Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
So sad to see that Tower Block going up like that.I can not add to that only to say I feel like yourself so sorry for the many family,s living there
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
Just seen pictures, looks like a scene out of a horror film. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be in the building.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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#3
This was an awful thing to wake up to this morning. Sadly there are fatalities I dread to think how many will eventually be confirmed, unfortunately I expect it will be a high number .
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
Sorry but no one should have to live in buildings like that, they know there is a fire risk building that high, the water can not reach that high, and all we can do is pray for the ones living there and the firemen who are trying to put it out.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#5
sad,bad news,7 confirmed dead so far,condolences to the famlys concernd.
strangly enough towering inferno is being broadcasted on Friday at 2000hrs on tcm.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
The block had undergone a massive refurbishment over the last two years but the fire alarms didn't go off!!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#9
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:The block had undergone a massive refurbishment over the last two years but the fire alarms didn't go off!!
If I heard correctly from one of the residents the alarm was going in the stairway but could not be heard in the individual flats. Cladding the outside with plastic cladding "to make it look nice" also could also have been part of the problem.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
The building its self must have been put up very good or it would have come down with all the heat etc,but as for the refurbishment we will have to wait and see but the cladding on the outside of the building might play a big part in why the fire took hold and moved up the building like it did,but we will have to wait some weeks before we know that.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
Latest news is that 74 were hospitalised with 22 in a critical condition - 6 hospitals involved. The local community including churches and mosques are doing great work in taking people in and providing them with food and water.
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Bob Whysman
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Unbelievably sad. What next?
...........................................2017 is going to be remembered for all the wrong reasons I fear.
It's good to see people rallying round again, not forgetting the Police, Fire and NHS services who are pulling out all the stops once again in extremely difficult circumstances.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#13
How tasteless to post the above on this page.
Personally I would like to see the above posts and person removed from this forum.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#14
I don't want to fuel this crazy pawel g as Jan says this is a tasteless post at this time
shame on you
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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#15
Frrustaratingly corbyn and Harman are both using this for political gain, inappropriate and plain wrong.
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They are reds what do you expect from these horrible pair ???????*
Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
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I don't agree with deleting posts. I don't know what was said but leave them there and let's judge and expose people.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#18
Thank you Chris for doing that.
David if you had seen the first post and following posts by a new brand new member in this case I think you would have agreed with them being deleted.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
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Jan Higgins wrote:Thank you Chris for doing that.
David if you had seen the first post and following posts by a new brand new member in this case I think you would have agreed with them being deleted.
OK Jan fair enough