{"id":8228,"date":"2018-05-21T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8228"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:38:12","slug":"uk-public-inquiry-into-grenfell-fire-disaster-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-public-inquiry-into-grenfell-fire-disaster-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Public inquiry into Grenfell fire disaster opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8230\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Grenfell.jpg\" alt=\"Grenfell\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/>A public inquiry into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London, which last June claimed the lives of 72 people, started on Monday.<br \/>\nMore than 500 survivors, grieving families, and friends, as well as North Kensington residents, are taking part in the inquiry, being held in a local hotel.<br \/>\nThis first phase of the inquiry will look into the facts such as how and where the fire started and spread and how the building was evacuated.<br \/>\nThe June 14, 2017 fire was blamed on a faulty fridge, according to earlier reports. The blaze spread quickly due to the building\u2019s cladding (covering), which was thought to have worked as an accelerator.<br \/>\nThe final death toll of 72 included a stillborn baby, according to the British police.<br \/>\nThe public inquiry was ordered by Prime Minister Theresa May shortly after the inferno, and a separate police inquiry is still underway to determine the cause and the reasons for the high death toll in the disaster.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-public-inquiry-into-grenfell-fire-disaster-opens\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public inquiry into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London, which last June claimed the lives of 72 people, started on Monday. More than 500 survivors, grieving families, and friends, as well as North Kensington residents, are taking part in the inquiry, being held in a local hotel. This first phase of the inquiry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}