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Fire service 'sorry' for two-hour delay getting to Manchester Arena terror attack but police were 'silent'

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Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has apologised for taking two hours to respond to the Manchester Arena terror attack.At the public inquiry into the attack on Wednesday, the service blamed 'silence' from the police on the night of the bombing which led fire service bosses to assume there was a continuing marauding terror strike and so firefighters were kept back.But they pointed to an infamous terror training exercise at the Trafford Centre some 12 months before the Arena attack where there was an almost identical communications failure which delayed firefighters and paramedics reaching the scene for 90 minutes.The revelations emerged on day 13 of the Manchester Arena public inquiry as organisations involved in the aftermath,.

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