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‘AS LONG AS THERE’S THAT KIND OF CLADDING ON BUILDINGS ANOTHER GRENFELL WILL HAPPEN’

It was around 1am when Ed Daffarn woke to the sound of an alarm on the 16th floor. He didn’t get out of bed at first. His neighbour had probably burned some toast, he concluded sleepily. Five minutes later, however, he heard shouting in the communal hallway. At 1am , he thought to himself? Something was up. He wandered out of his bedroom, opened the front door and was confronted with thick plumes of smoke.

“I closed the door and thought to myself, the advice we’ve been given is to stay put,” Daffarn says, recalling the harrowing night that a blaze ripped through his home in Grenfell Tower. Whether to stay or whether to

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