To force me out with army of marshals’
hotels and warned they may not be able to return for up to a month while cladding is removed and safety work done on gas pipes and fire doors.
Cathy Mitchell, 56, who returned to get medication, said the move to a hotel had been a “nightmare ... We were told to go and had to pack up at 1am. We had to pay ourselves. We have been reimbursed now but it’s tion. People are desperate, this has been handled terribly. Now there are marshals on every floor. We feel like we live in a prison.”
Camden council leader Georgia Gould, who has been knocking on doors to convince residents to leave, said: “The last thing I want to do is force people out. The conversations I’ve been having with residents is that they are happy to work with us.
“The council and fire brigade advise in the strongest possible terms that residents in Taplow, Bray, Dorney and Burnham [blocks] should evacuate and take up one of our temporary accommodation options, as this is the safest place for you to be.”
Last night fire broke in a council block less than a mile away in Hampstead. A woman who gave her name as Maryana said she jumped from the balcony of her second-floor flat in Waxham House to escape smoke that was “thick as a mountain”. One man was treated for smoke inhalation after 60 firefighters tackled the blaze.
discouraging individuals from speaking out. Regulations, he said, were “very clear” that that type of cladding on Grenfell was “non-compliant” on buildings over 18 metres.