fire alarm

After TSA notified residents in August of an impending 7% rent increase, nearly 40 tenants emailed letters protesting the rent spike and airing grievances, including malfunctioning fire alarms and elevator breakdowns.

Mr Brown said he also heard “a few beeps” on the fire alarm.

The family of five had gone to bed when a fire alarm activated in their house at about 21:40 BST.

Some residents couldn’t hear a fire alarm and like those at Grenfell had to decide to stay put or get out.

During the violence 22 staff in the hotel barricaded themselves into the hotel's panic room while more than 200 asylum seekers were trapped inside the building, despite automated fire alarms telling them to leave.