{"id":13376,"date":"2019-06-10T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=13376"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T10:16:09","slug":"no-fire-alarms-heard-in-latest-london-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/no-fire-alarms-heard-in-latest-london-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Fire Alarms Heard&#8221; In Latest London Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A London assembly member has came out and said that no fire alarms were heard in the latest apartment fires in Barking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty flats with wooden balconies were destroyed and another 10 damaged in the fire in De Pass Gardens on Sunday. Assembly member Andrew Boff said no fire alarm sounded during the blaze, which he said was &#8220;crazy&#8221; and London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the &#8220;shocking&#8221; fire could have &#8220;easily resulted in fatalities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I live nearby so I went to the building to help get people out&#8221;, Mr Boff said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that time, only two floors were alight but when I came out, the entire building was in flames, perhaps something to do with these wooden balconies on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was also struck that there was no fire alarm. The fire alarms do not work &#8211; which to me, seems crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was in this building trying to get people out. <br \/>Questions to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonFire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LondonFire<\/a> : <br \/>Did the absence of a fire alarm hamper evacuation? I heard no fire alarms. <br \/>There appeared to be an issue with finding a water supply. <br \/>What is the advice given on wooden clad balconies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c1khykFVQn\">https:\/\/t.co\/c1khykFVQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Boff (@AndrewBoff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewBoff\/status\/1137788374859886592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/00D3\/production\/_107311200_d8ovfnuxsai6cn0.jpg\" alt=\"barking fire\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, only two injuries were reported. A man and a woman were treated for smoke inhalation, but no one was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe Twitter'>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday&#39;s fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Barking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Barking<\/a> could easily have resulted in fatalities, and I am grateful to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonFire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LondonFire<\/a> and the local authority for acting as quickly as they did. My statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ClD2iaF5cd\">pic.twitter.com\/ClD2iaF5cd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SadiqKhan\/status\/1137980833590108160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>People affected by the fire were told to &#8220;take rest&#8221; at the Thames View Community Centre which is roughly a mile away from the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A London assembly member has came out and said that no fire alarms were heard in the latest apartment fires in Barking. Twenty flats with wooden balconies were destroyed and another 10 damaged in the fire in De Pass Gardens on Sunday. Assembly member Andrew Boff said no fire alarm sounded during the blaze, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1297,130,99,102,71,43],"class_list":["post-13376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-uk-news","tag-barking","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-london","tag-news","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13377,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions\/13377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}