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Grenfell Tower: Hotpoint fridge freezer started fire, say police Grenfell Tower: Fire started in Hotpoint fridge freezer, say police
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The Grenfell Tower fire in London started in a faulty fridge freezer, and outside cladding failed safety tests, police say. The Grenfell Tower fire in London started in a fridge freezer, and outside cladding failed safety tests, police say.
Insulation on the building also failed tests and the Metropolitan Police will consider manslaughter charges.Insulation on the building also failed tests and the Metropolitan Police will consider manslaughter charges.
Seventy-nine people are missing or presumed dead after the blaze destroyed 150 homes in the Kensington tower block. Seventy-nine people are feared dead after the blaze destroyed 151 homes in the Kensington tower block.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Police said the fire had not been started deliberately.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. Det Sup Fiona McCormack said she wanted to hear about anyone who was in the tower, whether or not they were meant to be in the building.
She said: "I do not want there to be any victims of this tragedy that we do not know about.
"Our priority is to understand who was in Grenfell Tower. We are not interested in people's reasons for being in Grenfell Tower."
The fridge freezer the fire started in was a Hotpoint FF175BP model. Police say the manufacturers have been told, as well as the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Policy.
Further tests were being done on the appliance, they said, and the fridge freezer had never been subject to a product recall.
Some 250 specialist investigators have been deployed to find out what happened.
Det Sup McCormack said police had been in the tower "from top to bottom" adding that next week a lift would be installed to the outside of the building.
But she did say the forensic search "may not be complete until the end of the year".
"There is a terrible reality that we may not find or identify everyone who died due to the intense heat."