(BBC) The delay in getting firefighters to the scene of the Manchester Arena attack was “wholly unacceptable,” an inquiry into the bombing has heard.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) area manager Ben Levy agreed the response to the bombing was “neither adequate nor effective.”
The Manchester Arena inquiry has heard firefighters arrived on scene more than two hours after the attack.
Senior officers have said crews were held back because [of] safety fears.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device in the arena’s foyer on 22 May 2017.
