Witnesses to an inferno tearing through a high-rise tower block in West London have described seeing people trapped in the building.
There is still no official word on how many residents managed to escape the fire in the Grenfell Tower, but officials have confirmed six people have died.
Tim, who lives 600m from the fire, told ABC News 24 he had heard locals claiming that children had been thrown from windows as the fire raged.
He said the scene was one of absolute devastation and shock among the residents who got out.
“They just sat there and watched, watched their home burn. There’s nothing they can do about it,” he said.
Tim said the “sheer scale of the fire has to be seen to be believed.
“I don’t know how on Earth you would ever get in it. It’s a very densely populated block of flats, as is the whole area,” he said.
“It was about 2:00am and it was just a sheer volume of noise, lots of sirens and shouting and screaming and helicopters, then kind of ‘what on Earth is going on?’
“Then I looked out the window and just saw the tower which is at the end of our road — the whole of one side was just completely in flames, like 24, 25 storeys just up in flames and I have never seen anything that extensive before.
“You could still see people in the other side of the building flashing their phone light to try to get attention…
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