I'm now going to briefly touch on Lakanal House. We've recently had the final
coroner's inquest has happened and the fines have now been in place.
Just to give you background if you're not aware of the Lakanal House fire.
The fire occurred on the 3rd of July 2009 at 4:10 in the afternoon.
It occurred in a flat on the ninth floor of a 14-story block. There were 18 fire
engines on site tacking that blaze at its height. 6 people died and 150
people were rescued. That's in the UK just a few years ago. So what happened?
You'll see that the fire started due to an electrical fault in the TV on the
9th floor of the property. Fire spread up the building to the flats above and
caused the escape route to become smoke logged. Making it impossible for anyone
to get out of the building. Not only that and quite unusually, the fire also spread
down the building because flaming droplets were coming off the building
and catching some of the flats down below. So highly unusually in this case,
fire spread both upwards as it would naturally do through heat and downwards,
which made it a very difficult building to actually evacuate. One of the things I
need to point out is that 1960's tower blocks are not actually designed to be
evacuated. They're actually designed to be a series of fire tight cells.
What you'll see on the plans for this building is that the maisonettes, which
are flats that are split over two floors, had access to a balcony at one level and
one and only one staircase for that entire building.
Which meant that if smoke got into that staircase there was no way out. If it's
designed correctly and maintained correctly it is perfectly safe for
people to remain in their flats and that is still the advice that's given to this
day. So if you're in a block of flats, providing it's designed correctly, been
installed correctly and the fire precaution measures are correct, it is
safe to stay in there even in the event of a fire. What happened? Well one of the
things with a high-rise building is that you cannot evacuate people you cannot
rescued people externally once the building exceeds 30 meters. If you assume
that each storey is 2 to 3 meters in height that's anything probably over
about 10 storeys in height. The fire service have to go inside the building
to be able to tackle that fire and the effects of wind are quite dramatic on a
building what you get to that height. So what was happening was the fire broke
out on a low level and started to be able to spread up the building and the
oncoming wind was able to push it back in. Not only that as I say you had
because the cladding should have been fire rated and wasn't fire rated parts
of the cladding falling off and setting fire to the flats below. Internally there
were areas where fire could spread as well. The top two photos in this screen
show you what we often find. That services have been put in, plumbers have
come in, electricians have come in, builders have come in and they've
smashed holes through those fire resistant walls. The walls that I marked
on that plan earlier that you saw that need to be maintained as fire
compartments. It's essential that any service is passing through those are
correctly fire stopped and the lower photo shows you that. The next thing that stops
the fire spreading internally within the building is fire doors. We often find
that the fire doors our propped open, the seals are not correct on them or in the
particular case that you see here the second fire door appears to be a fire
door but when you actually go up to it closer you'll find that the lower panel
instead of being fire rated it's just a sheet of ply and the top sheet where the
glass has broken so many times is just plastic. That would not hold the fire
back for at least the 30 minutes that's required to the fire service to get on
site and start tackling the blaze. 6 people died in that fire, 150 people had
to be evacuated. Southwark council were responsible for
that building. They have their own in-house team to look after that. These
are not people that are inexperienced in doing it and yet we still found
ourselves in this situation because they didn't check the cladding, because they
didn't check the fire stopping, because they didn't check the fire doors. All of
the things that should have been done throughout. As a result of that they were
fined over £270,000, their costs were
£300,00 they invested £63 million in putting right
not only that building but other buildings within their stock as well.
So it is a huge bill that's something that they've got very wrong.
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