The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that 17
people are dead, but the death toll is expected
to rise, after the huge fire outbreak that engulfed
a 24-storey residential apartment tower in West
London. These first pictures show the complete
devastation left behind. Blown out windows,
melted kitchen tables and washing machines,
and other personal belongings were completely
destroyed inside the apartments.
Firefighters are carefully going through the
building to search for survivors, but it's still too
risky for now to try to recover them from the
upper floors of the unstable tower. Structural
surveyors, Urban search and rescue specialists
would inspect the building today and once it's
declared safe, a full search would take place.
London fire chief Dany Cotton said;
"Tragically now we are not expecting to find
anyone else alive. The severity and the heat of
the fire would mean it is an absolute miracle for
anyone to be left alive. Some of the internal
structures are not regarded as safe at the
moment, however the central core is, so my
firefighters have been up to the top floor last
night, they have done the initial brief search
from the doorways. So although we've been up
there we haven't managed to do a
comprehensive search and until we can make
the building safe then I really don't want to risk
the safety of my firefighters at this moment in
time."
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