Quote Originally Posted by smashup View Post
I donated some money into a ladys bucket at Paddington station today which is just down the road, she said it was dodgy gas that might have somehow started it off but the cladding used is pure criminal.
If they would have spend just £2 more they would have bought the fire resistant cladding instead of the cheaper flammable stuff they used.

People are still sleeping in their cars over a week on and some were given £10 a night to "help them out in the short term"? WTF

It's fucking unbelievable whats happened to these people.
You have to feel for them. Being suddenly displaced and losing everything literally within one hr or less is near dehumanizing. Unless you have immediate family close or a good chunk of money in the bank you go into hr to hr improvising looking for any semblance of 'normal'. We were flooded out a decade ago no insurance, the property roped off and ruled uninhabitable even though you could 'see' your possessions no one is allowed back in. No hotels, no cash and slept in the auto in a fookin Walmart parking lot for days with sponge baths at car washes (that shit hurts btw) or any store bathroom you could manage. You count on the kindness of strangers like never before and it's all you can do not to snap.

Do you guys have anything like the Red Cross over there? With isolated fires or apartments being damaged badly they try to chip in for at least a few nights in a hotel here and a few hot meals. Good on you for coming out of your own pocket for them.