Fears that new cladding made Grenfell Tower 'light up like a matchstick': First bodies are removed from building as 12 are confirmed dead and dozens missing amid chilling warning that 'nobody on top three floors survived' 12 confirmed dead and death toll will rise after huge inferno broke out at a residential tower block in London Dozens including children and elderly still missing after fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in White City at 1am Many residents believed to still be trapped inside the 27-storey building as it teeters on the brink of collapse Residents were seen throwing themselves and their children out of windows to avoid being burned to death More than 600 residents desperately tried to escape the flames as the fire broke out in the middle of the night Surivors claimed there was no working fire alarm, sprinklers failed and the only staircase out was blocked The London Ambulance Service said 79 people have been rushed to six different hospitals around the capital Grenfell's residents warned landlord KCTMO about 'appalling' fire safety and say refurb contributed to blaze Send your photos and videos of the fire at Grenfell Tower in White City to mailonlinepictures@dailymail.co.uk
At least 12 people have died, 74 are in six London hospitals including 20 in a critical condition after Grenfell Tower blaze started at 1am; Dozens more are feared dead or missing with one source claiming total could run into the hundreds. The Casualty Bureau number is 0800 0961 233; Trapped residents begged to be rescued while waving white towels, torches and mobile phones after being urged to stay in their flats; Petrified people were seen throwing themselves and their children out of windows - a baby tossed from the '9th or tenth floor' was caught and survived - but the mother's fate is unknown 200 firefighters with 40 engines needed to tackle 'unprecedented' blaze and pulled 65 from inside the blaze - residents claim that fire alarms didn't work, sprinklers failed and only stairwell used as exit was blocked; Residents gave repeated warnings about 'appalling' fire safety to landlord Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), whose four bosses earned £650,000 between them last year; New plastic rain-proof cladding encasing the building in £10million refurbishment 'went up like a match' and helped fire spread quickly from fourth floor to 27th floor - although the contractor insists it was safe; Dozens of similar blocks from the 1960s and 1970s refurbished in recent years have the same or similar new cladding - Experts have said a blaze like this in a tower block was 'a disaster waiting to happen' Local community including celebrities bring food and clothes to crisis centres while others offer the now-homeless places to stay;
Mena: I am very sorry about the lost of life and material possessions in the London Grenfeld Tower fire. My condolences to the family of the victims. It is very scary to have a fire in a apartment building where you are living. Everybody is trying to live the building at the same time. Smoke that lower visibility and make it difficult to bread and fire can turn that building into a dead trap.
The lesson lurned from tha fire is more fire resistant material should be use in building construction. Fire alarm and sprinkler should be use in every floors of the building.
Pictured: Smoke billows from the smoldering skeleton of the Grenfell building in west London, after a devastating blaze ripped through the 27-storey tower block at 1am today
The blaze has been described as a once in a generation disaster and could prove to one of the worst disasters Britain has seen in recent years
There are real fears that that nobody who lived on the top three residential floors may have survived the unprecedented fire
This aerial photo taken hours after the fire ripped through the tower block shows the devastating scale of the inferno
Undertakers remove bodies from Grenfell Tower today but the recovery of the dead is likely to take several more days as the fire is still not out
The 27-storey Grenfell building, which was built in 1974 but refurbished last year, has an average of six flats per floor lived in by council tenants and a smaller number of private owners or tenants
Residents wearing masks to help filter out fumes in the air call loved ones and drink water as they wait near the scene
Grenfell Tower is in one of London's most diverse communities and this group sit on the pavement outside a temporary aid centre nearby, some of whom were in tears
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In this image taken by eyewitness Gurbuz Binici, a huge fire engulfs the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in Latimer
Worried people were glued to their phones and looked sick with worry as the scale of the disaster began to emerge
Anxious residented - young and old - speak on phones or watch the devastation in front of them in west London today
People have travelled from all over London and beyond to donate food, drink and offer shelter to anyone who needed help
A large group of firefighters rest at the scene of the huge fire at Grenfell tower block in White City, London, this morning
Khadija Saye, who lives on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower in west London is also among those who are currently missing. Friends said that she was recognisable by the Africa pendant she always wears around her neck
Jessica is pictured with her parents Ramiro and Adriana. Jessica's parents last heard from her at 1.39am when she phoned from a fire escape in the flats Grenfell Tower in Latimer Road, White City, is currently 'lurching' to one side after a 'very, very severe fire' broke out in the early hours of Wednesday morning, causing people to 'beg for their lives'
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Francis Dean said his sister Zainab (left) told been told by firefighter to remain in her flat on the 14th floor along with her son Jeremiah, 2. Also missing is Nadia Choucair (right)
One of the many residents to be evacuated from the fire tries to reach somebody on the phone as others desperately sought to be reunited with missing loved ones
On top of Hell: Firefighters scale Grenfell Tower as they scour for bodies of victims on the top floors where 'no one survived' An unknown number of bodies remain in the burnt-out tower amid fears the death toll could top 100 More than 70 of the block's 500 residents remain unaccounted for more than two days on from the fire Official death toll was increased to 30 today as it emerged that one of those taken to hospital had died Fire crews and police have warned it may take weeks or months to recover all of those killed in the blaze Some of the victims may never be identified, the police revealed as they launched criminal investigation The Queen and Prince William visited volunteers at a support centre near the devastated tower today
Inside hell's tower: Charred tomb in the sky is revealed in horrific first images inside Grenfell Tower as police now say 79 people died in fire that enraged Britain New photos show the charred interiors of former homes of hundreds of families Police reveal official number of people missing or dead has increased to 79 Appeal launched for people who may have been visiting tower at the time of fire At least 79 people died, are missing, presumed dead, after blaze in west London
These are the people who lived in the tower and are still missing following the blaze on Wednesday
Harrowing images show the charred remains of flats and hallways that were once home to hundreds of families before the blaze broke out on Wednesday morning
One grab from a police video shows how the plaster has fallen from the walls, exposing the flat's pipework
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