That had little to do with stairs, but it was caused by the use of inappropriate combustible materials, which were forbidden for buildings of that height in many countries of continental Europe, but they were allowed in Great Britain were regulations were much more lax.

So that event is strictly specific to UK and not representative for Europe in general.

We (UK) had banned those materials too until the tories decided to unban them because many of them are also property developers.

The materials were also forbidden in the UK, but the enforcement of the regulations was very poor.

(The materials are produced for use on 1-2 storey buildings, which is fine.)

That was due to missing stairs? And there is a difference between skyscrapers and 3-6 story multi-apartment buildings where in the worst case you can even exit fine with fire truck ladders or assisted jumps, but the article says even required for those, which would really feel ridiculous for those kind of buildings here. No need to be salty, we find each other alien on many levels :D

The cause is irrelevant, 72 people died in a building fire in 2017. That didn’t need to happen.

Didn't doubt that, but that tragedy was not the point of the "embafflement"-response to the "embafflement"-statement actually, what was my point, so pointless in total, same as you now calling that out again...

Fire deaths per 100k in 2019:

US .82

UK .38

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates

you understand that 1/3 of the country lights on fire annually?