About 300 people were evacuated from the building after the fire in August Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony's light fitting caught ...

The side and roof of the building were badly damaged A cladding fire at a block of flats in north-west London has led to the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warning of "criminal complacency" on the part of ...

Cladding filled with combustible material was allegedly marketed as safe throughout Australia, despite being linked to major blazes worldwide including London's catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire. The ...

A senior government official has denied that the “excision” of critical passages from a cladding fire report he worked on were made to avoid a conflict with the department’s decision not to raise fire ...

Another cladding fire has struck London, this time in East London’s Dagenham. Early Monday morning, a 7-story residential tower at 22-24 Freshwater Road was engulfed in flames. Construction was ...

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One hundred degrees hotter, four times longer and with a far greater risk of spreading: the flames that consumed cladding in independent fire safety tests are described in worrying terms, compared to ...

Landlords in the line of fire over cladding. A High Court ruling says landlords are responsible for removing dangerous ...