We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. We are united in our shock. We are united in ouranguish. An we are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Welcome to this Special Edition of Bbc World News as firefighters in west london are still at the scene of a horrendous fire that has killed at least 12 people. The blaze at the 2a storey tower block began in the early hours of wednesday morning. Many people are still missing and the police have warned the number of dead is expected to rise significantly. Our special coverage begins with this report from our uk home editor, mark easton. Oh my god, theyre screaming it is a tragedy that plays to our darkest fears. There was smoke everywhere, literally everywhere. There was people downstairs, bits of the block, cladding, falling off the block. That was on fire. Screaming. People screaming. It wasjust people jumping out, literally. And putting sheets down to try to ge
We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. We are united in our shock. We are united in ouranguish. An we are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Welcome to this Special Edition of Bbc World News as firefighters in west london are still at the scene of a horrendous fire that has killed at least 12 people. The blaze at the 2a storey tower block began in the early hours of wednesday morning. Many people are still missing and the police have warned the number of dead is expected to rise significantly. Our special coverage begins with this report from our uk home editor, mark easton. Oh my god, theyre screaming it is a tragedy that plays to our darkest fears. There was smoke everywhere, literally everywhere. There was people downstairs, bits of the block, cladding, falling off the block. That was on fire. Screaming. People screaming. It wasjust people jumping out, literally. And putting sheets down to try to ge
i have never seen nothing like it before. i hope i don t have to go through it again. it is devastating to see the stretchers and the people who died, kept coming out on stretchers. and the puppies laying in the exits, the dogs and all this. it s really sad. i don t know nobody in the building. i stayed to myself. buff it s really bad. i feel bad for the families. i give all my love and blessings go out to the families, you know, to their loved ones. daisy, you mentioned the exit stairs were not lit. there is also a question about doors that should have been self-shutting, right? doors that should have closed on their own, fire doors, to keep smoke and fire in certain places. exactly. can you shed any light on that? what were the condition of doors in the building that were supposed to close? did the doors close? yes, they closed. but when the guys go and make tkhr rounds in the building, the
and i didn t know that besides my apartment was another exit elevator. if i knew that exit stairs. stairs i m sorry. if i knew that, maybe, i would take that one. and i can tell the story right now. well, either way, you got to the bottom. thank god. what happened when you got down? i went to the when i open the door beside the elevator, i don t know what happen in there. if it s something else, an apartment or whatever, i don t know. in that moment, i opened the door. and i, finally, find or found or whatever the stairs. i just started to go down, fast, fast, fast, fast. and then, you got down. what was it like, when you reached the bottom? well, the this when she started going down the stairs, chris yeah, andy. from the sixth floor to the fourth floor, the building