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Bolton flats blaze: Students to be re-housed as £10,000 raised

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November 17, 2019
Bolton flats blaze: Students to be re-housed as £10,000 raised
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The blaze at The Cube in Bolton broke out on Friday and took more than nine hours to bring under control

Students who were forced to flee a block of flats hit by a major blaze in Bolton are to be re-housed.

An investigation is under way after the fire ripped through The Cube on Friday, leaving dozens of students with “no personal possessions”.

More than £10,000 has been raised for the University of Bolton students through a crowdfunding appeal.

Two people were injured in the fire, amid confusion among residents because fire alarms go off “almost every day”.

Concerns have also been raised about the cladding on the outside of the building, although it is different to the material used at Grenfell Tower, where a blaze killed 72 people in London, in 2017.

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Up to 200 firefighters tackled the blaze

The Cube, owned and managed by private firm Urban Student Life (USL), accommodates about 220 people.

Keira Rivetts, who lived in the six-storey building, told BBC Breakfast: “Most of us have [lost belongings], especially those who lived on the top and fifth floor – all their belongings have gone.”

Prof George Holmes, vice-chancellor of the university, said affected students could access £500 for emergency provisions.

“We’ve made sure all students have accommodation for next week,” he said.

Many international students were left without their passports after the blaze, but Prof Holmes said the government has “assured me they will fast-track those student passport and visa requirements”.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson met students during a visit on Saturday

Ms Rivetts had just returned from work when she heard the alarms going off.

“[But] because it goes off so often, I just thought it’s another false alarm, it’s not a problem,” she told the BBC.

Beverley Hughes, deputy mayor of Greater Manchester, said the fire “spread very, very rapidly indeed and it needed very aggressive firefighting tactics to bring it under control”.

Students and emergency services were praised for the evacuation after Friday’s blaze, tackled by up to 200 firefighters, broke out at 20:30 GMT.

“The immediate evacuation clearly made an incredible difference… students ambassadors were going about banging on doors, getting everybody out,” David Greenhalgh, leader of Bolton Council, said.

“We have been assured that all alarms were working so that building was evacuated in the time that was needed.”

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About 220 students lived at The Cube in Bolton

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said the fire service had learnt from the Grenfell fire and had also sent a team “to focus on the evacuation rather than fighting the fire”.

A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said: “It is not yet known when the students will be able to get back into their homes but work is ongoing to assess the safety of the building and access will be reviewed on Monday.”

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GMFRS confirmed that The Cube was inspected along with other high-rise buildings in 2017, following the Grenfell tragedy.

They said a letter was sent to the building’s management “requiring the fire risk assessment to be updated to consider the risk of internal and external fire spread”.

“As part of this assessment, the building was operating an evacuation strategy,” a spokesman said.

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The fire started on the fourth floor, owners Urban Student Life confirmed

The high-pressure laminate cladding used at The Cube is not the same as the now-banned aluminium composite material (ACM) at Grenfell, Salford mayor Paul Dennett said.

“We have a bit of a cladding lottery,” he added.

“The government has made resources available for ACM but this is high-pressure laminate, so we will be asking government for more funds to really deal with what is an industrial crisis.

“We need to do a full investigation of this building because it’s not just about the cladding, it’s about the actual structure of the cladding system and we need to investigate whether compartmentation has been breached and a whole host of different issues”.

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