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- A scientist who helped investigate why the King's Cross fire of 1987 spread says the Grenfell disaster shows that "many lessons" from King's Cross were not applied.
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RIP Colin Williamson who 3 times went into the station to lead out casualties before meeting his death
he‘s in a better place now (i hope that doesn’t sound rude, if it does then i apologize)
God bless him 💗
Sad
it is a great tragedy that it takes a body count to implement safety standards.
True. When the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred on March 25th, 1911; we as society finally began to take workplace safety as something that has to be taken seriously to prevent injury and loss of life.
thats how life works, it always takes a negative to cause a positive
That is why we now have lots of lifeboats on big ships.
@@FunkeymonkeyTTRYep, almost all the time this is done as a cost saving measure too
The power of habit brought me here.
Same here.. Lol.
Same here too hahaha
Same!
Same :)
Brought me here to!!
RIP my big brother Dean who I never got to meet. I love u
May he Rest in Peace.
i was there , 32 years ago now ,got out a few seconds before fire ball hit .very sad .
me too - up the escalator half an hour before but guessing it could have been smouldering already
I watched this as i've just finished reading 'Body 115' compelling reading. I found it incredible that there were people who were so intent on continuing on their journey, that they were ignoring all safety warnings and directions...even, apparently, people still queing at the ticket office!! If someone ran towards me telling me don't go up there it's on fire, I'm definitely going to run in the opposite direction. The book is well worth reading..lots of details in time order and fascinating research into how the identity of the unknown body 115 was eventually discovered.
I read it too and also highly recommend it
At 9:58 someone is having their photo taken in the photo booth!
Smoke everywhere? Must get a passport photo.
Different times then. Not as much safety and people often paid little attention.
Times wern't so different, always takes tragedy to move those 'in charge', who prefer to cut corners if given the chance. 6 'serious' escalator fires in 3yrs inbetween Oxford Circus fire & Kings Cross, all caused by 'smoker's materials'. Yet recommendations were too slowly implemented - enforcing the smoking ban, always alerting the fire brigade to any fire [ther'd been a minor 'smoulder' at the bottom of Victoria Line escalators under an hour before the Piccadilly escalator caught fire, just burning tissue; too small to bother fire services with yet had they been called they'd likely still be present when the Piccadilly escalator caught] - cleaning the tracks, training staff to use the 'water-fog' system [those entering the escalator machine room at Kings Cross wern't even aware there was a switch to activate this system, which could've slowed the fire allowing time for fire fighters to tackle it] London Underground management didn't take fire seriously, they assumed they'd remain just a minor nuisance
@@archiearchmcarch i don't think he was in danger, it was outside
Probably didn’t need a supercomputer to figure out that it was incredibly dangerous to make a long underground escalator out of wood.
And then cover it with layers and layers and layers of flammable polyurethane.
@@UncoordinatedPixie And allow copious amounts of grease, litter, and fluff to build up underneath the escalators as well as use layers of paint on the walls of the ticket hall.
@@michaellovely6601Then let people light matches for cigarettes atop the stairs.
@@ourcorrectopinions6824 tbf on that point, how could they stop people from doing so? Smoking was still fairly normalized back then.
@@ravenwraith1017 Smoking was banned in stations after the 1984 Oxford Circus fire but the ban wasn't strictly enforced.
I think there have been three fires in the UK in recent decades which have, or will, make major changes. Those are Bradford City stadium, Kings Cross and Grenfell Tower. All caused many deaths, and all spread very quickly. Two were probably caused by smoker’s matches, and the same two probably would have been minor incidents if things had been properly maintained, and kept clean and free from litter. A possible fourth fire which could be added to the list would be the one at Douglas on the Isle of Man, but I don’t know much about that one, except that it involved a highly flammable plastic material, so more like the Grenfell Tower fire.
