May and London Mayor Are Met With Anger as They Respond to Fire -
By CEYLAN YEGINSU and STEPHEN CASTLEJUNE 16, 2017
Demonstrators heckled Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain on Friday and stormed the local council
that owns Grenfell Tower, which was incinerated in a deadly fire on Wednesday.
And already, the fire at the Grenfell Tower housing project — its scorched shell looming above one of London’s most upscale
neighborhoods — has become a grim symbol of class inequality in a city that has long been a magnet for global wealth.
LONDON — Grenfell Tower residents said they had warned about fire hazards for
years before their London public housing project became a 24-story cinder.
With scores of residents still unaccounted for since the early Wednesday fire, frustrated survivors demanded from government officials help
and a roster — or at least the number — of tower residents.
They knew it would happen and they tried to stop it, but no one listened because no one would profit from listening.”
A 2016 blog post published by an association of residents, the Grenfell Action Group,
and titled “Playing With Fire” virtually prophesied such an event.
