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What are you doing stood around? Distraught paramedic pleaded with firefighters to help Arena bomb victims
A former senior firefighter, now retired, described the delayed response by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service as the lowest point of my career . Paul Britton reports on an emotive day of evidence at the Arena bomb inquiry.
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Firefighters arrive at the scene (Image: Arena Inquiry)
A tearful paramedic, around two hours after the Manchester Arena bombing, pleaded with firefighters to get to the scene, telling them: I have just taken an 18-year-old girl in the back of my ambulance who died en route to hospital, and you lot are just stood around, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.
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Fire service argued over where to meet others before deploying, inquiry was told
Images were shown to the inquiry of makeshift stretchers that police, first aid staff and rail employees used to help transport the badly injured in the meantime
The last was removed 54 minutes before fire service arrived, the inquiry was told
Inquiry also heard that for an hour, police believed there might be an accomplice
Inspector Dale Sexton, force duty officer, was told of Asian male with rucksack
Firearms officer told him there was a second male in company with the bomber