"What are you doing stood around?" Distraught paramedic pleaded with firefighters to help Arena bomb victims
direct to your inboxA 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.And a former senior firefighter, now retired, described the delayed response by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service as 'the lowest point of my career'.Alan Topping, a station manager who was also a command support officer on the night, said 'angry and frustrated' firefighters were desperate to deploy to the Arena, but 'decisions were being made elsewhere'.