"Our fire safety officers work closely with Building Control bodies, building owners and local authority partners on a day to day basis to ensure that new buildings, and significant alterations or refurbishments to existing buildings, meet the requirements of the appropriate building regulations".
"People deserve answers. The inquiry will give them that", said May, who set aside her efforts to form a new government Thursday to visit the scene of the blaze.
Whole families remain missing after the fire which forced residents to flee through black smoke down the single stairwell, jump out of windows or even drop their children to safety.
"This fantastic achievement was thanks to the support of hundreds, if not thousands, of local people who wanted to help another group of people in their time of need and grief", said local resident Phil Korklin, who organised the appeal with his wife Katie. "There are flames around us", Trevisan told her mother in a final phone call, family lawyer Maria Cristina Sandrin said.
Around 35 appeals to find missing loved ones have been made in the press and on social media so far. About 600 people were believed to have been inside the tower's 120 flats, many of them asleep, when the blaze ripped through the building.
Missing people posters have been put up throughout the north London neighborhood of North Kensington.
Witnesses told how residents in the upper floors used their mobile phone torches to attract attention, before they disappeared from view, their screams of help falling silent.
"In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale", London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton told NBC News. The cause of the flames has not yet been determined but the BBC reports that investigations are looking at the cladding on the outside of the building as a potential cause of the fire's quick and decisive spread.
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"We saw them dying", Adi Estu, 32, who was evacuated from her home nearby, said. One focus of the investigation is expected to be the building's rain-screen cladding that was installed for better insulation during the almost 10-million-pound refurbishment work carried out on the building past year.
More than £1 million has been raised to help victims of the tragedy as volunteers and charities worked through the night to find shelter and food for people who lost their homes.
St. Clement's Notting Dale, a church near the tower, has turned into an informal center for people searching for missing friends and family. The church is also serving lunch and dinner to survivors. "Praying for auntie", one message read.
On the other side of the church, volunteers sorted a mountain of donated clothing into piles for men, women and children of different sizes while others pack donated food into boxes.
Community centers in London have been overwhelmed by the number of donations flooding in for those left homeless by a high-rise apartment building fire. One heaving table at a church came with a note: "Help yourself".
Many were moved to tears Wednesday at a moment of silent contemplation outside the Notting Hill Methodist Church in west London.
Cundy says Thursday that "as the police, we investigate criminal offenses".
"What we can simply do is look to all that we have seen today - which is good, which is fabulous - people getting together".
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