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Originally Posted by Pierre
I'm glad that you obviously have had full access to the results of the inquiry to the disaster than everybody else.
To use a car analogy, the tower was a Mk1 cortina. That had a new paint job, refitted interior and a new sound system.
It looks and feels great, but underneath its still a car built in the early sixties, with a sixties chassis, sixties brakes and suspension.
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Nonsense analogy, of course. If you're going to try and use a vehicle analogy, a better one would be the comparative exterior flammability of the van in the film "Dumb and Dumber", where they took a standard van and covered it in "fur".
If an internal fire had occurred 10 years ago, it would have been put out as it was in this case. If neighbouring flats had also caught fire, they too would have been dealt with in a timely fashion. The fire spread externally and then back into the other flats. How would that have happened with a concrete only exterior? Common sense really.
Internal fire spread is meant to be limited to at least 30mins per flat/floor. The building was engulfed in the space of less than 3hours. That's less than 10mins per floor.