leftwinger
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I tried to find out "how many are missing". The information is not easily available on lazy internet search.
They must have a record of WHO lived in that tower. How many are accounted for? How many are missing? We can hope it is only 30 dead. My original estimate is way off I hope.
Terrible and tragic and this girls father escaped because he was visiting a friend who lived on the third floor, we can see from pictures of Grenfell Tower that the Ground Floor up to floor 5 was unaffected by the inferno, the Urbano family lived on floor 20, the below article says that Jessica Urbano made it down to floor 18 and hasn't been heard from since, unfortunately there is zero chance this young girl is still alive.
'Mummy come and get me' - Mother’s agony as she comes home to pleading phone call from 12-year-old daughter
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"The mother of a 12-year old girl missing after the Grenfell Tower blaze has told of their last phone call before she lost all communication with her.
Adriana Urbano was returning from her job as an office cleaner late when her daughter Jessica rang her to say there was a fire in their building.
Mrs Urbano told The Telegraph: "Jessica had been asleep in our flat when something woke her - I don't know if it was the smoke or a fire alarm - so she rang me at 1.39am as I was on my way home from work.
She said 'Mum where are you? Mummy come and get me'."
Mrs Urbano said she urged Jessica to run down the stairs of the tower block and try to find a fire fighter to lead her to safety.
"I told her to get out of there as quickly as she could. I said 'run as fast as you can', but then the line cut out."
Jessica had also managed to call her father Ramiro after fleeing from their 20th floor flat and is understood to have made it as far as two floors further down.
Mrs Urbano and her husband - who was visiting a friend on the third floor at the time of the fire and was prevented by firefighters from going upstairs to reach his daughter - have heard nothing since about their daughters whereabouts and are hoping against hope she somehow made it out alive.
"We are desperate for news but we have not heard anything," she said. "I've got no idea what's happened to her. We are so worried."
'Mummy come and get me' - Mother’s agony as she comes home to pleading phone call from 12-year-old daughter
WTH? this "father/husband" doing "visiting a friend" on the 3rd floor at 1:45AM while the "wife" is out working? 12 year old left upstairs "alone" on the 20th floor asleep? Fire rages above him, while he "visits" a friend? Was he asleep down there?
I don't like loose ends.