If nothing else (and it's almost impossible to find any good in the events of the past week) authorities are now examining their public buildings of all types with regard to fire precautions and defences.

We had a bad fire at the school where I taught for many years, an old Victorian building only two storeys high. It started in a ground-floor cloakroom, where a child had been playing with matches. Everyone was safely evacuated, but the speed at which it took hold was terrifying. And afterwards, I went back into what was left of the cloakroom to see a small black puddle underneath every metal coat peg. These were all that was left of the melted nylon/artificial fibre coats and bags. The dangerous smoke fumes had blackened the entire area in thick soot. Luckily, this building was fairly isolated on the complex and the fire was contained and put out rapidly.

I started another thread a few months ago about our neighbours' house which went up like a torch and burned almost completely away, while the oil tank exploded like a bomb. It was during the day and luckily they got out unharmed, despite the thick smoke and intense heat. We could only watch in horror as the Fire Brigade struggled to deal with it.

These examples show just how dangerous a fire can be. And no Authority can defend shoddy badly-designed buildings/dwellings for the sake of cost-cutting, or lack of interest in poor, ethnic-minority unemployed folk, who (as we have seen) burn to death the same as anyone else.