Sort your the thread might have moved on, just realised I've been writing and rewriting this for ages...
Please let's be careful with arguments and rebuttals that end with comments that appear to be blaming the residents for the fire?
Not talking about the general discussion of factors, or that we should or shouldn't post about this stuff, but a couple of the posts strike me on the raw... after the people being talked about, well, some of them are dying right at this moment. Right now.
Maybe it's the fear of how this could be twisted by people who have their own motives for wanting to blame poor people for the way they live (crassly said but hopefully you know what I mean)...
I'm sure human error has it's part somewhere, it always does, but really, the residents 'errors' won't ever be the sole cause of such a massive and uncontrollable blaze.
I suspect the answers will lie in many places.
And the decision of the council to do priorities aesthetics over safety cannot be glossed over or dismissed. Residents were begging them to look at safety concerns, they weren't listened to and nothing was done... except a multi million pound project to make the building look prettier from the outside. It's an old question but eternally relevant... 'who benefits?'