Fire brigades union chief says crews were waiting to travel in,but the ‘order never came’Firefighters felt embarrassed” and “ashamed” that they were stopped from helping victims of the Manchester Arena terrorism attack more quickly, the north-west secretary of the Fire Brigades Union has said.
Mark Rowe said crews were waiting to be deployed after the bombing – some of them so close that they had heard the explosion – but “the order never came down from the top”. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk