Oh my bad I forgot to put the question mark in the header - I was just too blown away by the radio reports.
I tried to edit that, sorry, can anyone help?!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmdx5wr73lyvo
'Several residents have also told BBC London that no alarms activated during the fire and they had to find their way out of the block in darkness, as no emergency lighting triggered.
The BBC understands the electricity supply had been turned off in communal areas following the flooding but it remained switched on in individual flats.'
This is from February 2025 - First Port are the property management company responsible for Neutron Tower -
https://www.leaseholdknowledge.com/firstport-suspended-from-its-trade-body-the-property-institute/
FirstPort suspended from its own trade body the Property Institute
"FirstPort’s current managing director is much like the MD of Peverel in 2010: neither are actually directors of the companies they supposedly oversee.
Over the years, LKP and the MPs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group have met FirstPort’s bosses to raise concerns. In addition, LKP has invited FirstPort to address the APPG about raising standards.
The excuses usually follow a pattern of partial admission of past failings but now standards are improving and “customer service” – that is, service to leaseholders (who aren’t, of course, the employers of FirstPort) would improve.
Perhaps LKP readers will not be surprised that:
FirstPort had used Tri Fire for their EWS1 building assessments and now has to report the problems that follow that association:
https://www.firstport.co.uk/news/ews1-certificates-following-tri-fire-suspension/
FirstPort has partnered with controversial retirement housing provider Platinum Skies, who have appeared on the LKP site
https://www.firstport.co.uk/news/pr...ry-retirement-communities-in-new-partnership/
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