A report into Greater Manchester Fire Service's ability to respond to terror attacks comes seven years after the arena bombing
Seven years on from Greater Manchester’s darkest hour, the city’s fire service is ‘the best prepared in the UK’ for a terrorist attack.
“The guarantee I can give is that we have a fire service that’s prepared, it’s capable of responding, it will intervene, and it will do so in a way to maximise saveable life.” “What we set upon was a really extensive and robust training programme, not training in isolation but with Greater Manchester Police and North West Ambulance Service. What we have today is the capability to respond to a known attack but also, as we have seen across the UK, the capability of what might be a rising tide event — where we’ve been mobilised to a road traffic collision and that transpires to be something other than that.
A report into how authorities handled the Arena Bombing found firefighters, who could have helped with the removal of casualties from the blast zone, eventually arrived at the explosion site two hours after the explosion after being held back by their own commanders. Overall, inspectors found GMFRS was ‘good at understanding the risk of fire and other emergencies’, in its probe last autumn. They also found ‘it considers a wide range of learning to support its ability to do so… the Manchester Arena Inquiry report, with the service making improvements, such as the introduction of its new terrorist response capability’.
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