Six dead, sixty-four injured - they are now in hospitals, and twenty of them - in critical condition - this is, according to the latest information, the result of a fire in a high-rise building in London, the cause of which could be just an explosion of a domestic refrigerator. Although this is only one version of the terrible fire. But whatever the reason, while the 24-storey residential tower was burning, it was hell, recalled the events of the last night, eyewitnesses.
"I saw a woman who was trying to save her child by dropping him from the window of the ninth or tenth floor. When she did this, someone ran upstairs and managed to catch him. Cries of help were heard from all sides. A friend of my daughter told me that he saw a man trying to make a makeshift parachute and go down from the window, "Samir Lamrani told AP..
Because of the high speed of fire spread, people trapped in a fire trap lost their self-control, panicked. Trying to save their lives, they decided on desperate actions: they threw their children from the windows and jumped into the fire themselves.
"One woman threw her son out of the window of the fifth or even sixth floor. I think he's okay, maybe there are bruises and fractures, but most importantly, he's alive, "Zara recalled in an interview with LBC, a resident of a burnt house.
The fire was so strong that neighboring streets and even blocks filled with ashes. All he filled in was and was in 100 m from the burning building the host of the program "Amazing Space", George Clarke. He told Radio 5 Live that he saw a man on the upper floors of the building, who was giving light signals to the rescuers, but what happened to him further on Clark does not know.
People from the upper floors tried to attract the attention of rescuers and show that they are still alive, but often firefighters simply could not physically help them.
"Someone jumped from the top floor window directly into the fire. The man blinked before the flashlight signal SOS and shouted: "Help, help, help!", But no one helped. And then he threw the mattress from the window and jumped out himself, "said eyewitness Adil Alamili.
The Guardian report, Alice Ross, also said that she saw a man who was waving a blanket from his window and calling for help, while firemen poured water on him in attempts to extinguish the flames.
Those who managed to leave the house burnt by fire, said that a strong smoke just did not allow people to leave their apartments.
"I looked through the peephole, and saw that everywhere the smoke and all my neighbors there. And firefighters shout: "Get down on the stairs". It was hell, "- said in an interview with BBC Radio one of the residents of the bloc, Michael Paramasivan.
Many people desperate to wait for the help of firefighters, were preparing to jump down, and, those who were below, persuaded them not to do this.
"We saw people in the tower sitting on the windows and saying:" I'm going to jump down, "we shouted to them: do not do this, help will come soon!" - residents of neighboring houses told.
One of the firemen, Jodi Martin told the BBC that he saw one person drop out of the window, and from the other window saw a woman holding her child. "I shouted to them that they should go down, and they answered that they can not do this, since the corridor is filled with thick smoke".
The fire in a 24-storey residential building in western London in the area of ??North Kensington began today at about one o'clock in the morning. The fire quickly spread throughout the house. The building completely burned out, the fire took away human lives.