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The Pittsburgh Company Behind A Deadly UK Fire

The Pittsburgh Company Behind A Deadly UK Fire

City Cast Pittsburgh

June 7, 202212m 26sExplicit

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Show Notes

Five years ago, a refrigerator caught fire in an apartment inside the Grenfell Tower in London. It burned to the ground, ultimately killing 72 people — many of them children. And there’s a Pittsburgh manufacturing firm at the center of that story.

Local filmmaker and multimedia artist Chris Ivey has interviewed dozens of survivors about their trauma. He’s with us to talk about how he got involved, how you can see his new film, and what justice means for the hundreds of displaced people looking to Arconic for answers.

Read the NYT piece about Arconic’s actions in Russia here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/europe/russia-ukraine-arconic-samara.html

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