Pictures From Inside The Shirley Towers Flat Fire
  • The corridor on the floor below the fire where the bridgehead was set up. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were logged in and out so controllers new who was inside tackling the blaze.
  • A view from the front door of Flat 72, looking up the stairs towards the lounge where the fire broke out.
  • Looking down the stairs inside flat 72, with the distinctive red hoses laid by the firefighters as they fought the fire.
  • Hoses laid by the firefighters on the stairway inside the fire damaged flat alongside some of the cabling which had fallen, hampering the efforts of firefighters who became tangled.
  • The scene of devastation in the lounge of flat 72 - the room where the fire broke out when a curtain was left on a lamp shade.
  • Another view of the lounge of flat 72, with the charred remains of a couch on the right hand side.
  • The kitchen of flat 72, with the remains of a cooker and scorched units, where the temperature reached up to 1000 degrees centigrade.
  • Blackened hoses and fallen cables litter the stairway inside the flat.
  • The bathroom of flat 72, where the first two firefighters who went in to fight the fire sought refuge from the heat.
  • More of the fallen cabling which left firefighters tangled up as they tried to tackle the blaze and rescue their two colleagues who later died.

Pictures from inside the Shirley Towers flat fire.

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Pictures From Inside The Shirley Towers Flat Fire

Pictures from inside the Shirley Towers flat fire.

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