{"id":4646,"date":"2025-02-08T01:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/grenfell-tower-was-a-death-trap-some-wanted-it-to-stand-as-a-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T01:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T01:25:12","slug":"grenfell-tower-was-a-death-trap-some-wanted-it-to-stand-as-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/grenfell-tower-was-a-death-trap-some-wanted-it-to-stand-as-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenfell Tower Was a Death Trap. Some Wanted It to Stand as a Warning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For nearly eight years, wrapped in white and crowned with green hearts, Grenfell Tower has stood as a tragic monument to the worst residential fire in the post-World War II history of Britain. On Friday, the government confirmed it would demolish the building, where 72 people died in a blaze that a public inquiry blamed on a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/04\/world\/europe\/grenfell-tower-fire-inquiry-report-uk.html\" title=\"\">lethal combination<\/a> of negligence, cost-cutting and deregulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision, by the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, divided families of the victims when she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/world\/europe\/grenfell-tower-uk-demolished-survivors.html\" title=\"\">told them<\/a> of it on Wednesday, in advance of the official announcement. Some condemned the plan to tear down the building before justice had been meted out to those responsible for the disaster; others conceded the tower could not stand in its present state indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The anguished debate over Grenfell Tower echoes those over the sites of other tragedies, such as the 9\/11 attacks in New York City and Washington or the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, where ruined structures become sacred ground, steeped in symbolism and memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Rayner said the demolition would be carried out methodically over two years behind the protective wrapping. Parts of the tower, and material from it, will be preserved so they can become part of a future memorial. The carefully worded <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/update-on-the-future-of-grenfell-tower\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>, issued by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, tried to navigate the emotional crosscurrents of the debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe tower was the home of the 72 innocent people who lost their lives, and of survivors whose lives were forever changed,\u201d the statement said. \u201cIt is clear from conversations it remains a sacred site. It is also clear that there is not a consensus about what should happen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government might well have been alluding to the reaction after Ms. Rayner\u2019s meeting with survivors and families of the victims when she informed them of the decision. One of the groups, Grenfell United, accused her of ignoring their views and claimed there was little support in the room for tearing it down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Karim Mussilhy, whose uncle, Hesham Rahman, perished in the fire, said the government had short-circuited the debate by asserting \u2014 wrongly, he claimed \u2014 that there was no alternative to demolishing the building completely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s no reason the tower needs to come all the way down,\u201d Mr. Mussilhy said. \u201cThere are parts of it that can remain forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But another group, Grenfell Next of Kin, said the focus should be on a memorial rather than preserving the blackened remains of the building. \u201cDo we wish the whole tower could stand forever? Yes. Is that an option? Not from a structural point of view,\u201d the group said. \u201cDo we need a way forward? Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although the building had been reinforced after the fire with thousands of props, structural engineers warned that it would continue to deteriorate. The government said that preserving multiple floors did not make sense from an engineering point of view. Even preserving a smaller number of floors, it said, would raise issues of equity with the families of victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt would not be fair to keep some floors of the building that are significant to some families, whilst not being able to do so for others and knowing that, for some, this would be deeply upsetting,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some have argued that the building should be preserved because it is, in effect, a crime scene. The public inquiry concluded that the disaster was caused by unscrupulous manufacturers, who supplied cheap, flammable cladding, which turned the tower into an inferno after it caught fire in the early hours of June 14, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The inquiry\u2019s report also blamed the Conservative-led local council, which was eager to cut costs, as well as acquiescent contractors and the architecture firm that oversaw the 2015 renovation of the 24-floor building. Originally constructed in 1972, Grenfell Tower became a Brutalist landmark, near some of London\u2019s most upscale neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In its statement, the government said it had consulted the police, the coroner\u2019s office and the office of the public inquiry, all of which said they had what they needed to pursue investigations of the fire. The Metropolitan Police may not bring the first criminal charges in the case until 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The treatment of sites where a tragic loss of life occurred has long been a fraught issue. After a truck bomb destroyed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, there was a lively debate over about whether to preserve and display remnants of the ruined building as a monument to the 168 people killed there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A small section of the building\u2019s granite wall was preserved and integrated into a memorial. More symbolically, so was a segment of the chain-link fence that had surrounded the site for four years after the attack and became a repository for flowers, photos and other mementos left by visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese conversations are not about who\u2019s right or who\u2019s wrong,\u201d said Edward T. Linenthal, an emeritus professor of history at Indiana University, who has advised memorial commissions on how to honor victims of terror attacks and mass shootings. \u201cIt\u2019s about whose sensibilities you choose to honor, and why.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the case of Grenfell Tower, he said, the unresolved quest for justice adds another layer of complexity: While the fire was an accident not an attack, unlike in Oklahoma City or on Sept. 11, 2001, it has some of the same qualities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen there\u2019s malfeasance of any kind involved \u2014 loose wiring, class issues, poor regulation by the authorities \u2014 that adds a sharpness to it,\u201d Professor Linenthal said. \u201cPeople died there who weren\u2019t supposed to. Whatever they decide to do, it has to take time, and it has to be done carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the proposals for a memorial are a garden and a monument that would reach into the sky. Last month, the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn8x05vx41do\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">named a short list of five candidates<\/a> to submit designs. It hopes to choose a winning team by the end of the summer and submit a detailed plan by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In its ruined state, with the green hearts and the phrase \u201cGrenfell, Forever in Our Hearts,\u201d stamped at the top of the wrapped building, Grenfell Tower has become a different kind of landmark \u2014 a symbol of social inequality and the costs of rampant deregulation. To some, it is even a source of solace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBeing able to see the tower every day helps some people continue to feel close to those they lost,\u201d the government said. \u201cFor others, it is a painful reminder of what happened and is having a daily impact on some members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/07\/world\/europe\/grenfell-tower-demolition-memorial-debate.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly eight years, wrapped in white and crowned with green hearts, Grenfell Tower has stood as a tragic monument<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1973,1427,494,949,1158,479,1972],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-angela-1980","tag-buildings-structures","tag-fires-and-firefighters","tag-great-britain","tag-london-england","tag-monuments-and-memorials-structures","tag-rayner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grenfell Tower Was a Death Trap. 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