176 London Fire Brigade: Week 6
This week the Inquiry continued to look at how the London Fire Brigade (LFB) trained its Control Room staff to deal with emergency calls. Evidence was provided by Joanne Smith, the Senior Operations M...
19 Nov 202129min
175 London Fire Brigade: Week 5
This week the Inquiry looked at how the London Fire Brigade (LFB) trained its Control Room staff to deal with emergency calls. Evidence was given by Scott Hayward, former LFB Principal Operations Mana...
12 Nov 202134min
174 London Fire Brigade: Week 4
This week the Inquiry focused on the London Fire Brigade’s firefighting policies for high-rise buildings. Peter Cowup – former Assistant Commissioner of the LFB’s Operational Policy Department, and Pa...
5 Nov 202131min
173 Module 3 Closing Statements and Module 6 Opening Statements
This week the inquiry saw the closing of one module and the beginning of another.The opening statements for module six looked at how local and national policies guided the work of firefighters on the ...
29 Okt 202135min
172 - Expert Witnesses
The inquiry heard evidence from expert witnesses on the London Fire Brigade’s preparedness for the Grenfell Tower fire. Fire safety expert Professor Jose Torero argued that the LFB lacked the technica...
22 Okt 202127min
171 Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Paul Grimwood, a fire engineer at Kent Fire and Rescue Service, developed an alternative approach to firefighting in high rise buildings in 2008. The approach allowed incident commanders to assess whi...
15 Okt 202116min
170 London Fire Brigade: Week 3
This week we learned that a member of the London Fire Brigade’s Fire Safety Team wrote that giving advice on the risks of high rise cladding fires could be the ‘cat out of the bag on this issue’. The ...
8 Okt 202126min
169 The London Fire Brigade
The “uncontrolled spread of fire across the outside of tall buildings is a significant threat”. The inquiry revealed that weeks before the fire at Grenfell Tower LFB staff wrote a presentation which w...
1 Okt 202131min
