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BILLIE PIPER

GIVEN the truly shocking tragedy at Grenfell Tower, perhaps the time has come to make fire extinguishers a legal requirement for every single apartment in all multi-floored residential buildings.

Initial, unconfirmed reports suggest this terrible inferno might have started in one flat where a fridge/freezer caught fire.

If this turns out to be the case, the blaze might have been confined to that flat, had the occupant had the means by which to deal with it at source.

I’m quite sure our firefighters would be more than happy to provide basic advice to groups of householders on how best to control an outbreak of fire until