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one of the renovators
That's one of my worries at the moment, that the (mostly right wing) press will try to pin the blame on one of the little people. In the way DM tried to blame a named tenant for all the Grenfell deaths.
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I'm not sure how that is comparable. Grenfell was a terrible tragedy because of how the whole thing was built (/ clad etc.), so objectively that's what led to there being so many deaths. In the case of the Cutty Sark, yeah, someone was just an idiot and forgot to turn a vacuum cleaner off. Wooden ships tend to burn when they come in contact with lots of heat or even flames, you can't change that and there's no 'systematic' problem with it the way there was with Grenfell Tower.
SwissChap
It went up so quick that I thought it must be foul play, but then I remembered the Cutty Sark fire from a few years ago that started from one of the renovators power tools overcharging.