London fire brigade did not know how to properly deploy
water equipment that could have doused flames all the way to the top of
Grenfell tower and potentially saved lives. In what a lawyer for bereaved
people and survivors said was “an extraordinary possibility to have to
contemplate four years after the fire”, an expert witness has found that water
from a ground monitor – a nozzle on a fixed base – beside the tower was capable
of reaching the 15th floor and that all the available aerial pumps were capable
of launching water to the top of the building. But neither happened “because of
a fundamental misunderstanding of the technical features of water supply,” said
Danny Friedman QC. Read more on the Guardian website.
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