Last week, Victoria’s Planning Minister, Richard Wynne, assured Melbournians that a fire like the one which engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower, killing more than 50 people, could not happen in Melbourne:
“This would not be possible in Melbourne, or Australia in fact, because we have the strongest building codes really of any first-world country,” he said, noting that the London apartment had neither sprinklers nor a central fire alarm.
