Residents living in around 24 flats at a Bristol tower block are being housed in emergency accommodation tonight after a fire ripped through a top floor flat, killing one and injuring eight.
People living in the 14th, 15th, and 16th floors of Twinnell House in Easton will spend their first night away from home after they were evacuated from the building in the early hours of Sunday morning (September 25). Those living on the 14th and 15th floors were, late this afternoon, allowed back in their homes for a short period to collect essential items, but then asked to leave again.
One man died when he fell from a 16th floor window trying to clamber to safety as a fire spread through the flat he was in - it is believed two other men managed to get to neighbouring flats by edging their way along the side of the building.
