This fire towards the end of May in London ripped through a roof within a block of flats and questions are being asked about whether the fire risk assessment in London should have been completed sooner. It was booked to look primarily at the roof compartmentation.
Or if the fire risk assessment should have addressed the compartmentation within the block. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
It raises an important question though about the scope of a life safety fire risk assessment compared to a property protection fire risk assessment.
Compartmentation is the latest fire safety topic to become a hot talking point and understandably so. However, you could also argue that there may have been more than adequate provisions within the building to safely evacuate all occupants long before the roof spread so fiercely.
There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer but my point is that a life safety risk assessor in this building could well have done his job here and made sure everybody could escape.
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