to escort you out, ok? so the london fire brigade has beefed up its training in evacuating buildings. there are new smoke hoods for residents, a new app to track information. you might think stay put would no longer be the policy. but five years after grenfell, the government has reemphasised that when there is a fire people should stay put in their flats, because the walls of the flats protect them. the question is, because of grenfell, will people want to stay or will they want to go? michael is moving his stuff out of his south london apartment because fire swept across its roof in april. thankfully, he wasn t at home. if i had been in the building, i think i would have tried to get out. he would have ignored the stay put advice. i probably would have seen it on twitter before anything else. there was people across the road sharing videos of quite a big fire on the roof. i think if i had seen that, i would have thought, i m not going to hang about, yeah.
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley; More Fiya, edited by Kayo Chingonyi; The Lascaux Notebooks by Jean-Luc Champerret, edited and translated by Philip Terry; and Continuous Creation by Les Murray
A companion to 1998’s The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their work
election in two weeks. on april 25th, we re going to be voting at a second location directly across the building that we just unionizeddi. soso we re we re in the thick of a fight right now, you know, a legal battle. and you know, we just have to p stay grounded in pretty much begin our campaign all over again. i mean, you d think that amazon would be open to a union, wouldn t you? it s a very progressive company . why do t you think they re tryig to thwart you from organizing amazon hasn t been unionized in this country since the beginning of its existence and they re very anti-union. you know,w, they want they created a systemed that hires and fire people. they create a system that they have full control the workingav the working people and you know, having a union obviously brings representation for the workers that benefit w the workers at the bottom like myself, hourly associates entry level workers that don t get the right to negotiate. so forming union gives us the
Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down overnight. There is a huge pile of debris, 12 stories in this apartment building. Balconies that had been sawed in half, and were told that at least one person has died. About 100 units in this building, think of it, 39 years old. The collapse happened before 2 00 a. M. New video shows rescue crews pulling a young boy from the rubble. More than 80 Emergency Teams are on the groundworking to find survivors. We have some sort of before and after video. This is what the building looked like before