£100 MILLION FIRE SAFETY WIN in Bristol, UK

After a fatal fire late in 2022, residents got organised with @acorn_bristol to campaign for fire safety measures, and they won! Shaban, a leader of Bristol Towers United, chats with Bristol's head organizer about how £100m worth of fire safety measures will now be implemented across all of Bristol’s council tower blocks👊
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- £46m to remove potentially dangerous cladding
- £32.7m for sprinkler systems for all 62 tower blocks
- £12.4m for round the clock fire wardens at 38 blocks (until the cladding is removed or sprinklers installed)
- £8.7m for new fire alarm systems

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