As fire raged through the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in the early hours of Wednesday morning, one teenage girl who lived in the building rang a close friend to tell her: "We are not going to make it, I love you."

The girl's mother is understood to be Nadia Choucair, a teaching assistant at Avondale Park Primary School, who lived on one of the top floors of the tower with her husband, three daughters and mother in law.

A local resident named Hulya told the Daily Mirror: "My neighbour told me that one of the daughters rang her own daughter at about 12.30 saying they weren't going to make it and that she loved her.

"She's about 13 I think. Nobody has been able to contact any of them since. It's just awful."