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Grenfell didn’t have to happen. On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put’. Many did – and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.

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Peter Apps is an award-winning Inside Housing Deputy Editor, who broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. He has reported on the story from the beginning, and his coverage of the inquiry has been praised by the FT and Huffington Post. He lives in London.  

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