170 London Fire Brigade: Week 3
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This week we learned that a member of the London Fire Brigade’s Fire Safety Team wrote that giving advice on the risks of high rise cladding fires could be the ‘cat out of the bag on this issue’. The inquiry also heard evidence from the LFB’s former director of operations. Dan Brown said that at the time of the Grenfell Tower fire more than 5,000 high rise buildings were not present on the brigade’s operational risk database.
Presenter / Producer: Kate Lamble
Producer: Sharon Hemans
Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou
Studio Mix: Gareth Jones
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