While it’s unknown what sparked the fire, experts say that the cladding, or exterior insulation, created a chimney effect through which the fire rapidly spread upwards.
The cladding was added to Grenfell’s exterior in 2015 as part of a $12.8 million retrofit.
“I have never seen a fire that has engulfed an entire building like this in a career of more than 30 years,” Matt Wrack, who heads the Fire Brigades Union, told The Telegraph.
...The Telegraph noted that cladding “is used as an insulation to make buildings more sustainable to meet green energy requirements.”
Some 30,000 buildings in the U.K. have been retrofitted with cladding to cheaply comply with green energy mandates..."
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