Search Operation Underway After Fire in East London Apartment Building

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Search Operation Underway After ***** in East London Apartment Building

A search and rescue operation was underway Monday morning after a major ***** broke out in a mixed-use building in east London, the London ***** Brigade

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. ***** officials said that at least 100 people were evacuated.

The cause of the ***** is still unknown, the ***** officials said, but 225 firefighters responded to the blaze in 40 ***** trucks, and firefighters were called to the scene at 2:44 a.m. on Monday.

The London Ambulance Service

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that it took two people to the hospital.

The building, which was both residential and commercial, “has a number of ***** safety issues known to London ***** Brigade,” the officials said.

The building in Dagenham, an area in far east London, had external “noncompliant cladding,” a

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from 2023 shows. It was covered in scaffolding; architects had applied to replace the cladding on the fifth and sixth floors.

To many, that description will recall the devastating 2017 ***** at Grenfell Tower, an apartment building across the British capital in west London, which left 72 people ***** in the country’s deadliest ***** in more than a century.

The ***** at Grenfell Tower spread rapidly because of flammable exterior cladding and insulation, which was ******** in many countries because of the ***** danger it posed.

In 2017, an independent review found that British construction regulations were “not fit for purpose,” and had allowed dangerous latitude for cutting corners in a culture of “doing things cheaply.”

A separate report in 2019, which was harshly critical of the brigade, found that some of the people in the Grenfell building would have survived if the firefighters and emergency operators had not told them to stay put.

The final inquiry into the Grenfell ***** will be published

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