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In her report, Prof Niamh Daeid says external fire hoses were also used to tackle the fire in Flat 16. Footage from a video flat 16 resident Bahailu Kebede took from outside the building, once he had left his flat, showed the extractor fan in his kitchen window, on fire.

Fire investigators, attending in the aftermath of the blaze that engulfed Grenfell Tower, subsequently entered flat 16. At this point the fire scene investigation was focused primarily on the area of the kitchen that contained the window and the tall fridge freezer, the report states.



Other electrical items in the kitchen, including a a hot plate and old freezer and a small fridge, none of which were believed to have been plugged in at the time, were taken away for examination, as was the tall fridge freezer. There were other items between the tall fridge freezer and the wall, which have not yet been identified, the report states.



The fact that laminate flooring from underneath the tall fridge freezer revealed a burn pattern that was not present on the surrounding area indicated it was likely the fire started in this area. There was melting on the socket on the wall next to the tall fridge freezer and burning to the nearby skirting board. There were no traces of any external accelerant, such as petrol.



She states that further electrical examination undertaken by a forensic electrical engineer is required of the materials recovered from flat 16. It was also necessary to identify the materials which were being stored between the tall fridge freezer and the window, which have not been identified. She says:

