On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. Seventy people died at the scene, and two people died later in hospital, with more than 70 injured and 223 escaping. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-platform disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the German Bombings of World War II.
The fire during the early morning hours of 14 June 2017
Grenfell Tower in 2012 before the renovation
Grenfell Tower in the early morning of 14 June. The burnt cladding is visible on the outside of the building.
Grenfell fire seen at 04:51 on 14 June from Putney Hill, London
Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England. The tower was completed in 1974 as part of the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate. Most of the tower was destroyed in a severe fire on 14 June 2017.
The tower seen in 2009 before the renovation
The fire burning at 04:43 on 14 June, four hours after it started
The charred remains of the building, June 2017
The tower in May 2018, partially covered in scaffolding and protective wrap
