Local woman offers a home to victimspublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Local woman offers a home to Grenfell Tower victims
Amy lives in the west London area and is urging the community to get together.
Summary
Police presume 58 dead but the BBC understands the toll may rise to about 70
Government promises £5,500 for every household left homeless by the fire
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says the disaster was a "preventable accident"
Minute's silence to be held on Monday at 11.00am
Chancellor says Grenfell Tower cladding was banned on high rises
Church services take place across the UK to honour victims
Local woman offers a home to victimspublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Media caption, Corbyn: Ministers 'must be questioned'published at 15:03 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he wants questions asked about preventative steps that could have been taken, the safety facilities that were available and the number of people able to be called up by the fire service.
In response to suggestions that a fire safety review was recommended but not implemented, Mr Corbyn said that “ministers that served and received those reports must be questioned”.
He added: “They had their hand on the tiller at that time. We need to know what reports were available, what information was given and what actions were taken.”
Mr Corbyn said a sprinkler system should have been installed in the affected block of flats.
The Labour leader also said there were "clear lessons to be learned" from the 2009 Lakanal House tower block fire in Camberwell,
“Harriet Harman, the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, who represented those people who suffered in the fire there in 2009, has made the point that if you cut local authority expenditure then the price is paid somewhere.”
Royal Borough: Call us if you want to helppublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
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End of twitter post 2Picture: Forensic teams join firefighters at the scenepublished at 14:56 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesMum, sister, brother-in-law, nieces - all missingpublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Lucy Manning
BBC News Special CorrespondentThey have lost their homes and for some, tragically, their relatives.
At times there is the sound of sobbing as the word goes round that someone is missing, someone is feared dead.
I've spent the day inside the community centre where survivors have gathered. Downstairs in the hall families sit at tables and wait for news.
One family told me they hadn't heard from their brother, sister and three children. Other relatives were out searching hospitals. There was still no news.
Outside the centre, Sawsan was with a group of women. For one it was too much - she was on the floor crying. Sawsan hasn't heard from her mum, sister, brother-in-law and nieces. She spoke to them when the fire started, but has heard nothing since.
Inside the centre, families are being helped with food, housing and medical treatment. It's busy and everyone is helping. Just not with the one thing they need: information about whether their relatives are safe.
Christabel told me how lucky her father had been. He tried to fight the fire but made it out alive. Ed was saved when a friend called him to tell him to get out the building. "I'm lucky" he says. But they have lost everything.
At the scene: Piles of supplies, and a search for the missingpublished at 14:53 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Image source, EPAImage caption, A woman makes a call at a casualty bureau close to the Grenfell Tower fire
Images from the scene give a sense of the local community's response to the deadly fire. While some have donated huge piles of supplies, others are searching for the missing residents of Grenfell.
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, A pile of donated clothes, sleeping bags and water lie next to a police cordon
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Signs outside the Notting Hill Methodist Church ask for donations including masks to protect the vulnerable from the smoky air, and new underwear - among other essentials
Image source, AFP/Getty ImagesImage caption, Members of the Fire Brigade remain at the scene
'Death trap' - Evening Standard's final editionpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
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End of twitter postEvening Standard photographer Jeremy Selwyn, who took the image, said he arrived at 3am to "scenes of carnage".
He told the BBC it was one of the worst things he has seen in the 30 years he has been a press photographer for the newspaper.
How do you tackle a fire in a high-rise block?published at 14:44 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesLondon fire commissioner Dany Cotton said crews were expected to remain at the scene for at least another 24 hours.
So, how do officers tackle a blaze in a high-rise block? Read our full story
Important information for those affectedpublished at 14:43 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Supplies arriving in boxes, binbags or on bikespublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
The BBC's Claire Heald. at the scene
Donations keep arriving at the emergency centre set up at the Rugby Portobello Trust.
People are bringing food, storage boxes of clothes, and bin bags full of basics - trying to do their bit for those who have lost their homes, their possessions and perhaps their loved ones.
One lady from nearby Hammersmith stops for a second on her bucket bike. It's filled with supplies for little ones - nappies, food, sanitary stuff.
"I just have two small kids and I wanted to bring things to keep the women here going today," she says, before turning out of the cordon and cycling off.
Sprinklers 'make the environment more survivable'published at 14:36 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
The World at One
BBC Radio 4In a similar vein to Jim Fitzpatrick, Paul Fuller, chairman of the Fire Sector Federation, said sprinklers could have helped lessen the impact of the Grenfell Tower fire.
