When 79 people are killed after a fire rages through their apartment complex – a place where people are entitled to feel safe and secure – it’s only natural for people to seek out whatever sliver of ‘positive’ stories of escape they can find.
So when news broke that 12 days after the tragedy, a baby had been found alive in the burnt-out remains of the Grenfell Tower, the story went viral.

The story claimed the baby had survived the blaze, and had been found on the sixteenth floor of the tower.