{"id":55825,"date":"2024-02-22T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=55825"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:42:58","slug":"18m-to-go-towards-fire-safety-in-tower-blocks-across-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/18m-to-go-towards-fire-safety-in-tower-blocks-across-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a318m to go towards fire safety in tower blocks across Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheffield councillors agreed on Monday to spend more than \u00a318m on improving fire safety in 20 tower blocks across the steel city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new measures come mainly as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 when 72 people died and more than 70 people were injured following a fire in a tower block in west London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Party Councillor Douglas Johnson said: &#8220;Especially post-Grenfell, there has been 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