Messages from the tower - Piecing together the timeline of London's Grenfell Tower fire in the words of victims and survivors
By Georgina Rannard
12 July 2017
Sometime after midnight on 14 June 2017, something happens in a flat on the fourth floor of a tower block in west London.
It’s flat 16, and a fault occurs in a Hotpoint fridge-freezer. It sparks a deadly chain of events.
The blaze spreads quickly through the 24-storey building, and within hours it is reduced to a blackened ruin.
In the hours after the blaze starts, dozens of people have to make life or death decisions. To leave or not to leave?
This is the story of some of those who were in the fire, told through friends and family who were in touch with them during those desperate hours, and in the words of those who survived.
The BBC has pieced together a picture of what happened as the fire took hold - using interviews with survivors, witnesses and relatives of the missing, as well as video footage, gathered on the night and in the immediate aftermath.
Every person’s recollection of a traumatic event is unique, and memory can sometimes be unreliable. But what follows are insights into what people in Grenfell Tower faced that night.
One month on, facts remain scarce. The authorities say 80 people are dead, or missing and presumed to be dead, but many people have not yet been identified.
This story starts at 00:54, when the emergency services are called:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt ... ell_voices
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