He told BBC Radio 4's World At One earlier: "We know that sprinklers are effective.
"Also, sprinklers will make the environment more survivable by containing the fire and containing the smoke.
"But they are not a total solution. We also have to make sure that passive protection measures - things like the structure of the building and the fire resistance of the building - are all properly in place as well."
New tower blocks 'have to have sprinkler systems'published at 14:35 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
A bit more from Labour MP and former firefighter Jim Fitzpatrick, who suggested that sprinkler systems - now a legal requirement in similar buildings to Grenfell Tower - should be fitted retrospectively in older blocks.
"At the moment, that's not a requirement, maybe it should be," he said.
He went on: "If [Grenfell Tower] was built today, it would have to have a fire suppression system; it would have to have an alarm system, it would have to have a sprinkler system.
"You could not build a building of that height - and with that level of residential risk - without sprinklers."
London tower block fire: At the scenepublished at 14:32 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, At least six people are dead after the blaze ripped through Grenfell Tower
A column of black smoke drifts over west London, while an occasional burning smell is carried by the breeze. Read more.
'Floor was too hot to put his feet on'published at 14:32 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
BBC Radio 5 liveKane's friend's father was in the tower. He spoke to him when the fire first broke out, and fire services had told his father to stay in his flat and wait for them.
Two hours later, Kane's friend spoke again to his father and told him to just try and get out.
Kane said: "The floor was too hot to put his feet on... He said 'I love you'. That's the last they heard from him. His phone is still ringing though.
"It looked like a bonfire. It was over before it started There was no stopping it."
'We have the engineering ability to prevent fires like this'published at 14:25 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Labour MP and former Fire Minister Jim Fitzpatrick told the BBC this type of tragedy "should not be happening in 21st Century London".
"We have the engineering ability to prevent fires like this from taking hold... we're not using them."
"Pointing a finger of blame, at this point, is not an appropriate response," said Mr Fitzpatrick, a former firefighter and secretary for the All Party Group on Fire Safety & Rescue Services.
"It's about learning lessons as quickly as we can."
What does Grenfell Tower look like?published at 14:21 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
This cut-through image shows the building's layout
Refurbishment work completed in 2016 included more residential areas in the four lower "podium" levels
Harman: 'Lessons not learned' from 2009 firepublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
A bit more from Labour's Harriet Harman, who told the BBC she feared "lessons weren't learned" from the 2009 Lakanal House tower block fire in Camberwell where six people died.
She said the coroner who carried out the inquest into those victims said that when the building was being refurbished the "contractor breached the fire safety" regulations.
Ms Harman said residents in tower blocks are supposed to be safe from fire if it starts within a single flat.
"It won't spread because there will be compartmentalisation."
However, this was breached in the Lakanal House fire and so the blaze was able to spread, she added.
"It seems to me this is the same that's happened again."
Posters make pleas for the missingpublished at 14:15 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
The BBC's Claire Heald reports that notices are being sellotaped to windows, walls, phoneboxes, and lamp-posts in the streets circling Grenfell, offering help, shelter, and food.
Pictures of those said to be missing are starting to appear alongside them.
They list which floor of Grenfell they lived on. Who they are. Appeals for information.
Like this one about Khadija, from the 20th floor.
Harriet Harman: Government action neededpublished at 14:14 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Further to that news that Jeremy Corbyn is to demand a government statement on the fire tomorrow, Labour MP Harriet Harman has called on ministers to commit to helping the Grenfell Tower residents who have been displaced by the fire.
She said it was important that families who ran out of the building with no money or clothes were resettled so their "children can go to school again".
She called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to get on to hospitals treating victims of the attack to reassure them they will have the resources they need.
"King's College hospital has still got people there from the London Bridge attack and now it's looking after people from this tragedy," the MP for Camberwell and Peckham said.
She also said the government should issue a statement promising to begin the process of "learning lessons" from the fire.
Constant stream of donations for those affectedpublished at 14:12 British Summer Time 14 June 2017
Claire Heald, BBC News website, at the scene
I have seen strong-armed people laden with bags bring donations to the centres.
Groups of people with storage boxes and bags overflowing with clothes and sundries.
Just now, two toddlers stormed past, following their mother, dragging supermarket bags stuffed with little clothes for homeless or evacuated people.
In the emergency centre people hold each other. Their conversations are just about who is dead, who is missing.
Constantly through the door come people with donations. An elderly man follows his daughter in with boxes.
And down the street come a group of volunteers from the Clement James Centre. They are taking a surplus of duvets and clothes to another centre where people may stay the night.