There were fatalities from the 22nd floor but were misreported as from the 23rd. I hope I am wrong in thinking there are still questions to be asked about numbers.
The plans actually show the numbering/naming as Ground, Mezzanine, Walkway, Walkway + 1, and then 01 to 20 as being the residential floors. Signing in the building may have been different, lift numbering might have been different too. So it could just be confusion.
There does seem to be a hell of a lot of misreporting / confusion going on.
I have seen one missing person reported as living on the 20th floor, the top floor and the 23rd floor.
He did not get out. But his family did but were being treated in hosptial. That suggests that people were - at least initially - able to get out from upper floors if true. The reports do seem to be consistent that he was the only one from the family who is missing.
Then there is an apparent lack of any name being connected to the 22nd floor in the Daily Fail. Instead it attributes people mentioned elsewhere as living on floor 22 as being on the 20th and the 10th.
Then you have the case of the amazing baby catching from the 10th floor. Nothing is known of the fate of the rest of the baby's family. Did they make it out or is the baby one of those listed as missing by others whilst the family died because of the confusion? There is also reports of a 4 year old being through out of an 8th floor window and surviving. You have a family on the 20th floor being listed as missing, but the two youngest children were found in hospital. How did they get out? One of them could be the 4 year old mentioned above, but there was a slightly older one too. Is it conceivable they were thrown out too? And is 'the baby' actually the 4 year old and the reporting is confused?
The names of the missing circulating in the media total just under 70 from what I can see. These are named people.
So the assumption therefore has to be either some of these did get out and have not been crossed off the media lists or were not in the building in the first place. Or they are not on the police list because of the way the police are compiling their lists. They are likely to have made their initial missing list from people that they KNOW to have been in the building - as in were on the phone at the time of the fire.
It may well be that people who did not make such contact the police are aware of but are being treated slightly differently because of the lack of evidence from the lack of contact to say for certain they were there (I suspect this makes a difference in how quickly they can issue death certificates in the absence of bodies / formal identification). This group is likely to be treated slightly differently and will be more difficult for the authorities.
My suspicion is the numbers will go up, but I think it won't be before there is a lot of anger because of procedure. I suspect in some cases the courts will have to rule on the probability of people being dead rather than the police including them in their numbers. Adding to what is an already desperately awful situation to the community.
The thing is that locals are unlikely to think in these terms or be being given this type of information on how the police are compiling numbers or how things might have to be conducted due to procedure. Not least because of the monumentally poor communication and management of the situation by the local authority.
Nor are they likely to necessarily be aware of if and when some people have turned up. Particularly if survivors are being spread out across London, or Peterborough or Preston as has been suggested by some.
My point is that the media are definitely giving out conflicting information to other media. The police are giving out information which differs to what the media is speculating, perhaps with good reason, but if that is the case, its not being conveyed. The government is saying there is help and money and people will be rehomed in the same area but this is being reported as people being given tenners, the support on the ground not having access to money and people being survivors are being sent all over the place. And the council are just totally awol.
Its the perfect environment for conspiracies to be invented and become Chinese whispers spread far and wide.
That is primarily the product of poor emergency planning rather than anything more sinister. But most of that is inexcusable, preventable and frankly inhumane to those left hanging.