Rescuers reveal 'unknown numbers' of bodies are stuck in inferno tower raising fears HUNDREDS died - as ministers face fury over why they ignored repeated warnings over 'fire hazard' cladding
Grenfell Tower in west London this morning. Fire chiefs say it would be a 'miracle' if anyone left inside is still alive. Firefighters have reached the top but have been unable to enter flats and room because the building is too unstable
Nobody left in the London tower block which burned down on Tuesday night is still alive, fire crews have said.
Rescuers say there are still 'unknown numbers' of people dead inside, but at the moment it is too risky to try to recover them from the upper floors of the fire-ravaged and unstable Grenfell Tower.London fire chief Dany Cotton told Sky News: 'Tragically now we are not expecting to find anyone else alive. The severity and the heat of the fire would mean it is an absolute miracle for anyone to be left alive.'
Full searches of the upper floors, where no one is said to have survived, are yet to be carried out.
In a separate interview, Ms Cotton told ITV today: 'Some of the internal structures are not regarded as safe at the moment, however the central core is, so my firefighters have been up to the top floor last night, they have done the initial brief search from the doorways.'
'So although we've been up there we haven't managed to do a comprehensive search and until we can make the building safe then I really don't want to risk the safety of my firefighters at this moment in time,' she added.
Ms Cotton said structural surveyors and urban search and rescue specialists would inspect the building on Thursday and once it was declared safe a full search would take place.
Dozens of people, possibly more than a hundred, of the building's 600 residents are feared dead after the devastating blaze ripped through the tower block. Seventy eight people were taken to hospital, with 18 fighting for lives in critical conditions.
Pictures of the tower today show the burnt-out flats on the upper floors, which are now blackened hulks with little left intact
How the fire ripped through Grenfell Tower: At 2.05am, left, the blaze was restricted to one side of the building. By 2.35am, centre, it was spreading fast. And by 4.17am, right, the whole block was in flames
By mid morning, the plastic cladding could be seen charred and melted on the tower in west London
This aerial photo taken hours after the fire ripped through the tower block shows the devastating scale of the inferno
Rescuers say there are still 'unknown numbers' of people dead inside, but at the moment it is too risky to try to recover them from the upper floors of the fire-ravaged and unstable Grenfell Tower.London fire chief Dany Cotton told Sky News: 'Tragically now we are not expecting to find anyone else alive. The severity and the heat of the fire would mean it is an absolute miracle for anyone to be left alive.'
Full searches of the upper floors, where no one is said to have survived, are yet to be carried out.
In a separate interview, Ms Cotton told ITV today: 'Some of the internal structures are not regarded as safe at the moment, however the central core is, so my firefighters have been up to the top floor last night, they have done the initial brief search from the doorways.'
'So although we've been up there we haven't managed to do a comprehensive search and until we can make the building safe then I really don't want to risk the safety of my firefighters at this moment in time,' she added.
Ms Cotton said structural surveyors and urban search and rescue specialists would inspect the building on Thursday and once it was declared safe a full search would take place.
Dozens of people, possibly more than a hundred, of the building's 600 residents are feared dead after the devastating blaze ripped through the tower block. Seventy eight people were taken to hospital, with 18 fighting for lives in critical conditions.
Pictures of the tower today show the burnt-out flats on the upper floors, which are now blackened hulks with little left intact
How the fire ripped through Grenfell Tower: At 2.05am, left, the blaze was restricted to one side of the building. By 2.35am, centre, it was spreading fast. And by 4.17am, right, the whole block was in flames
By mid morning, the plastic cladding could be seen charred and melted on the tower in west London
This aerial photo taken hours after the fire ripped through the tower block shows the devastating scale of the inferno
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