(BBC) A fire officer has told an inquiry he “felt ashamed to be a firefighter” after being held back from responding to the Manchester Arena bombing.
The first fire engine did not arrive at the scene until two hours after the explosion that killed 22 people.
Duty command officer Alan Topping said firefighters were “angry” they were not able to help in the aftermath of the attack.
He said crews felt they “let the people of Greater Manchester down.”
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
