She has told Councils to complete urgent safety checks on similar tower blocks.
Conditions in the staircase were so cramped, fire crews were told they could stay outside to help or go into the burning building without their full breathing apparatus and just their eye gear.
Flames engulf Grenfell Tower in London last week.
Hands cautioned Sunday that investigators still don't know exactly what cladding was used when the building renovation was completed a year ago.
A senior United Kingdom government minister said Sunday that he believed the cladding is banned in Britain for buildings above a certain height.
"As we do everything we can to help them, we will make sure they have the counselling and emotional support they need in the hard days, weeks and years ahead".
"The response of the emergency services, National Health Service and the community has been heroic", the prime minister said in a statement.
Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey apartment block in North Kensington, West London, was set up in 1974.
7 still hospitalized after London mosque attack
A cafe owner who had pinned Osborne to the ground said he's sure the attacker would be dead if the imam hadn't intervened. Basu praised locals for detaining the man, saying that their "restraint in the circumstances was commendable".
He complained bitterly that a friend - the young artist Khadija Saye - was still alive three hours after the fire started but was unable to get out of her apartment to safety.
Cundy said police would consider criminal prosecutions if there is evidence of wrongdoing and the police investigation would include scrutiny of the renovation project. He has not provided details about the inquiry.
Cundy also said the London Fire Brigade searched "every floor of the building" and recovered 16 bodies, but added it may take weeks for the search and recovery operation to become "significant". "Angry not simply at the poor response in the days afterwards from the council and government, but the years of neglect from the council and successive governments".
Monday for the victims and their families.
Speculation has focused on the role that cladding apparently used in a recent refurbishment of the tower may have played in the fire.
Scuffles broke out near the Kensington and Chelsea town hall offices Friday as demonstrators chanting "We want justice!" surged toward the doors. Soon afterwards, British Prime Minister Theresa May was chased away from a local church.
The group said: "In our meeting at Downing Street, we explained to the Prime Minister the anger of all residents towards the management of the estate over a long period of time, paving the way to this tragedy". Numerous displaced are living in churches and community centers.
He added that teams and families of missing loved ones must prepare for "the bad reality" that some of those who died in the fire may never be identified due to the intensity of the fire.
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