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