Disabled high-rise residents ‘still at risk’ seven years

Firefighters and charities criticise government failure to implement evacuation plans for vulnerable people

• ‘Seven years wasted’: bereaved fight for evacuation plans

“Hundreds of thousands” of disabled residents in high-rise buildings are at risk without evacuation plans, firefighters have warned seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Fire Brigades’ Union (FBU) and the charity Disability Rights UK said the government’s failure to implement evacuation plans for vulnerable residents, one of the main recommendations from the first phase report of the Grenfell Tower inquiry, means “disabled people will continue to face unnecessary and avoidable danger and/or death”.