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I was devastated to be honest i just want to make sure all of my people are safe a big part of my family already. something we have never been through before. thank god we are safe, you know? >> fire crews are still out here in the bronx trying to figure out exactly how the blazes start up or they believe it's concentrated on the second and third floor that is what mostly had serious, serious damage. hearing from people and 12, 13, 14 floors and of their apartments were full of that black smoke. that things spread rapidly through the building. as we heard from the fire commissioner said one of...

Apartments. however, many will not be able to return safely. the city and the red cross now trying to house them as quickly as possible, katy. >> just to clarify for me, the deaths in this building, were they due to smoke inhalation or was it the fire itself consuming different apartments? >> reporter: officials have said that this was largely due to smoke inhalation. again, this was a thick, black, deadly amount of smoke. the fire itself, they say, only really went across the hallways where this two-story apartment was, right? the second and third floor. it was that smoke that went all the wa...

Crown heights was signed off by an approved inspector as meeting the requirements of building regulations at the time of construction. contractors involved said the development was built in line with regulations, and the national house building council, in charge of building control at crown heights, told us the primary responsibility for achieving compliance with building regulations rests with the builder. graham has worked in the construction sector for four decades. he says building regulations have shrunk from 300 pages to 24 pages over the years and can be ambiguous. i think anybody livi...

Crown heights was signed off by an approved inspector as meeting the requirements of building regulations at the time of construction. contractors involved said the development was built in line with regulations, and the national house building council, in charge of building control at crown heights, told us the primary responsibility for achieving compliance with building regulations rests with the builder. graham has worked in the construction sector for four decades. he says building regulations have shrunk from 300 pages to 2a pages over the years and can be ambiguous. i think anybody livi...

Is not enough restriction for fire spread is living in a building that doesn't comply with building regulations. and in my view, there's no way that the leaseholders or the residents should be responsible for paying for that remediation. to what extent has this crisis been 20, 30 years in the making? i think it goes back into the �*70s and the �*80s, actually in terms of the whole deregulation bandwagon. we were having meetings with government in 2009, 2010 with our concerns about the quality issues on building sites. so it's been there for a very long time. rewind to 1984. this is a bbc d...