Special report - King's Cross: The fire that changed London 

he‘s in a better place now (i hope that doesn’t sound rude, if it does then i apologize) God bless him 💗

Sad

me too - up the escalator half an hour before but guessing it could have been smouldering already

Same here.. Lol.

Same here too hahaha

Same!

Same :)

Brought me here to!!

True. When the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred on March 25th, 1911; we as society finally began to take workplace safety as something that has to be taken seriously to prevent injury and loss of life.

thats how life works, it always takes a negative to cause a positive

That is why we now have lots of lifeboats on big ships.

@@FunkeymonkeyTTRYep, almost all the time this is done as a cost saving measure too

May he Rest in Peace.

I read it too and also highly recommend it

At 9:58 someone is having their photo taken in the photo booth! Smoke everywhere? Must get a passport photo.

Different times then. Not as much safety and people often paid little attention.

Times wern't so different, always takes tragedy to move those 'in charge', who prefer to cut corners if given the chance. 6 'serious' escalator fires in 3yrs inbetween Oxford Circus fire & Kings Cross, all caused by 'smoker's materials'. Yet recommendations were too slowly implemented - enforcing the smoking ban, always alerting the fire brigade to any fire [ther'd been a minor 'smoulder' at the bottom of Victoria Line escalators under an hour before the Piccadilly escalator caught fire, just burning tissue; too small to bother fire services with yet had they been called they'd likely still be present when the Piccadilly escalator caught] - cleaning the tracks, training staff to use the 'water-fog' system [those entering the escalator machine room at Kings Cross wern't even aware there was a switch to activate this system, which could've slowed the fire allowing time for fire fighters to tackle it] London Underground management didn't take fire seriously, they assumed they'd remain just a minor nuisance

​@@archiearchmcarch i don't think he was in danger, it was outside

And then cover it with layers and layers and layers of flammable polyurethane.

@@UncoordinatedPixie And allow copious amounts of grease, litter, and fluff to build up underneath the escalators as well as use layers of paint on the walls of the ticket hall.

@@michaellovely6601Then let people light matches for cigarettes atop the stairs.

@@ourcorrectopinions6824 tbf on that point, how could they stop people from doing so? Smoking was still fairly normalized back then.

@@ravenwraith1017 Smoking was banned in stations after the 1984 Oxford Circus fire but the ban wasn't strictly enforced.

King's Cross Fire: background to the French effect. Is another RU-vid video posted 4 yrs ago.

There is an episode of Seconds from Disaster which goes into more detail

Many others have. They dont all need to.

Londoners are genetically hardwired to be pyros?

In America it's privately owned nightclubs and guns and construction bodges. In the UK, it's public transport / council owned flats and, previously , football matches- shows what a haphazard job both countries' neo-liberalism seems to do (for such overall rich countries) in very different ways.

Nikolas Maximilian o

Grenfell tower was an inside job, the authorities used kerosene on it and then set it on fire. Two days after the elections, and the news is covering up the death toll.

We were warned with the fire in dubai on new year... That was the cladding, but everybody just shrugged their shoulderd....

Oxygen?

Well clearly not the ones who vote Tory.

😂 yessir

they wont prosecute becuses all they say in court we been telling the goverment for years that thay need to invest in saftey and they took no notice so the goverment will make sure it dont get to court covering its own back courupt system

no, because that's how it was then

Both would be "winners"; the Great fire changed the skyline, not necessarily for the better, & helped eradicate Plague, whereas Kings Cross fire resulted in long overdue improvements to safety & practices, at the great expense of the injured, dead, & bereaved.

Evidence?

OCD ALERT hahaha

Ken Meade what was then?

@@class37100 OCD can be very, very useful

Xtain Dion how is this propaganda?

What the... 1) How is THIS propaganda or bias? 2) How is Sky “propaganda” or biased?

Dev3LM take it or leave everything concern Britain is a propaganda technique.