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'Fizzing' firefighters turned their backs on senior manager over two-hour delay in getting them to the Manchester Arena bombing

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Furious firefighters turned their backs on a senior manager when he came to talk to them about the two-hour delay in getting them to the Manchester Arena bombing.

A team of just 12 regular firefighters - the number that would be deployed to a house fire - was sent to the arena, arriving at the scene at 39 minutes past midnight, more than two hours after the May 2017 explosion.

Specialist crews, trained to work in blast zones, were kept back. As Greater Manchester Police offered an 'unreserved apology' for communications failures on the night of the attack, the public inquiry into the atrocity heard today (Thursday) how assistant chief fire officer Geoff Harris

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