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Failed Cladding Systems Found on 82 UK Buildings

British authorities have announced an independent review into building regulations after new tests identified 82 apartment towers whose cladding system failed to meet fire safety tests after the west London tower block blaze that killed at least 80 people. Britain …

UK Police Consider Corporate Manslaughter Charges in High Rise Fire

British police said Thursday they have “reasonable grounds” to suspect that local authorities may have committed corporate manslaughter in a deadly high-rise fire in London. The Metropolitan Police force said it has officially informed the Royal Borough of Kensington and …

Maine Prosecutor Says Bedrooms in Burning Home Were ‘Death Traps’

An apartment house where six people died in a fire had been neglected during foreclosure and lacked alternative exits, allowing several bedrooms to become “death traps” when the blaze spread upstairs, a prosecutor said Monday to open the homeowner’s manslaughter …

Landlord Pleads Guilty in 2010 Deadly Fire, Will Pay $1M in Restitution

Prosecutors say a , N.Y., landlord has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in connection with a 2010 fire that killed five people. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office said Monday that landlord Vasilios Gerazounis will be sentenced to one to …