
When the fire alarm went off inside Gurpreet Sanghera’s eighth-floor flat in west London last week, she couldn’t help but think of the images she’d seen of residents fleeing that burning tower block on the other side of town in Dagenham a few hours earlier.
“My partner had just left the building with our son and he wasn’t answering his phone... It was very scary,” says Sanghera, 42, a litigation partner at leading London law firm Simkins LLP who owns a flat inside the Arc Tower in Ealing.