STORY: A British government probe into the country's deadliest residential blaze since World War Two concluded that the deaths from the Grenfell Tower fire were the result of incompetence and greed.
Here's the head of the inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick.
"The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable, and those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years and in a number of different ways by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants."
The report released on Wednesday (September 4) comes more than seven years after 72 people died when flames ripped through the 23-story social housing block in one of London's richest areas.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized to the relatives of victims and survivors, saying they had been failed for years and action was being taken.
"So I can tell the House today that this government will write to all companies found by the inquiry to be part of these horrific failings as the first step to stopping them being awarded government contracts. And we will, of course, support the Metropolitan Police and the prosecutors as they complete their investigations."
The 1,700 page report said the inferno, started by an electrical fault in a refrigerator, was the culmination of profits being put before people.
Namely by the companies and authorities involved in the maintenance and refit of the apartment tower.
Flames spread uncontrollably because the tower had been covered with cladding made of flammable material that acted as a fuel source.
Some companies are accused of dishonestly marketing the materials as safe - claims those companies deny.
British police have said 58 people and 19 firms and organizations are under investigation.
But prosecutions - including for corporate manslaughter and fraud - remain years away because of the complexity and need to consider the inquiry's report.
At a forum for survivors and relatives of the disaster, many said they are yet to see justice.
Hisam Choucair lost his mother, sister, her husband and their children in the fire.
"This inquiry was forced on us. We had no say. We were not consulted. And like I say, to some it gives answers. And to some it doesn't do anything except it's put that extra nail in the coffin, as they say, or in the hearts."
Government figures from July showed over 3000 buildings standing at 11 meters or higher in Britain still had unsafe cladding, with remediation work yet to start on more than two-thirds of them.
