{"product_id":"the-grenfell-tower-fire-tony-sullivan-9781399064460","title":"The Grenfell Tower Fire: A Firefighter's View","description":"In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire began in a kitchen on the fourth floor of a twenty-four-storey block of flats in West London. A fire that should have been contained within the original compartment ripped up the outside of the building within minutes. Procedures and systems that had worked for decades failed resulting in the loss of seventy-two lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet this was not the first time a breakdown of compartmentation had caused a loss of life. Just eight years earlier, a fire at Lakanal House in South London had claimed the lives of six people. How then could this happen again? Nor was it just one failure as panels, inadequate fire-stopping, construction of the windows, failure of fire doors and the smoke ventilation system all contributed to the rapid fire spread.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt proposes the causes are far deeper and wider than many think. A systemic deterioration of standards in testing of materials, building control, maintenance, inspections, fire safety and enforcement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tony Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399064460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399064460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Owl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Tony Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401646330111,"sku":"9781399064460","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_563d8442-5be6-4a13-ab52-6a967192472c.jpg?v=1733888225","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-grenfell-tower-fire-tony-sullivan-9781399064460","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}