According to urban myth the ghost of a young woman haunts kings cross thought to be the soul of a victim sad I recall kings cross in those days.
firefighters have to be bravest people on the planet
Was disappointed this news report didn’t go into the science of how the fire spread or the discovery of the ‘trench effect’. Surely Sky can manage to assemble some up to date computer graphics?
King's Cross Fire: background to the French effect. Is another TH-cam video posted 4 yrs ago.
There is an episode of Seconds from Disaster which goes into more detail
Many others have. They dont all need to.
Netflix plz make a movie or a Documentary about this fire incident 😢
Interesting report! But what is it with London and great fires?
Londoners are genetically hardwired to be pyros?
In America it's privately owned nightclubs and guns and construction bodges. In the UK, it's public transport / council owned flats and, previously , football matches- shows what a haphazard job both countries' neo-liberalism seems to do (for such overall rich countries) in very different ways.
Nikolas Maximilian o
Forensic Files has an episode about this.
6:04 Tell that to the powers that be about the fire at Grenfell Tower!
Do we humans ever learn?
Grenfell tower was an inside job, the authorities used kerosene on it and then set it on fire. Two days after the elections, and the news is covering up the death toll.
We were warned with the fire in dubai on new year... That was the cladding, but everybody just shrugged their shoulderd....
Oxygen?
Well clearly not the ones who vote Tory.
Excellent reporting
Very good video👍👍it explains thematic very well
My GCSE English Language Paper 2 past paper brought me here.
Esse incêndio aconteceu em 1987 - King's Cross era uma das maiores estações de metrô de Londres.
My aunt Came up on that Escalayor minutes before the fire Started and when she got home she discovered the Fire Witch Occurrd RIP those who died
I used Kings Cross quite a lot. I rather liked that station. But I haven't used it since before the fire. And I moved out of London in 1989.
Anyone here after power of habit
😂 yessir
Don't give 🔥 a chance
Yes the tube of today is far better than the disgusting system I used as a boy nearly 40 years ago
And just like Kings Cross, no one will be proscecuted over Grenfell... they never are!
they wont prosecute becuses all they say in court we been telling the goverment for years that thay need to invest in saftey and they took no notice so the goverment will make sure it dont get to court covering its own back courupt system
If the ban on smoking had been strictly enforced a lot sooner the disaster wouldn’t have happened. Many who smoked back then had an incredibly arrogant and selfish attitude.
The same tragic story throughout human history - it takes a horrible disaster to force things to change.
No fire alarms? 🔥🚨
Isn't the great fire of London a better candidate for the fire that changed London?
no, because that's how it was then
Both would be "winners"; the Great fire changed the skyline, not necessarily for the better, & helped eradicate Plague, whereas Kings Cross fire resulted in long overdue improvements to safety & practices, at the great expense of the injured, dead, & bereaved.
Hell is being enlarged
Smoking and the wood frame of the subway near the escalator❤
News today, The Cabinet Office signed a deal with WSP to advise officials on whether cladding used by the government estate complied with building regulations on June 26 last year, adding that it must not generate 'adverse publicity' for the Cabinet Office or other Crown bodies, including the PM's office. #gaggingorder
This report seems to be normalising the invisible unaccusing inquiry instead of the more punative inquest.
No one went to prison for the kings cross fire.
Escalator Alight
From subway to tower fires
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Terrible blaze worst in history
Video is innacurate. The cray 1 was not the most powerful and expensive computer in the world at that time.
Evidence?
OCD ALERT hahaha
Ken Meade what was then?
@@class37100 OCD can be very, very useful
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Sounds like arson??
Sky news and propaganda
Xtain Dion how is this propaganda?
What the...
1) How is THIS propaganda or bias?
2) How is Sky “propaganda” or biased?
Dev3LM take it or leave everything concern Britain is a propaganda technique.
My grandmother was buried the night this happened, three years before I was born. I've often asked my mum about the Kings Cross fire but she would never tell me about it. I've read about it since though.