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List of exterior wall assembly fires

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The following are fires that spread through exterior wall assemblies (cladding, insulation, wall) containing combustible components. Most of them involved high-rise buildings.

United Kingdom and Isle of Man — to be merged with the below list
The 2005 Harrow Court fire in Stevenage caused three deaths
South Korean firefighters in the 2010 Wooshin Golden Suites fire used a helicopter as part of their operations to put out a cladding fire that rose within minutes from the 4th to the 38th floor.[1][2]
  • 1973 Summerland disaster – leisure centre fire in Douglas, Isle of Man, worsened by the ignition of flammable acrylic sheeting covering the building, led to at least 50 deaths.[3][4]
  • 1991 Knowsley Heights fire – a fire in a tower block in Liverpool that had recently been fitted with rain screen cladding spread from the bottom to the top of the building via the 90 mm air gap behind the cladding.[5][6][7]
  • 1999 Garnock Court fire – the fire in a tower block in Irvine, North Ayrshire, spread rapidly up combustible cladding,[8] resulting in one death and four injured.[9] The incident led to a parliamentary inquiry into the fire risk of external cladding and a change of the law in Scotland in 2005 requiring any cladding to inhibit the spread of fire.[10][11]
  • 2005 Harrow Court fire – in a tower block in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, led to three deaths.[12]
  • 2009 Lakanal House fire – in a tower block in Camberwell, South London, led to six deaths and at least twenty injured; an inquest "found the fire spread unexpectedly fast, both laterally and vertically, trapping people in their homes, with the exterior cladding panels burning through in just four and a half minutes."[13]
  • 2010 Shirley Towers fire - two firefighters died after tower block fire rapidly escalated.[14]
  • 2016 Shepherd's Court fire – in a tower block in Shepherd's Bush, West London, a faulty tumble-dryer caught fire on the seventh floor, 19 August 2016. The fire spread up six floors on the outside of the building, which is owned by Hammersmith and Fulham Council. There were no fatalities but some suffered smoke inhalation.[15][16][17][18]
  • 2019 De Pass Gardens fire - a fire in a six-storey tower block in Barking, East London spread through all six floors.[19]
  • 2019 The Cube fire - a fire in a six-storey student residence in Bolton, re-clad in 2018 with high-pressure laminate. The fire spread "extremely rapidly" through the top three floors of the building.[20][21]
Main list
  • 2007 fire at The Water Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey, US) – a fire that occurred as the building was nearing completion spread rapidly up aluminium composite panel cladding with a polyethylene core, from the 3rd floor to the top of the 41-floor building.[8][5]
  • 2009 Beijing Television Cultural Center fire (China) – believed to have spread via insulating foam panels on the building's facade.[22][23]
  • 2010 Wooshin Golden Suites fire (Marine City, South Korea) – spread within 20 minutes from the 4th floor to the top of the 38-storey building, which featured flammable aluminium composite cladding with a polyethylene core, along with insulation made of glass wool or polystyrene.[8][1][2][5]
  • 2010 Shanghai fire (China) – destroyed a 28-storey high-rise apartment building, killing at least 58 people; flammable polyurethane insulation applied to the outside of the building was reported to have been a possible contributory factor.[24][25]
  • 2012 Al Tayer Tower fire (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) – the rapid spread of the fire, which started in a first-floor balcony and spread to the top of the 40-storey (34 residential, six parking floors) tower, was attributed to aluminium sandwich panels featuring a thermo-plastic core.[8][26]
  • 2012 Mermoz Tower fire (Roubaix, France) – saw fire spread rapidly up flammable cladding, resulting in one death and six injured.[27][28]
  • 2012 Tamweel Tower fire (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) – spread across dozens of floors via flammable aluminium cladding.[29][30][26]
  • 2014 Lacrosse Tower fire (Melbourne, Australia) – a fire started on an eighth-floor balcony took just 11 minutes to travel up 13 floors to the building's roof, spreading via the same type of aluminium composite cladding as was used in Grenfell Tower.[31]
  • 2015 fire at The Marina Torch (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) – fire spreading up the cladding of several dozen storeys from the 50th floor to the top of the building.[29][32] A second fire occurred on 4 August 2017, again spreading rapidly up the exterior of the building.[33]
  • 2015 fire at The Address Downtown Dubai (United Arab Emirates) – cladding fire in a supertall hotel and residential skyscraper.[34]
  • 2016 Ramat Gan high-rise fire (Ramat Gan, Israel) – a small fire in a flat quickly spread to the top of a 13-storey tower block via combustible external insulation panelling.[35]
  • 2016 Neo Soho fire (Jakarta, Indonesia) – the fire occurred while the building was still under construction and spread rapidly up dozens of floors via flammable cladding.[36][37][38][39]
  • 2018 Employees Provident Fund building fire (Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia) - the fire occurred due to sparks from maintenance works on the building ignited the outer cladding of the building. This is the first fire involving cladding in Malaysia. No one was reported hurt. The fund stated that "there has been no compromise to the data integrity or members' savings in any manner".[40][41]
  • 2018 Edifício Wilton Paes de Almeida in São Paulo, Brazil was devastated by fire and collapsed. Neighbouring buildings also caught fire.[42] The fire claimed at least 4 lives, with a further 40 people missing as of May 2018.[43]
