FIREFIGHTERS and disability campaigners have slammed the government’s rejection of proposals to make disabled people safer in high-rise flats following the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.

Recommendations for better evacuation procedures for disabled people in emergencies were made by the long-running Grenfell Tower inquiry.

The tower block fire on June 14 2017 killed 72 people. The dead included 15 of the 37 disabled people who lived in the west London block.