London Fire

and these days sprinklers would have been mandatory.

It would appear, KjellNN, that the installation of sprinklers was not mandatory at all. Quite stupefying. Why wasn't it/isn't it mandatory?

It would seem that the cost of installing them in this block of flats would have been about 2% of the total refit cost. Hard to believe that peoples lives put at risk for 2%.

I did not put that very well, what I meant was that if it was being built now, sprinklers would be mandatory.

New regulations rarely apply in retrospect to these older buildings unfortunately.

I red that a fridgfreezer started the fire here in the states my friends  that live in apartments have inspections once a month the apartment estate owns the frige the cooker and dishwasher when one has a falt  the landlords job is to fix the aplyence  in the inspection they look for fire safety

Don't know why people are trying to blame the Government.  Look at the landlords/owners of these buildings first.  Bet there was a low budget.  Need to lay the blame at the correct people and not to use scapegoats.  Governments do not build them.  All these high-rise flats are there because of lack of housing in the first place, so they build up.  Figure how much 5 acres of houses against 5 acres of high-rise flats.  It comes down to money and greed.  Just look at Hong Kong - hate to see what would happen with a fire there

Tom bar, we aren't allowed to discuss anything political, so all I will say is do some proper, in depth research about how things moved from inspection by the Fire Service to "self regulation" and how various legislation has watered down health and safety and duty of care throughout various parliamentary periods. It is an absolute eye opener, and very worrying.