22 Nov 2017

MBIE using Grenfell blaze to scare NZ - fire engineer

From Morning Report, 7:18 am on 22 November 2017

A leading fire engineer is accusing government officials of using the Grenfell Tower tragedy to needlessly scare New Zealanders. Fire and Emergency New Zealand has justified controversial changes to fire rules being rushed in this week by citing the London blaze that killed 71 people in June. Tony Enright says it's reprehensible, and predicts the rule change will cause chaos around fire design for very tall buildings.