't begin to imagine how scary it must have been for those trapped.

Even those who have got out have lost everything.

Ah ok MrsJayy I was hoping maybe some was office space or something, so probably empty at that time. Truly awful. I can't imagine how anyone on the top floors would get out

Ah ok MrsJayy I was hoping maybe some was office space or something, so probably empty at that time. Truly awful. I can't imagine how anyone on the top floors would get out

The eyewitness accounts are unbearable .

(Last emoji was meant to be sad face, not a bottle. ...)

Bloody horrendous, felt sick watching it on the news

There are no statements from the emergency services, other than the ambulance service on numbers taken to hospital. So nothing on cause or other casualties.

Establishing who made it out and who is missing it going to be tricky.

120 flats (27 storey building) estimated number of residents c.500, including the elderly and families.

On a practical note, if fellow Londonders are reading: There is no service on Circle and Hammersmith and City lines between Edgeware abroad and severe delayed to the rest of the line.

2012 planning proposal www.rbkc.gov.uk/idoxWAM/doc/Other-960664.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=960664&location=VOLUME2&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1 Page 11 says something about changes to external stairs although that might have been to make it safer in case of fire, not worse. Hard to tell from the document.

That poor old guy at the window. Seems a bit off they are showing him on tv naming him. Feel sick watching this.

I'm a housing officer for a non London borough. The fire service advice for our tenants in large blocks is to stay put and wait to be rescued. We've taken that on good faith and have given that information to all our tenants. The thinking is that it's more dangerous for the elderly, families, children, babies to be panickstrickenly trying to get down many many flights of stairs, it can cause pile ups and more deaths.
This fire is horrendous. Hundreds will have died. I am now terrified that fire service advice is wrong and our tenants are at risk.

Horrific. I feel sick having read that blog. 600 people lived there according to BBC.