Seventeen people have been confirmed dead in the fire that engulfed a London tower block on Wednesday, emergency services said, adding that the toll was set to rise as there were no hopes of finding survivors. We need to know what happened. "People deserve answers. The inquiry will give them". That is why I am today ordering a full public inquiry into this disaster.
Horrified witnesses said they could see people waving sheets out of the windows as they called to be rescued, with some jumping from the building. "I can confirm six fatalities at this time but this figure is likely to rise", said police commander Stuart Cundy, describing the fire as "truly shocking".
The building housed people from many countries, including Eritrea, the Philippines, Somalia and Sudan.
Speaking from the scene, as family and friends of Grenfell residents continued the desperate search for information about the whereabouts of their loved ones, Mr Cundy said: "There are still a number of people who are receiving treatment in hospital".
"We grow more sad and bleak at every second", Lammy told BBC radio. "In 2015 it had gone up to about 300, and this was put down to poor connections within the consumer unit and with it being made of plastic, which is fuel to the fire".
Experts say the foam panel helped spread the fire quickly with the gap between the cladding and building acting as a chimney. You will see wisps of smoke coming out all day due to the heat of the building and the remaining contents.
"Tragically, now we are not expecting to find anyone else alive", London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton told Sky News.
"Not just the immediate recovery of the bodies we have found but the full search of that whole building we could be talking weeks we could be talking months - it is a very long process".
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Corbyn said Thursday that "the truth has got to come out and will come out" as he visited volunteers helping after the Grenfell Tower fire in which at least 17 people died and hundreds were left homeless. She also paid tribute to the bravery of firefighters who risked their lives to save others.
"This is really important as we account for all those in the building".
Bhupinder Singh, one British Sikh volunteer handling donations, said, "It is times like this that the best of our community comes out. This is where you find out how good it is to live in England and how good it is to be a Londoner". "The speed at which this fire spread would suggest that there has been a serious failure in the design and installation techniques employed".
Harley Facades Limited (HFL) completed the refurbishment work to Grenfell Tower which included installing the exterior cladding.
The exterior cladding and the insulation squeezed between its panels were added as part of an extensive renovation completed previous year.
Earlier, Prime Minister Theresa May met with emergency services during a private visit to the site. Many were woken by neighbours because no alarms had been activated. Large pieces of debris fell from the wrecked building, a 1970s local authority-built block in the working-class area of north Kensington, just streets away from the wealthy homes of Notting Hill.
The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but a tenants' group had complained for years about the risk of a fire. One woman threw a baby out the window to escape the flames.
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