(BBC) Fire crews should have gone straight to the Manchester Arena bombing scene rather than a rendezvous point three miles away, a public inquiry has heard.
In a debrief, crew manager Nicholas Mottram urged Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS) bosses to “stop being so risk-averse.”
Firefighters joined the service to save lives “not stand back and let people suffer or die,” he added.
It took two hours for the first fire engine to reach the arena.
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.
