In message , at 20:50:21 on Sat, 1 Jul 2017,
bert remarked:
Wasn't gas for high rises banned after Ronan Point ?

Only for ones using that particularly vulnerable style of
prefabrication.

Sorry to all the engineers and architects out there, but if you had asked
me at the age of 16, if gas in a tower block was a good idea, I would
have thought you were joking.

Many, many years, my instinctive misgivings about the idea are only more
entrenched.

How many tower blocks collapsed after Ronan Point, because of gas
explosions?
How many tower blocks have caught fire because of a fridge freezer
explosion?

Quite a few I expect. The London Fire Brigade say they attend two tower
block fires a day, and there have been previous reports of dodgy brands
of fridge[/freezer]. It'd be strange indeed if a fridge hadn't been the
source of a fire in a tower block before.

Ah yes...

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news...ckle-blaze-in-
bermondsey-block/

"Six fire engines and 35 fire fighters tackled a fire caused by a fridge
at a high rise block"

and earlier in 2011:

https://www.ifsecglobal.com/warning-...re-risk-after-
tower-block-blaze/

"Beko fridge-freezers manufactured between January 2000 and October 2006
are at the centre of the safety warning, and it is thought as many as
500,000 could be in use. London Fire Brigade say there have been 20
fires in the capital alone involving the fridge freezers since 2008,
which have seen one person die and 15 people injured."
--
Roland Perry