also, there are buildings in danger in other parts of the estate and the kensington academy., we appreciate your time. when you've been there throughout the night. thank you very much. safiyah, who still has people she knows living in grenfell tower still unaccounted for. we wish you the best. that is grenfell tower, blazing throughout the night. on behalf of the council, that counts —— the kensington and chelsea council, my colleague greg dawson has been monitoring this event. for viewers joining has been monitoring this event. for viewersjoining us, has been monitoring this event. for viewers joining us, making has been monitoring this event. for viewersjoining us, making up this situation taking place, just to bring us up—to—date with what has happened so far. the fact that we know. a lot of speculation about what happened, he was living there. what we know is that this fire has been going on for five what we know is that this fire has been going on forfive hours. it was just approaching 12:45 a.m.. that is when the fire service were called to this apartment building which

for example, there is a community college behind me called the north kensington academy.also apparently refurbished around the same time. that's closed because it is within the exclusion zone and there were children there meant to be sitting gcse exams, but there will be concerns about other buildings that maybe used the same building materials, used the same refurbishment materials that were used in the tower block itself. so now we're coming to the end of the first stage which is the containment and the extinguishing the fire itself and very sadly, now we're probably going to move on to a search and recovery stage. that was wyre davies earlier on. the people who did manage to escape from grenfell tower have been put up ata number of from grenfell tower have been put up at a number of emergency centres where food and water and blankets are being provided for them and hopefully accommodation as well. let's talk to marco donoghue who is the area dean of kensington. the community is really pulling together here? it's wonderful. the local church opened its door at 3.30am. st

there is a community college behind me called the north kensington academy.bished or rebuilt around the same time. that's closed because it is within the exclusion done, there were children meant to be sitting gcse exams, but there will be concerns, of course, about other buildings that maybe used the same buildings that maybe used the same building material and used the same refurbishment materials that were used in the tower block. we are coming to the end of the first stage which is the containment and the extinguishing the fire and sadly now, we will probably move on to a search and recovery stage. wyre, thank you for that—up date. let's go to our correspondent tom burridge. tom, bring us up—to—date?” to our correspondent tom burridge. tom, bring us up-to-date? i have been down to the community centre, not far from here in that direction and it is very easy to meet someone who knew people living in the apartment block. i met one woman who said she knew a family with three young children and she thought they had not survived and that's a story we seem to b

would have expected this — lovely people, right next to a new school which was just built, kensington or dredge academythere is a big family community here, the leisure centre is just nearby aldredge academy. it is a stones throw away from qwest field white city. there is shepherds bush as well. and latimer road on the other side close to the westway. so, yes, there are churches, it is just a lovely community, but it is very densely populated and people i have spoken to is that it is overcrowded in some part and that there were electrical fault in the building but none had spread like this before. they had been relatively contained. and when it comes to the sense of community, anybody who has been to not eat into an carnival, portobello road, —— notting hill carnival, portobello road, it is very dense, as you say, lots of very small roads. these estates, towering blocks, mixed with edwardian houses. a very diverse community, i would say. absolutely, very diverse and everybody together took an interest, everybody together took an interest, everybody was wishing it was good. it was good to see everybody

in terms of local schools, kensington aldridge academy, the school next door to the tower remains closeduthorities to ensure children sitting their gcses receive an appropriate exam dispensation and specialist counselling has been offered to local school children and teachers affect that by the fire. turning to rehousing, 151 homes were destroyed in the fire, most in the tower itself but also several in the immediate vicinity. all those who have lost their homes have been offered emergency hotel accommodation and all will be offered rehousing within three weeks. already 16a suitable properties have identified and they are being checked and made ready for people to move into. in the longer term everyone who sold was destroyed for the guaranteed a new home on the same terms as the one they lost. 68 of those will be in a brand—new low—rise block that has just been built by arkley homes, the developer has generously offered to turn over the entire block at cost price, contractors are on site now working 2a- contractors are on site now working 2a — seven so that the first families can move in