Dear Editor,
After a seven year wait, the Report on the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy 2017 of London was released, detailing a damming ‘web of blame’ and ‘decades of failures’ by successive governments (Al Jazeera September 4). The Report highlighted a litany of failures in accountability and responsibility by tiers of agencies including government, fire service, producers of materials, architects, engineers among others.
The Report was particularly critical of the London Fire Brigade laying accusations that it was not effectively managed and led. So too were the ‘unscrupulous’ building companies’ dishonesty about their products, reminiscent and parallels can be drawn with the material used in the submersible ‘Titan’ and the ensuing disaster on its Titanic dive in June 2023.
There are many helpful examples to be gleaned from this disaster as outlined in the Report. We not so long ago had our own unfortunate experience, and while not on the Grenfell scale, it was huge enough for us. We must work to ensure disasters of these magnitude do not recur and no one is let down so badly.
Sincerely,
Shamshun Mohamed
