Kensington District: Fire and Grenfell Tower

kensington district: The blaze early Wednesday in the 24-story building in west London's North Kensington district also injured 79 others, 18 of them critically, and left an unknown number missing, according to Hamilton Spectator. A tenants' group had complained for years about the risk of a fire. Terrified residents of the Grenfell Tower said there was little warning of the inferno that engulfed their highrise apartment building and left 12 people dead a toll that officials said would almost certainly rise. More than 200 firefighters worked through the night and were still finding pockets of fire inside later in the day. In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale, Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton said. A huge plume of smoke wafted across the London skyline and left a burned-out hulk in the working class, multi-ethnic neighbourhood. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.