All 62 high-rise council house blocks in Bristol will be inspected for fire safety in the wake of the Twinnell House tragedy. The city council is investing up to £1million on the checks, which are required under new regulations from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Cabinet members approved the measures, which also include another £1million apiece to refurbish rusting playgrounds that are “no longer safe to use” and to cover the authority's energy price increases at the buildings. It came as mayor Marvin Rees urged tenants not to leave electrical items on charge overnight and praised the response to the fatal Easton blaze.
Asylum-seeker Abdul Jabar Oryakhel, 30, died after falling from a 16th-floor window while trying to escape the blaze in a flat early on Sunday, September 25. Flames broke out when an electric bike charger caught light, and three other people in the flat managed to escape, two by clinging outside a window before firefighters pulled them to safety.
