Woman who lost six family members in Grenfell fire questioned if cladding was safe before tragedy

Woman who lost six family members in Grenfell fire questioned if cladding was safeGood Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00Before this devastating night where you lost so many that you loved

00:05Did you or any of the family you lost have concerns about the cladding about the safety?

00:12Or do you feel that you just trusted which you know people do don't we we trust the place we live

00:21Well say when they did that when they did the cladding I did ask the contractor I

00:27Asked him when he was working I said to him are they safe what you're doing

00:32He's like yeah, yeah, they are and I said to him. I don't think so

00:36And what was your concern was it fire or something else?

00:40Number one it's because we were so high up

00:44If we had to escape it would take us so long to go down so long

00:48You know where were you just reminder on the 22nd 22nd floor. Yeah

00:53And it would take so long to get downstairs, you know and

00:59Even like there was no numbers on the stairs one and everything and it was quite not a big

01:05What the system quite big don't get me wrong like the length and everything to go down

01:10But it was quite a long way, especially like if there's anyone disabled or anyone had

01:16Issues like you know pain in the back or pain. My mom did have pain taters

01:22If she couldn't really she walked but not properly, you know, she had pain so

01:27You know, it's they don't think about people living there. They're

01:33What they have, you know issues like coming down the stairs if just in case there was a fire