Fire brigade chief pleads with London building owners: 'Get the cladding off'
by Jacob Phillips and Ellie Ng
Mar 13, 2024
2 minutes
The London Fire Brigade commissioner has said Grenfell-style cladding must be stripped from 1,250 high-rise blocks across London.
Andy Roe has pleaded to building owners and managers to “get the cladding off” as he warned some high-rises are still clad or have “serious deficiencies,” nearly seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people in North Kensington.
He said firefighters were sometimes “operating in very high-risk
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