‘My body shakes even now’: how Grenfell survivors were failed in the days after the tragedy

Some residents were moved to rooms in high-rise buildings, others did not know they were entitled to food, and religious needs were overlooked Maryam Adam said her whole body shakes when she recalls the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire and its immediate aftermath. She was three months pregnant when she escaped the inferno and stood outside aghast, watching the flames rise up the 24-storey block in west London as her neighbours screamed for help.