Piles of soot can be seen inside the block of flat where a man fell from a 16th floor window when he was "trapped" inside during a fire when residents claim they didn't hear alarms going off. Residents of Twinnell House in Easton, Bristol, were forced to flee their homes in the early hours of Sunday [September 25] morning after a fire broke out on the top floor at 2.15am.
Police said the man who died is “believed to have fallen from the 16th floor as he tried to escape the fire inside the flat”. Residents claim fire alarms did not sound in the building, leaving police to bang on doors to wake residents and get them to safety.
Seven were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and another for minor burns. A first look inside the building showed thick, black soot on the staircases and the walls leading to the upper floors.
