"Unless you can see smoke or flames it is a good idea to stay in your unit".
The ambulance service said 68 people were being treated in hospital, with 18 in critical condition. Chellat said he rang again about half an hour later.
"We just need to know what is being used on apartment buildings, including those being retrofitted are fire retardant and meet Australian standards", he told Nine. "In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale". Firefighters rescued "large numbers", but London Mayor Sadiq Khan said "a lot" of people were unaccounted for.
A number of people last night remained missing following the fire, with their relatives making desperate pleas for information about them. "People have been bringing water, clothes, anything they've got to help, out to the cordon".
Mahad, who was a resident of Grenfell Tower, struggled to get his words out as he tried to describe the bad scenes of people "jumping out of windows" as the fire tore through the flats.
The tower block was recently refurbished at a cost of £8.7 million, with work completed in May past year.
Some people were trapped in the fire, with residents desperately shouting for help from windows on upper floors as the fire spread, some British media reported.
Somebody did, a gentleman ran forward and managed to grab the baby. Tiago Etienne, 17, said he spotted about three children between the ages of four and eight being dropped from an apartment around the 15th floor.
Twelve are confirmed dead, but the death toll is expected to rise.
"We got a call when the fire started", Habib said.
Other witnesses described a white, polystyrene-type material falling like snow from the building as it burned.
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Ruks Mamudu, 69, escaped from her first floor apartment wearing only her purple pajamas and bathrobe.
The group claimed access to the building was "severely restricted" for emergency services and other vehicles and that residents were advised to stay in their flats in case of fire.
"This is one of the richest boroughs in London, so why aren't they doing more to help people?" asked Jade, who declined to give her surname to CNN.
People at the scene spoke of being unable to reach friends or family inside the building or seeing people using flashlights and mobile phones to try to signal for help from the building's higher floors.
In the footage, she can be seen seeking help in the smoke-covered corridor of the block before going back into her home and looking down on the street below from her balcony.
Eyewitnesses said they saw people trapped inside the burning building screaming for help, and shouting for their children to be saved. There are people who would argue that it's too costly and there are other measures that could have been done, but it's a fact that people don't die in sprinkler buildings'.
Glyn Evans from the Fire Brigades Union told a Select Committee on Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs that after the Great Fire of London only horizontal fires were considered and "we do not really recognise the problem of vertical envelopment". It was fire up, up, up.
Residents had reportedly raised fire safety concerns for several years.
"I'm lucky to be alive. I just hope they have got everyone out", he said. "I consider this mass murder". The Grenfell Action Group, a community organization formed to oppose a nearby redevelopment project, has been warning about the risk of fire at Grenfell Tower since 2013. In a November 20 blog, the group predicted that only "a catastrophic event" leading to "serious loss of life" would bring the outside scrutiny needed to make conditions safe for residents. "All our warnings fell on deaf ears and we predicted that a catastrophe like this was inevitable and just a matter of time", the group said in a blog post written after the fire broke out.
Hamid Ali Jafari said that his 82 year-old father had not been seen since the early hours of the morning as the family were trying to escape the blaze. "We will cooperate fully with all the relevant authorities in order to ascertain the cause of this tragedy".
In October 2015 a fire ripped through another KCTMO property, the nearby 14-story Adair Tower in North Kensington, a "serious incident" according to official reports "which resulted in 16 residents requiring hospital treatment for the effects of smoke inhalation".
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