On 31/10/2019 08:23, Roland Perry wrote:
In message l.net, at
19:57:08 on Wed, 30 Oct 2019, Dave Liquorice
remarked:

Good that the Grenfell enquiry may lead to a change in the "in case of
fire, stay put" advice to people in tower blocks.

For Grenfell, as designed and built, that was the correct advice.
Each flat had a 60 minute fire resistance. The orginal fire was
extinguished within the single flat well within 60 minutes.

The problem was that some **** had wrapped the building in highly
flamable plastic, aluminium and insulation that the small flat fire
ignigted.

The problem (with the Fire brigade's command and control) was that they
didn't change the advice to the residents when it was clear that the
fire wasn't being contained in one flat.

They had no way of quickly communicating the change to residents and for
the person in charge, it would have been a huge responsibility anyway.
It is bad enough when you stick to the rules and things go wrong, but
imagine that that person had quickly decided to reverse the rule in
place and even a single person died, they personally would be blamed.
That they eventually changed to evacuating people is majorly to their
credit and bravery in taking personal responsibility.

SteveW