Moriath
I am a FH squatter
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Thing is those buildings were supposed to be each flat being its own fire cell so things wouldnt spread. So the advice to stay in the contained supposed safe zone was usually the best one if you cant get down 20 floors to the street safely. And being on the top floor you dont know if its safe 15 floors down.Stop biting!
But it's because of this sort of post:
In any way?
They were woefully untrained, unequipped etc. etc. And they're not accountable for the tragedy - but if they'd had the gumption to think rather than blindly follow the orders of higher-ups (because it's my job, innit) then they'd have told the residents to evacuate earlier.
Building regs and leadership. They're the big two. But are we really saying that firefighters are so thick that they can't see what's going off over a long(ish) period of time and say to people "get out, who cares what 'official policy' is" - and that makes them totally blameless?
Maybe we are?
Edit:
That's the jobsworth point. I don't accept it. It's like working class people can't be shit at their jobs. (It may be not entirely their fault because of training deficiencies etc. - but "following procedure" is a piss poor excuse for a lot of things).
Edit edit: Lesson here is:
If your building is on fire - GET OUT![]()
that would have been ok if the fabric of the building wasnt flamable.