Scottish flats fire warning ignored
Daily Record|September 05, 2024
A TOWER block blaze in Ayrshire should have been a red flag on the dangers of high-rise cladding 18 years before the Grenfell disaster, an inquiry has found.
DAN VEVERS
Scottish flats fire warning ignored

The damning final report from the probe slammed "decades of failure" on building safety which charted a "path to disaster".

The 2017 tragedy killed 72 people after combustible cladding caused an inferno to rapidly spread through an apartment block in North Kensington, London. Now, a 1700page report into the catastrophe points to fires as far back as the 1990s which should have sounded the alarm.

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