英国媒体：为什么没人在意伦敦塔楼大火之前的预警？

人民网伦敦12月21日电（赵子栀） 今年6月，位于伦敦最富裕的居民区——肯辛顿和切尔西区的一栋高层居民塔楼发生大火，大火燃烧了24小时才受到控制，60多个小时候才被完全扑灭。这栋叫做格伦弗尔塔的24层高楼内，居住着151户居民，其中很多是老弱病残。虽然当地消防部门迅速派出了40多辆消防车和200多名消防队员进行扑救，但是由于高压水枪的水柱只能达到10层左右，而且在大火刚开始燃起时，消防部门让楼内居民待在家中等待救援。由于大楼外墙的保温层使用了易燃材料，大火迅速向高层蔓延，很多居民根本无法逃离。

火灾发生后，地方政府迟钝的反应也让受灾居民和媒体愤怒。而火灾发生两周后，伦敦警方宣布最终遇难人数需要在大楼的搜索工作全部完成后才能确认，甚至可能无法在年内公布。这让大火的幸存者和死者亲属都极度失望。

与此同时，人们开始注意到，其实很早以前，当地居民就开始质疑大楼翻修工作使用的材料不安全，他们不断向当地政府投诉，结果当地政府不但不理睬，其中一位居民还收到了当地政府要求其停止投诉否则将对其采取法律行动的警告信。

据英国广播公司报道，从2012年起，一位住在该塔楼16层的居民就在网上开设了博客，在博客里他表示了对大楼发生火灾的担心，而在火灾发生后第二天，这个博客的页面点击数量超过了两百万。博客的维护者是爱德华，在高楼内居住了16年的55岁社工，火灾发生当晚，他的邻居及时打电话让他赶快撤离，虽然他本人幸免于难，但是却失去了家和所有财产。

在接受采访时，爱德华说：“我当时写下的就是后来发生的情景，现在回头看就好像是一种可怕的预测。如果我知道真的会发生那样的事，我当时就不写了”。但是更让他气愤的是，负责这栋大楼的维护和管理的肯辛顿和切尔西区租户管理组织对安全情况的忽视、和区政府的疏于管理。同时，社会大众对像他这样居住在公租房里的人的忽视。爱德华说，“现实情况是，如果你住在公租房里，你面对的就是忽视和冷漠，这就是我们受到的一切待遇”。

发生大火的高楼所在的肯辛顿和切尔西区，是英国房价最高的区域之一，平均房价高达214万英镑（约合人民币1881万元）。发生大火的格伦弗尔塔建于1974年，火灾发生前一年刚刚完成了耗资870万英镑的翻修工程。

来源：人民网

British media: Why did no one care about the early warning of the tower fire in London?

People's daily London December 21 (Zhao Zizhi) in June of this year, a high-rise residential tower in Kensington and Chelsea District, which is the richest residential area in London, has been blaze. The fire has been burning for 24 hours before being controlled. The more than 60 hours were completely extinguished. The 24 storey building called the Glen Livermore tower, home to 151 residents, many of whom are old and sick. Although the local fire department dispatched more than 40 fire engines and more than 200 firefighters to fight, but because the water column of the high pressure water gun only reached 10 layers, and when the fire started, the fire department kept the residents in the building waiting for help. Because of the use of flammable materials in the thermal insulation of the exterior walls of the building, the fire spread rapidly to the top of the building, and many residents were unable to escape.

After the fire, the insensitive response of the local government to the disaster affected the victims and the media. Two weeks after the fire, the London police announced that the final number of victims would need to be confirmed until the search was completed. It was a great disappointment to the survivors of the fire and the relatives of the dead.

At the same time, people begin to pay attention to, in fact, a long time ago, local residents began to question the building renovation work material used is not safe, they constantly complaints to the local government, the local government not only ignored, one of the residents also received a warning letter which requires the local government to stop the complaint or legal action will be taken on it.

According to Broadcasting British Corporation, from 2012 onwards, a living in the 16 storey residential tower on the Internet opened a blog, in the blog, he said to the building fire and worry, after the fire in second days, the number of pages by clicking on this blog more than two million. The maintainer of the blog is Edward, a 55 year old social worker who lived in a high-rise building for 16 years. When his fire happened that evening, his neighbor called him in time to evacuate him. Though he survived, he lost his family and all his property.

In an interview, Edward said: "what I wrote was what happened later, and now looking back is like a terrible prediction. If I knew it would really happen, I wouldn't have written it. But what makes him angry is that the Kensington and Chelsea District tenant management organizations responsible for the maintenance and management of the building neglect the safety situation and neglect the management of the district government. At the same time, the public has ignored the people like him living in public rental housing. Edward said, "the reality is, if you live in a public rental house, you are faced with neglect and indifference, which is all the treatment we have received."

The high building in Kensington and Chelsea district is one of the highest housing prices in the UK. The average housing price is up to 2 million 140 thousand pounds (18 million 810 thousand yuan). Glen verta, built in the fire, was built in 1974 and has just completed a 8 million 700 thousand - pound refurbishment project a year before the fire.

Source: People's network