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LONDON, June 15-- Anger mounted among survivors and the public as the death toll from Wednesday's deadly tower block fire in London has climbed to 17. ANGER ON THE STREETS Said Ali, a resident on the 15th floor of the totally burned 24-story residential building, told Xinhua Thursday morning that he would have died if he had obeyed instructions to wait in his flat for rescue. Ali, in his early 30s, said he fled his apartment early on Wednesday morning when fire broke out. He explained how he first knew of the fire. "My wife she smelled the smoke. When she opened the door she saw smoke everywhere. There was no alarm, how could people have known?" According to reports, there might be between 400 and 600 people living in the Grenfell tower block in the west London district of Kensington and Chelsea when the fire started. "It has never been safe; we spoke out, we put in complaints but nobody was listening -- because they don't care," Ali told Xinhua angrily. "They tell you 'if you are not happy, go and rent'. That is what they used to say," he said, adding that fire safety in the block of flats had been bad at the time of the blaze, and beforehand too. "I'm not happy because these criminals they kill people." Ali said sadly that he had a friend who lived in the same building and he had been unable to find his friend or his friend's family since the fire and he feared they may have died. | 
