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Grenfell inquiry: Better communication between councils and fire services needed

‘Far better direct communication’ between local authorities and fire and rescue services is needed, an official inquiry has urged.

‘Far better direct communication' between local authorities and fire and rescue services is needed, an official inquiry has urged.

In a report focusing on events on the night of the Grenfell Tower blaze, chairman of the public inquiry into the disaster, Martin Moore-Bick, criticised the length of time it took Kensington & Chelsea LBC (RBKC) to obtain a ‘vital' dangerous structures engineer (DSE) amid fears the building might collapse at any moment.

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