"Many others are receiving medical care".
ALL OUR WARNINGS FELL ON DEAF EARS and we predicted that a catastrophe like this was inevitable and just a matter of time.
London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton told reporters: "This is an unprecedented incident".
"The flames, I have never seen anything like it".
British Prime Minister Theresa May's new chief of staff Gavin Barwell, a former housing minister, promised a review of building regulations covering fire safety following a fatal 2009 fire in another London local authority apartment block.
"Sikh Gurdwaras in London have started collecting and distributing spare clothes, toys, toiletries for Grenfell Tower evacuees", Harjinder Kukreja, a Sikh philanthropist, said".
Meanwhile the condition of the building has been criticized, one local resident at the scene told Arab News access was a problem, making rescue efforts increasingly hard.
The block had recently undergone an 8.7 million pound (R139-million, $11.08 million) refurbishment of the exterior, which included new external cladding and replacement windows.
Flames and smoke billow as firefighters deal with a serious fire in a tower block at Latimer Road in West London.
In 2009, when Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London, caught fire, three women and three children died in what was at the time the worst ever tower block fire in the UK.
"Crews wearing breathing apparatus and extended duration breathing apparatus have been working in extremely challenging and hard conditions to rescue people and bring this major fire under control, " Cotton said.
Horrifying accounts of the fire emerged quickly on local media. "There were even young children banging on the windows", she told CNN, adding she could hear screams as the hours went by.
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Police have announced the death toll at the Grenfell Tower blaze in London now stands at 12.
They claimed "a temporary notice stuck in the lift and one announcement in a recent regeneration newsletter" informed them they should remain in their flats in the event of fire.
Edward Daffarn, a 55-year-old who lived on the building's 16th floor, said the fire alarm didn't ring.
A group reputedly comprised of area residents had been criticizing KCTMO's management since 2013, publishing various blog posts saying that the building would suffer a disaster if the company did not take action.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared the fire a "major incident". "At its height, pretty much the entire building appear to be ablaze, with huge flames of several hundred feet running up the side of the tower", he says.
Witnesses said the fire spread rapidly up the building, with some suggesting it was fuelled by gas.
Firefighters rescued 65 people from Grenfell Tower in north Kensington, after they were called at 00:54 BST.
Fire crews from north Kensington, Kensington, Hammersmith and Paddington and surrounding stations were at the scene with the blaze burning from the second to the top floor.
( Jack Hardy/PA) The Westway Sports and Fitness Centre was turned into a refuge for residents evacuated from the flats and left destitute by the blaze.
"Currently we're focusing on helping those residents and London Fire Brigade is investigating the safety of the tower's structure but we will issue a further statement in due course".
If you are concerned about family and friends, an emergency number has been set up - 0800 0961 233.
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