'No alarm.. and the fire gate padlocked' was
Daily Mirror UK|August 28, 2024
Mum on blaze block hell... as shock cladding stats revealed
ANDY LINES, MELISSA SIGODO, ZAHRA KHALIQ
'No alarm.. and the fire gate padlocked' was

A MUM of two who fled the towering inferno at Dagenham claimed the fire alarm failed to go off and an escape route gate was locked.

Cydney Parker, 26, told how she "ran for her life" in her pajamas on Monday as new figures show thousands of residential buildings still have lethal cladding - seven years after the Grenfell tragedy.

On a visit to the block in East London yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the damage was "horrific".

This story is from the August 28, 2024 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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