16-06-2017, 15:58
In industrial premises you get fire drills. Everyone knows where to go. Fire Officers are appointed. Is that practicable in a block of flats, where people are never going to be there at the same time for drills, where English is perhaps their third language, where tenancies are ever-changing ........... ????????
Worldwide there are hardly any deaths from fires where sprinklers have been installed.
Apparently it would have cost just £200,000 to install sprinklers at Grenfell. Apparently there are 4,000 similarly unprotected blocks in this country. So before we even think about the cladding problem or the advising tenants to run downstairs and trample everyone underfoot we need to multiply 200,000 by 4,000, realise that in terms of government expenditure that isn't huge and get the fcku on with installing sprinklers tomorrow. We can do cladding, investigating the renovation project, examining the appropriateness or otherwise of safety advice later. Sprinkler systems exist, get manufacturing, get installing. Re-building 4,000 blocks is going to take longer than even a public enquiry or inquests. Sprinklers we can make a start Monday if someone in charge of the Treasury's magic money tree plays on his abacus and notifies local authorities.
Worldwide there are hardly any deaths from fires where sprinklers have been installed.
Apparently it would have cost just £200,000 to install sprinklers at Grenfell. Apparently there are 4,000 similarly unprotected blocks in this country. So before we even think about the cladding problem or the advising tenants to run downstairs and trample everyone underfoot we need to multiply 200,000 by 4,000, realise that in terms of government expenditure that isn't huge and get the fcku on with installing sprinklers tomorrow. We can do cladding, investigating the renovation project, examining the appropriateness or otherwise of safety advice later. Sprinkler systems exist, get manufacturing, get installing. Re-building 4,000 blocks is going to take longer than even a public enquiry or inquests. Sprinklers we can make a start Monday if someone in charge of the Treasury's magic money tree plays on his abacus and notifies local authorities.