Peter Apps

Why disabled people will be forced to stay in burning high-rises

The ‘stay put’ policy is making another catastrophe a distinct possibility

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‘Grenfell is a story about a failed evacuation.’ These are the words of Professor Ed Galea, an internationally respected expert in fire safety and evacuations who, among other things, wrote a pivotal study into the attempted evacuation of the World Trade Centre on 9/11.

But this is something the British state, and particularly the Home Office, appears utterly unable to accept.

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