Specialist firefighters 'could have saved lives' but were not sent to Manchester Arena bomb, public inquiry told
direct to your inboxSpecialist response fire crews carrying advanced medical equipment were not sent to Manchester Arena after the bombing, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.One senior Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service firefighter said frustration among colleagues on the ground at the time 'was the worst I had ever seen at an incident'.Jon Nolan, then a watch manager and the head of one of two Specialist Response Teams (SRTs), said it was the first time his team had 'trained to do something, but had not been allowed to do it through a procedure that had failed, or felt like it had failed'.The public inquiry has heard the first fire engine did not arrive at the Arena until two hours after the explosion, which killed 22