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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast Episodes

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    30 Watch Manager O’Keeffe

    Firefighters run out of equipment and a rescue attempt on the 14th floor

  2. 3 Eleven Months On

    Cataloguing what's happened between the Grenfell fire and the start of the public inquiry

  3. 29 Crew Manager Christopher Secrett and Watch Manager Brien O’Keeffe

    Crew Manager Christopher Secrett describes how he doesn’t think he will make it out alive

  4. 28 Fire Safety Officer Egan, Crew Manager Secrett and Firefighter O’Hanlon

    Daniel Egan speaks to a mother trapped in the tower with her two children

  5. 27 Firefighter O’Beirne and Senior Fire Safety Officer Egan

    Daniel Egan explains why residents should have been evacuated from the tower earlier

  6. 26 Firefighters O’Beirne and Abell

    Firefighter Abell uses a ladder to help rescue two people trapped on the fifth floor

  7. 25 Firefighters Brown and Badillo

    Firefighter Badillo’s rescue attempt on the twentieth floor

  8. 24 The First Firefighters In Flat 16

    The first firefighters who tackled the fire in flat 16 give evidence

  9. 23 The first incident commander: Day 3

    The first firefighter to take charge at Grenfell continues his evidence

  10. 22 The first incident commander: Day 2

    The first firefighter to take charge at Grenfell continues his evidence

  11. 21 The First Incident Commander

    The first firefighter to take charge at Grenfell gives his evidence

  12. 204 The Phase 2 Report and the End of the Inquiry

    “Decades of failure”, “systematic dishonesty” and “incompetence”

  13. 203 The End of the Hearings

    “All the deaths were avoidable”

  14. 202 Nick Hurd

    "I can’t undo the past, but I wanted to be a part of making things better”

  15. 201 Expert toxicology evidence, and closing statements on the aftermath

    “They were failed before the fire, during the fire, and after the fire"

  16. 200 Closing Statements on testing and regulation

    “Crime, compound negligence and neglect across this industry”

  17. 20 The residents of flat 16

    Flat 16: the inquiry hears evidence from the residents of the flat where the fire started

  18. 2 Holborn Bars

    A guide to the inquiry rooms and advice from a former chair of a public inquiry

  19. 199 Expert Witnesses: Week 2

    “Foolish, irresponsible and a missed opportunity”

  20. 198 Expert Witnesses

    “Most shocking experiments I have ever witnessed"

  21. 197 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and the Mayor of London

    “Chaos and hyperactivity in the department”

  22. 196 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and London Local Authorities

    “More complex than 7/7”

  23. 195 Aftermath of the fire: The Rest Centres

    “2017 was a watershed year for emergencies in the UK”

  24. 194 Aftermath of the fire: The Council: Week 2

    “Caught in the eye of a terrible storm”

  25. 193 Aftermath of the fire: The Council and BSRs

    “Bigger than any authority could manage”

  26. 192 Aftermath of the fire

    “The system isn’t broken; it was built this way”

  27. 191 The Ministers: Week 2

    “I don’t find it surprising; I find it astounding”

  28. 190 Brian Martin and the Ministers

    “People looked for loopholes rather than a good solution”

  29. 19 Expert witnesses: Luke Bisby

    How did the fire spread from where it started in flat 16?

  30. 189 Brian Martin

    “It wasn’t a deliberate decision…simply didn’t think of it”

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