(BBC) A fire service was reluctant to take risks when responding to the Manchester Arena bombing, an independent expert has told the inquiry into the atrocity.
Various failures meant it took firefighters more than two hours to get to the scene of the 2017 attack.
Fire and rescue expert Matthew Hall described Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service as “risk averse” rather than “risk aware.”
However, he did not criticise the actions of individual firefighters.
Twenty-two people died and hundreds more were injured when bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device in the arena’s foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017.
