'A lot of the guys won't work on timber frame again'

摘要

At 3.39pm on 12 July this year, excavator driver Frank Torrance was driving between two timber-framed buildings at the Beaufort Park development in Colindale, north London, when he smelled smoke. He looked up to see flames inside one of the buildings and immediately dialled 999. CCTV footage from a camera on the Hendon Police College next door shows that, just three minutes later, the six-storey apartment block where the fire started was ablaze. Eight minutes after Torrance made his call, flames leaped 40m into the air and the block collapsed.