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4 Mar 2021 A sobbing paramedic who had just escorted a dying 18-year-old to hospital confronted a fireman to demand to know why his colleagues had just “stood around” rather than helping save lives at the Manchester bombing. Fire services had arrived at the scene almost two hours after the Islamist suicide attack because police had failed to inform them and the ambulance service of the incident. The remarks were reported during the most recent sitting of the inquiry into the terror attack ...

Manchester Arena: Crying paramedic asked firefighters why they were ‘stood around’, inquiry told Vincent Wood © Provided by The Independent Firefighters were begged by a paramedic to attend the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing after she had found them “stood around” a mile away, a public inquiry into the response to the incident has heard. Fire engines did not attend the scene of the blast on 22 May 2017 until two hours after the attack was launched. The explosion...

Retired fire officer Alan Topping told an inquiry firefighters should have been at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing within 10 minutes. It took two hours for an engine to arrive.