Grenfell Tower, North Kensington - My Thoughts Are With Families and Victims

I woke up this morning to great sadness that the block of flats called Grenfell Tower in North Kensington had gone up in flames. Not only I was just saying that they seemed to have a sense of peace and quite about them, but I've had a feeling that something was bound to happen, wether it was a terror attack or something just so simple like this.

No matter how hard the fire services, ambulance services and the police services tried to save lives, there wasn't enough man power to tackle the blaze. They still needed more fire services; fire services that Boris Johnson and Theresa May had cut in the last few years, which led to this horrible disaster.

Why spend £10 million on a 1979 building? Yes, it may have needed doing but you're not the ones going to be living in the block, I've always hated those windows and thought that if something happened like a fire, people would have trouble getting out. What's more, there's no fire escapes to get out of the building; we always get told about health and safety all the time, but clearly it doesn't register with the council or the government, does it?

The most horrible thing is when you're the victim of any disaster; you will lose someone, your house or something that means a lot to you. I keep on saying the more disasters that we have the more the government keeps on apologising for what has happened; yet they don't do anything about it. We as citizens and local services have to pick up the pieces and join forces because the government is so full of themselves to the point that they don't care, especially Theresa May.

The victims who have been effected and the fire brigade need the support and satiability to focus on the whole matter at hand. From providing care, to finding new places to live, to having a place to grieve and most importantly to finding out how and why it had happened. Victims won't be able to return to their homes; children don't know if their parents are alive or not after they sacrificed themselves for them.

How Safe Was the Tower Block?

The local Grenfell Action Group had claimed, before and during the refurbishment, that the block constituted a fire risk and residents had warned that access to the site for emergency vehicles was "severely restricted".In February 2013 residents warned fire safety equipment, including fire extinguishers, had not been tested for 12 months.KCTMO said it was aware that concerns had been raised historically by residents and they will form part of its investigations.The tower block was given a medium fire risk rating - defined as a normal fire risk - in 2016 following completion of the refurbishment by the London Fire Brigade and Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council.The council insists the block has been regularly inspected, but London Mayor Sadiq Khan said safety and maintenance issues would have to be looked at.Concerns raised about Grenfell Tower 'for years'Geoff Wilkinson, a fire and building inspector, told the BBC that the Grenfell Tower block "didn't perform in the way you'd expect a building to perform" once it caught fire as "you'd expect it to be contained to an individual apartment"."Something has gone dramatically wrong here," he said."

Excerpt from the BBC news website - see more here.

If this could all have been prevented by administrators hearing people's voices over the past few years, if the government had listened to the people in the affected areas, or if the government stopped apologising for what has happened and actually do something about it to make us all safe then it would be fine. I will not stop campaigning for people's voices to be heard; until something gets done about it, I am a one man show at the moment but I will get people's voices to be heard one way or another.