Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A leading fireman has blamed a 'massive breakdown in communications' for a two-hour delay in getting firefighters to the Manchester Arena on the night of the bombing.
Fire engines based at Manchester Central fire station on Thompson Street - just a few hundred metres from the venue - were ordered to wait at Philips Park fire station, almost three miles away in Miles Platting, the continuing public inquiry into the atrocity was told.
Fire appliances only arrived outside the adjacent Victoria railway station at 37 minutes past midnight, two hours and six minutes after the blast.
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