After that, the whole building was on fire,' he said. 'When I arrived, there were 10 flats on fire. He said the blaze had advanced quickly, and that the alarms did not appear to have been triggered.
' he said as his voice trailed off and he stared hard at the sidewalk.
Witnesses recalled a mother dropping her baby off a balcony and young children banging frantically on windows before disappearing behind a thick blanket of smoke. The number of dead touched at least 12 - with dozens more injured and authorities warning the death toll could rise. That kind of fall is not the kind you can survive. He estimated the person jumped from the 16th or 17th floor of the 24-floor tower. 'As soon as I arrived, someone pointed and said, 'Someone is jumping! Someone is jumping!'' he recounted on Wednesday with the smell of smoke lingering in the air. Come home quickly, she begged.Ī few minutes later, the 22-year-old biomedical engineering student rounded the corner to see Grenfell Tower transforming into an inferno. Sajad Jamalvatan was at the movies Tuesday night when he got a call from his panicked mother.
