Grenfell Tower inferno that killed 72 ‘culmination of decades of failure’: UK inquiry

grenfell to fire disaster that killed 72 people was the result of Decades of failure by government and construction industry bodies and the systematic dishonesty of building material firms a final report said Wednesday unveiling the damning findings of an independent probe into the 2017 tragedy inquiry chair Martin moric said the deaths were all avoidable and the victims had been badly failed some of those who played a part in sewing the seeds of the disaster had shown in competence as well as dishonesty and greed he said the fire in the early hours of June 14th 2017 spread rapidly through the 24 story Block in West London due to highly combustible cladding fixed to the exterior starting in a faulty freezer on the fourth floor The Blaze took barely half an hour to climb to the building's top floor with catastrophic consequences the report marks the end of the long running inquiry into Britain's worst residential fire since world