A man broke down in tears when describing what happened at Grenfell Tower.
As reported in The Telegraph, the unidentified man described how people trapped in the blazing tower "just threw their kids out screaming 'save my children'".
Mahad Egal told BBC what he saw. "We saw a lot. We saw a lot with our own eyes. We saw friend's families"
He said: "It was rapid, the fire was growing well out of control. There is only the stairs, which is smoke, it's dark, it's scary, it's trip hazard. There's all sorts, there are the elderly, there are children, there's disabled people there are all sorts, there's luggage in the stairwell.
“It's incredible we survived. So many people were left inside. We had relatives and family and friends who called who said 'we are still trapped in, let the fire services know that we are still here'.
Fire engulfed a 24-storey housing block in central London in the early hours on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring at least 50 others in an inferno that trapped residents as they slept.
Flames raced through the high-rise Grenfell Tower block of apartments in the north Kensington area after taking hold around 1 a.m. and witnesses reported many residents desperately calling for help from windows of upper floors.
More than 200 firefighters, backed up by 40 fire engines, fought for hours to try to bring the blaze, one of the biggest seen in central London in recent years, under control.
In late morning, London police said six people had been killed and the death toll was likely to rise.
Fire-fighting crews still had to reach the top four floors of the building where several hundred people live in 130 apartments.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
The block had recently undergone an 8.7 million pound ($11.08 million) refurbishment of the exterior, which included new external cladding, replacement windows and curtain wall facades.
Plumes of black smoke billowed high into the air over the British capital for hours after the blaze broke out. Residents rushed to escape through smoke-filled corridors after being woken up by the smell of burning.
London Fire Brigade said the fire engulfed all floors from the second to the top of the 24-storey block. There were reports that some residents threw themselves out of windows to escape the flames.
"In my 29 years of being a fire fighter, I have never ever seen anything of this scale," London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton told reporters.
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