and quite extraordinary, listening to so much of what dany cotton had to so much of what dany cottony today. what is equally extraordinary is that this was her first day officially in the job as commissioner of the london fire brigade, that was the day of the fire. she had been acting in the role since january of last year, but this point about training is becoming central to the inquiry at this stage. dany cotton said there was no way the firefighters could have stopped that fire, no way they could have been trained to cope with something like that. it was put to her that in fact the chance of this sort of fire was very much on the radar of the fire brigade. in 2014, operational guidance nationally was released following previous fires that said that firefighters should ta ke that said that firefighters should take account of the construction of buildings to see if that would have an effect on the fire. dany cotton said she had read that guidance since the fire but not before. in march 2014 there was a meeting of the london fire brigade to consider what happened in the previous fire

but dany cotton said it did not result in new training for firefighters.p a training package for a spot of land on the shard, you know, we would respond to it and deal with it in the same professional manner we do. that is an incident of that scale. so i wouldn't expect us to be developing training as a response to something that simply shouldn't happen. but it did. if firefighters had known the cladding was fuelling the flames, they might have considered getting the residents out earlier, rather than telling them to stay put. but the commissioner said an evacuation could equally have resulted in deaths. her evidence has not reassured some survivors of the fire. she spoke a lot about consoling and pep—talking, and putting her arms around people that are devastated. of course they're devastated, because you've just sent them in to risk their lives without adequate training. so you have a duty of care to them, but you also have a duty of care to residents that live in tower blocks. what isn't in doubt is that firefighters willingly risked their lives to save

dany cotton has been giving her dramatic testimony to the inquiry in to the disaster this morning.aid it could not have been extinguished even if crews had had specific training in blazes involving cladding — and said she feared some of the firefighters going into the building would not survive. our correspondent sophie long reports. this is the first appearance of dany cotton at the inquiry into the fire that claimed the lives of 72 people. as commissioner of the london fire brigade, she was ultimately responsible for the operation to bring the blaze under control. in a written statement, she said... today she told the inquiry there were many aspects of the fire that were unprecedented. complete failure of the building, the ability of the fire to travel across the external face of the building, through the building, reach all the compartments, to travel across central communal parts and areas, for the fire to spread as rapidly as it did, for it to involve as many people... i could go on forever. what happened that night that building would have been deemed to have been a completel

dany cotton said she hadn‘t been given any specific training on the spread of fire in cladding on a highilding. she also told the hearing that many aspects of the fire were unprecedented. we can speak to our news correspondent lisa hampele. as news of what she says filters through you get a real sense of her horror as she arrived at the scene. absolutely. she had been a firefighter since the age of 18 and she had been in thisjob as firefighter since the age of 18 and she had been in this job as the firefighter since the age of 18 and she had been in thisjob as the head of london fire brigade forjust six months. she got a call atjust after 2am in the morning from somebody was normally very calm but this person was not come this time. she raced there and got to the fire at 2:30am before the decision was made that people should be staying there. as she arrived she saw the flames in the distance and she said it was like a horror movie. she said that when she got there she touched some of the firefighters because she was not sure they would be able to get out of the building. we have heard he

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