  • 2019 Neo200 apartment building fire - a fire ignited on the 22nd floor of the apartment building located at 200 Spencer Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and rapidly spread to the 29th floor. It was the second fire at the building; the first happened on 31 December 2015.[44] The tower was known to have the same type of cladding as the Grenfell Tower and the fire was found by a council inspection to have affected sprinkler systems and alarm systems. It was also reported that extra smoke alarms were installed just two weeks before the fire, however some residents had put plastic covers over their smoke alarms. Other residents refused to leave, complicating the evacuation process.[45][46][47]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fire guts high-rise building in Busan". The Korea Times. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "High-rise apartments defenseless against fire". The Korea Times. 3 October 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "'Chilling' similarity to 1973 fire tragedy". IOM Today. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Service to honour Summerland dead". BBC. 4 September 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 White, Nathan; Delichatsios, Michael (20 July 2015). Fire Hazards of Exterior Wall Assemblies Containing Combustible Components. Springer. pp. 37–40. ISBN 978-1-4939-2898-9. Search this book on
  6. ↑ "Warnings over 'deathtrap' high-rise building cladding 'ignored' for decades". The Telegraph. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "How might we avert another tragedy like the Grenfell Tower fire?". The Guardian. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Poh, Weng (26 October 2015). "Stop Fire Spreading Up, Up and Away". Sourceable. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ "Man dies in tower block inferno". Scotland Herald. 12 June 1999. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Vevers, Dan (15 June 2017). "London tower fire: Concerns over cladding stretch back years". STV. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "How 1999 Scottish tower block fire led to regulation change". BBC News. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Errors revealed in fire report". BBC News. 18 May 2006. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  13. ↑ Wainwright, Oliver; Walker, Peter (14 June 2017). "'Disaster waiting to happen': fire expert slams UK tower blocks". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Fatal Fire Investigation, Shirley Towers". Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service. 8 April 2013. p. 12. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  15. ↑ Grossman, David (21 August 2017). "Ministers 'must act on faulty white goods fire risk'". BBC News. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  16. ↑ Smithers, Rebecca (21 August 2017). "London fire brigade calls for urgent action on electrical goods safety". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  17. ↑ Hosken, Andrew (27 June 2017). "Fire brigade raised fears about cladding with councils". BBC. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  18. ↑ "Faulty tumble dryer 'caused Shepherd's Bush tower block fire'". BBC News. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  19. ↑ "Barking fire: Blaze breaks out in east London flats". BBC News. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  20. ↑ Booth, Robert; Busby, Mattha (16 November 2019). "Grenfell United raises concerns over cladding after Bolton student fire". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  21. ↑ "Bolton flats blaze: Student flats' cladding 'a concern'". BBC News. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  22. ↑ Jacobs, Andrew (10 February 2009). "China TV Network Apologizes for Fire". The New York Times.
  23. ↑ "What Sparked TVCC? Experts and architects weigh in on how one of Beijing's most modern buildings took flame so quickly". caijing.com.cn. 19 February 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  24. ↑ "What made the London highrise fire so horrific? Tower's cladding may have helped spread blaze". Toronto Star. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  25. ↑ "Deadly Fire Shows Risks of China's Building Boom". TIME. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 "The Torch blaze reignites concerns over cladding used for Dubai towers". The National. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  27. ↑ Eder, Sebastian (14 June 2017). "Feuerwehr-Chef im Gespräch: Warum ein Feuer wie in London in Deutschland unwahrscheinlich ist" [Fire Department Chief in Interview: Why a Fire like the one in London is unlikely in Germany]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ "London fire: Grenfell Tower 'renovated with deadly cladding'". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 "The chronicle of a tragedy foretold: Grenfell Tower". The Guardian. 17 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  30. ↑ "Cladding issue causes further headache for fire-hit Tamweel Tower". Arabian Business. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  31. ↑ "Cladding in London high-rise fire also blamed for 2014 Melbourne blaze". The Guardian. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  32. ↑ "Hundreds evacuated after fire engulfs Dubai tower". Al Jazeera. 21 February 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  33. ↑ "Large fire rips through Dubai's Torch Tower". BBC News. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  34. ↑ Brook, Benedict; Brennan, Rose. "London Fire: Melbourne skyscraper fire, caused by shoddy cladding, may have been a warning for London". news.com.au. News. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  35. ↑ "Hundreds of Israeli buildings 'as vulnerable' as London's Grenfell Tower". Times of Israel. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  36. ↑ "A Perspective On High Rise Building Fires Involving The Façade". Asia Pacific Fire & MDM Publishing Ltd. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  37. ↑ "Massive fire crawls up multiple floors in uninhabited Neo Soho apartment building, one worker injured". Coconuts Jakarta. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  38. ↑ "pinfa - N-75-09 Jakarta high-rise cladding fire". Pinfa.org. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  39. ↑ "Apartemen Neo Soho Terbakar". Detik. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  40. ↑ Zolkepli, Farik. "EPF building catches fire - Nation". The Star Online. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  41. ↑ hermesauto (13 February 2018). "Fire in Malaysia's EPF building caused by flammable cladding: Official". The Straits Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  42. ↑ Hartley-Parkinson, Richard. "Block of flats collapses in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after fire rips through building". Metro. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  43. ↑ Xinhua (14 May 2018). "Sao Paulo fire: search for victims' bodies discontinued".
  44. ↑ Hall, Bianca; Dow, Aisha; Schetzer, Alana (31 December 2015). "Spencer Street apartment fire: CBD building known to have illegal rooming houses". The Age. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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