direct to your inboxA tearful paramedic, around two hours after the Manchester Arena bombing, pleaded with firefighters to get to the scene, telling them: "I have just taken an 18-year-old girl in the back of my ambulance who died en route to hospital, and you lot are just stood around," the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.And a former senior firefighter, now retired, described the delayed response by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service as 'the lowest point of my career'.Alan Topping, a station manager who was also a command support officer on the night, said 'angry and frustrated' firefighters were desperate to deploy to the Arena, but 'decisions were being made elsewhere'.
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