Firefighter Les Skarratts says he despairs that lessons were not learned from a fire in 1991.
Events that followed the Knowsley Heights fire "laid the ground" for the Grenfell tragedy, the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower blaze said
By the time firefighters arrived, the entire 11-storey external wall above the bin area was alight, with flames coming out of all windows and from the roof. The entire 11-storey external wall was alight with flames when firefighters arrived at the scene in 1991 It had been installed as part of a pilot scheme for the then-government’s Housing Management Estates Action programme, intended to improve the appearance of high-rise blocks, reduce energy consumption and prevent damp.
Les Skarratts says he and his colleagues from the Fire Brigades Union lobbied the government about the "national scandal"
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