A senior paramedic offered to enter the blast zone following the Manchester Arena bombing to help but was told to concentrate on a role of 'parking officer' for ambulances, the independent inquiry into the atrocity heard today (Monday).
Derek Poland, an operational commander for North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), was asleep when he got a call to head to the arena.
By the time he arrived at the venue, 30 minutes after the explosion, only one paramedic was in the City Room, the foyer of the arena in which suicide bomber Salman Abedi had detonated a huge improvised device, killing 22 and injuring hundreds more.
As the independent inquiry into the atrocity resumed today (Monday), Mr Poland, an operational commander at NWAS, revealed he told
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