{"id":355742,"date":"2018-04-08T01:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-residents-draw-connection-between-grenfell-and-kemerovo-fires\/"},"modified":"2018-04-08T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T00:36:56","slug":"london-residents-draw-connection-between-grenfell-and-kemerovo-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-residents-draw-connection-between-grenfell-and-kemerovo-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"London residents draw connection between Grenfell and Kemerovo fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>London residents draw connection between Grenfell and Kemerovo fires<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>7 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The March 25 fire at the Winter Cherry shopping mall and entertainment centre in Kemerovo in Russia took the lives of at least 64 people, including 41 children\u2014with dozens injured and still missing. The parallels with last June\u2019s inferno that claimed 72 lives in Grenfell Tower, London were both obvious and disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>The same callous disregard for public safety was evident in both incidents, with basic fire safety measures either not in place or ignored by the relevant authorities. Most of the children who perished in the Winter Cherry mall fire did so because the doors of the cinema on the fourth floor were locked. Many of the fire exits were blocked and the alarm and sprinkling system didn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> spoke to London residents about the fire in Kemerovo.<\/p>\n<p>Caul, who is an active supporter of the fight for justice for the victims of the Grenfell fire, said, \u201cThe Winter Cherry tragedy in Russia brought back Grenfell for me, with the reported numbers who perished, and fire alarms that didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhat struck me was that [Russian President] Putin came out and said people will be held to account, such as those responsible for safety. People have already been detained for questioning in Russia, unlike here.<\/p>\n<p> \u201c[British Prime Minister Theresa] May\u2019s response to Grenfell was so appalling, she didn\u2019t even take the opportunity to be seen to be a bit more compassionate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of those killed in the Russian fire were children. I thought \u2018Why on earth is this happening?\u2019 You have accidents, but this is no coincidence this massive loss of life, 72 in Grenfell, 64 in Kemerovo, in peacetime! It\u2019s through gross negligence,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/07\/russ-a07.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 London residents draw connection between Grenfell and Kemerovo fires By our reporters 7 April 2018 The March 25 fire at the Winter Cherry shopping mall and entertainment centre in Kemerovo in Russia took the lives of at least 64 people, including 41 children\u2014with dozens injured and still missing. The parallels with last June\u2019s inferno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}