AN investigation has revealed that 55 of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower fire were told to stay inside their homes as the blaze took hold.
A Dispatches documentary, set to air on Channel 4 tonight at 8pm, found there was a deadly breakdown in communication between operatives taking 999 calls and the crew trying to save lives in the West London disaster zone.
The programme, Grenfell: Did the Fire Brigade Fail?, also revealed that firefighters didn’t have the training required to evacuate the building — even though this could have taken just seven minutes.
One firefighter, speaking to the Dispatches team anonymously, said that Michael Dowden, the incident commander on the night of the disaster on June 14, 2017, didn’t have the right guidance.
He said: “There is one line in one of the policies I believe that says consider mass evacuation. But there is no guidance on how to do it.
“Michael Dowden didn’t have the toolkit to tackle that fire. He didn’t have the policies to say ‘right, no that’s it, I’ve lost this, get everyone out of the building’. How on Earth were we put in that position?”
The documentary also highlighted the fact that when the “stay put” policy was reversed around 2.30am the 999 operatives who’d taken calls from residents in the tower didn’t call them back to tell them.
The fire brigade also struggled to respond because their “stay put” policy relied on being able to contain a fire in one part of a building.
Speaking to the recent public inquiry, London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton claimed they couldn’t have trained for an incident like Grenfell where the fire spread so rapidly from flat to flat.
She said: “I wouldn’t develop a training package for a space shuttle to land on the Shard.”
But the documentary highlights the fact that six people were killed in another fire at a block of flats, Lakanal House in Camberwell, South London, in 2009, when containing a fire in one part of the building also failed.
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Then a coroner recommended that the LFB should retrain incident commanders to anticipate this failure. But the Fire service decided their existing training was sufficient.
The anonymous firefighter said: “Everyone was (saying) ‘this fire is unprecedented’. We had a lot of that. I think that’s [the] narrative that they want you to think because that kind of suggests that no one’s responsible.
“But the warning signs were there.”
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