Fire crews under attack over flat blaze

• Man says firefighters took too long to reach family • Service says crews arrived within five minutes A man whose wife and two children died in the fire that swept through a London tower block on Friday has criticised the emergency services for taking two and a half hours to reach his family. Another resident has also claimed the fire brigade did not immediately use their ladders to reach those trapped in flats. London fire brigade said a "unique situation" had caused "one of the most significant fires in some time" in a 1960s tower block in Camberwell, south London. The blaze killed six people, including a three-week-old baby. Rafael Cervi, a 31-year-old kitchen porter who lived in the block with his wife, Dayana, daughter Thais, six, and son Felipe, who was three, told the News of the World: "They said they had to go flat... [read full story]                    

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