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A GRENFELL Tower survivor who escaped from the 19th floor of the burning building has said he will be haunted for life by the sight of the raging fire.

Nicholas Burton, 50, had lived in the tower block since 1984 and was rescued with his sick wife by firefighters around two and a half hours after the blaze began.

Recounting the night of the fire, he said those outside of the block had been traumatised by watching their friends and neighbours scream for help.

He said: “I’m glad that I came down the tower, but I’d be horrified if I’d actually have had to watch the tower being on fire.

“When the fire brigade got me out, I just looked back once and that one vision will stay in my brain forever.

“To actually sit there and watch your loved ones, your friends your neighbours, it must have been horrendous.”

Burton, whose wife remains in hospital, claimed he could have rehoused everyone within 48 hours of the tragedy as he called for the council to temporarily acquire empty flats within the area.

The former catering manager remains in a hotel room six weeks on from the blaze and hit out at the authority’s “undignified” response, accusing Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council of treating residents like the “undeserving poor”.

He said: “The truth is that most of the people in the tower were professional people.

“They worked all their lives. There’s leaseholders, people who bought their flats, people from all sorts of backgrounds and ethnicity, but they still treat us as master and servant.

“I’ve been round to all the estate agents. There’s thousands of flats and houses in the Royal Borough. But we’re the undeserving, they are not going to put their hand in their pocket and get us a short-term lease for six months.”

“I could have done it in 48 hours. But six weeks down the line, we’re still in the hotels looking for ex-council flats. Those are the kinds of conversations we’re having and we’re having to chase.”