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This is a strong front page to put pressure on the government. I'm in two minds about how the top bar about requisitioning will work, though - I think there's a lot of aspirational rich who will read it negatively even if it's an utterly reasonable response to disaster.
Safety advice has not been adapted to deal with new hazards, which the state should, if the civil service weren't cut to the bone, be keeping an eye on. The new hazard is a function of new building practices, I think - the same problems have popped up in new builds in UAE, for example. Although there the cores of the buildings were newer and so better designed to deal with the possibility, so many fewer lives were lost (although people still lost their homes). Slapping the same materials on older buildings that weren't designed the same way without thinking through the risks may, IMHO, have been part of the problem.
Also re fridge guy - there was stuff in the residents' blog about power surges (see here) that weren't addressed. I think it was very wrong of the journalists who said it was a 'faulty' fridge to leap to that conclusion - I wouldn't have run that line without evidence.