The local council, which has to pay £500,000 to support residents who have lost everything, has called the response “woeful”.
Five weeks have passed since the privately held Spectrum Building in east London caught fire in the early hours of the morning while workers were removing potentially flammable cladding, sending residents fleeing for their lives.
According to residents, escape routes were padlocked and fire alarms did not go off, forcing some people to scale fences in order to escape.
They’re indifferent. As we sat in her low-cost hotel room beside a busy dual highway, where she has spent the majority of the last five weeks, Kasia Stantke stated, “We are nothing to them.”
We are useless [to them], why would they not meet us? She enquired.
“Death trap” is how the 43-year-old management accountant characterizes the building she and 80 other occupants call home.
