LONDON — A public inquiry into the 2017 fire at London’s Grenfell Tower, which killed 72 people, began to zero in on Monday on how the densely populated social housing block was allowed to become a tinder box and who was to blame. The 23-story tower, owned by the wealthy west London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, was destroyed on the night of June 14, 2017, in Britain’s worst fire in a residential building since World War Two. In its first phase, now complete, the public inquiry led by retired judge Martin Moore-Bick examined in forensic detail the sequence of events on the night of the blaze. The main contractor in charge of the refurbishment was privately owned British firm Rydon. But the police have said they would not announce any decisions on charges until the public inquiry had concluded, because they needed to take into account its findings.

Source: National Post January 27, 2020 12:33 UTC