Hello and welcome to Central London when in two hours we will get that second and final report into the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster in which 72 people lost their lives a little over seven years ago. The inquiry has been running more than six years. The culmination of so much work. And, of course, some key people will look for answers and they include bereaved families, families and friends of the 72 people, the survivors of the fire as well as the wider Grenfell Tower community. I spoke to a survivor who told me that while today is important, it will not represent a point of closure for many people who are looking for action, consequences, accountability and a path towards possible prosecution. Some of the bereaved did not want this public inquiry to be the first step. They wanted a Police Investigation to be the first step. They will wait to hear what the chair of the inquiry will say today which might point possibly towards next steps. We will have many Reports Today and keep you up
Hello and welcoMe to Bbc Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. Hello and welcoMe to bbc news. You oin us in Central London you join us in Central London outside the building where for more than six years the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire has been taking place. More than seven years on from the Grenfell Tower Disaster which claiMed 72 lives. Theirfamily their family and friends are hoping for answers from this report. SoMe of them did not want this public inquiry to coMe first. They wanted a Police Investigation to coMe first because they want accountability and want answers. They are looking for a path towards potential prosecutions as a result of what happened on that night. We will have lots of reports through the day and will bring you up to the moMent when the second report is published at 11 and we expect to hear from the chair of the inquiry. There will be reaction from the groups, the community groups that forMed in the aftermath of the fire. We expect a stateMent from th
Moments when i was away from work were certainly the hardest. How have you recovered from that. Mental health is like going to a physical gym and you need to work on it every day and when you stop you fall out of shape. I work on myself as far as Mental Health is concerned. It has been a hard journey. I am now lucky enough to be in a position where i can run my company delivering Mental Health talks to schools and prisons. To help Raise Awareness of the real life impact of poor Mental Health because i consider myself a strong person and always had done. To see how catechism luckily i fell apart in the wake of the fire the cataclysm of how i fell apart in the wake of the fire it was scary to realise you can go from Sound Mind being competent and confident, a good father and confident, a good father and partner, good firefighter and partner, good Firefighter And Friend to then becoming bad in all those areas. I do not say it lightly, i did become a bad parent, i became a recluse. I surro
This second part into the fire has just been published. This second part into the Fire Hasjust been published. The report now runs to 1,700 pages. We arejust about report now runs to 1,700 pages. We are just about to hear from the chair. Let us listen in. My the chair. Let us listen in. My report on that series of events was published on the 30th of october 2019. In the second phase of the inquiry, the panel has been investigating the underlining causes of the fire, with a view to identifying when mistakes were and our terms of reference, and partly because, as our investigation has progressed, we uncovered many more matters of concern than we had originally expected. As we discovered, it is not possible properly to understand the causes of the fire without understanding the way in which knowledge of the materials and methods of construction employed in the Refurbishment Development over the course of time. But the government and others learned about them, and how the regulations and g
Findings. But he started by saying that the simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable and those that lived in the tower were badly failed. Listening to all of that with me as my colleague, ellie price, and we will talk in more detail now about what Sir Martin said. Thank you forjoining me, and just broadly sum up the findings from today. figs just broadly sum up the findings from today. As You Sa , findings from today. As You Say. There findings from today. As You Say, there were findings from today. As You Say, there were some findings from today. As You Say, there were some of. Findings from today. As you i say, there were some of those key phrases which i think were important to draw out from that report and so martin Moore Bick talked about decades of failure from central government and many of the companies involved and many of those various people and groups and organisations who had a role to play in all of this and even the start of the report talks abou