This book gives a firefighter’s perspective of the deregulation that caused the tragedy and describes what firefighters were confronted with that June night in 2017. It places that deregulation chronologically alongside a career that spanned three decades including nine years in the training department of the London Fire Brigade.

Jan 1, 2022 · A devastating look at the numerous failures that contributed to the Grenfell tower fire in 2017 that caused the death of many residents, including the elderly, the disabled, babies, young children and family pets.

Feb 2, 2023 · The Grenfell Tower fire was a tragedy; the case made in a new book by housing journalist Peter Apps is that it was also a choice. Apps, the deputy editor of Inside Housing magazine, had been reporting on the dangers of flammable cladding before the fire.

Nov 10, 2022 · Deeply moving and intensely powerful, Apps' rigorously researched account of the Grenfell Tower fire makes for a shocking saga of incompetence, indifference and corporate greed that cost numerous lives.

An in-depth review of the world of fire over the last half decade and how the tragedy of Grenfell Tower has its roots in decisions made in the 1980s.

May 12, 2022 · Award-winning journalist Peter Apps weaves poignant survivor testimony with the detailed decision-making that led to that fateful night. In bringing the...

Nov 11, 2022 · Since 14 June 2017, when 72 people were killed in a fire engulfing the west London high-rise of Grenfell Tower, the story of the atrocity has turned from one of lives to one of numbers. Regulation codes, refurbishment cost savings, the total sum of buildings wrapped in flammable cladding.