authorities are contacting the next of kin of the people who died at the moment and we know that the fire and police investigations have continued to investigate the cause of the fire and they began that yesterday at around 630 when the fire was brought under control and extinguished and they have been working ever since and that. we heard from local people who are simply trying to get their head around what happened when fire broke out. they cannot make sense of it and it could take a long time before we know what happened. as well as the fire and safety investigators, the police investigators, the police investigators, they have been structural engineers on site at the new county hotel in central perth, trying to assess the safety of the building. we spoke to many passers by and a member of staff who was on duty on the night of the fire at the hotel and he declined to go on camera but did explain how he was woken in the early hours of monday morning at around 5:35am and managed to ge
refurbishment of this building, placing cladding on the outside which helped spread the flames on the night of the fire. we are talking about materials manufacturers, fire safety co nsulta nts, manufacturers, fire safety consultants, architects, the council and also the government about the regulation of fire safety. right at the beginning, the most senior barrister at the inquiry, richard millett kc, warned there could be a merry go round of buck passing. today in a strong attack on the companies, he said the merry go round still turns, the companies are still blaming vari blaming each other. this week we saw cladding and insulation manufacturers saying their products could have been safely used on a tall building like grenfell if the designers and architects had effectively done their jobs properly. there are many views about that, and they have been expressed at the inquiry. the chair of the inquiry has to untangle all of this. his report is likely to take a year
here so desperately want to see are not expected any time soon they can only come out of a separate investigation that s being led by the police the inquiry report criticises the fire brigade for a series of bad decisions on the night of the fire with disastrous consequences but many people blame the local council they say complaints made before the fire were ignored and that they didn t feel safe. when the facts were neglected totally neglected for decades they had intention to sell it and therefore they were just probably waiting to phase us all out spent minimal money on it and gave it minimal attention because it was of minimal worth to them at the time as well we going full occurred in a context of cuts in the context of privatisation in the concepts of deregulation and in a context of. residents of social housing will not listen to. local
important that we say individuals in the told to fight for justice has left many survive a strained how meade wants to go back to work but says he confines the strength he s asking for more psychological help. it s like he does just to cut you working and helping people that says. this is what i m going to do for the rest of my life help as much as i can. helping others because on the night of the fire was unable to rescue his friends from the burning building says though he no need to help themselves and try to come to terms with the haunting image that is ground for us hala. more than one hundred years ago british soldiers brought the so-called binning bronzes to europe from nigeria now a growing number of people are calling for their return because they are much more than just value pieces of art. scepter for the new royal
occupancy which would have required sprinklers and alarm systems. and then on top of that. there was a use of an ablssembl use that occurred on the night of the fire. so as you can see there s been changes made to the building outside of the eye of the local building department which turned into the perfect storm and here we have now a large loss of life. in the early part of the week it was clear people in this community knew people were living there, they knew people were performing, they were using it as a mixed-use sprays what do you make of him telling us it was budget cuts and firefighters were laid off. is that does that sound right to you? well, when you look at the size of the city of oakland and the comparison to the number of