Grenfell inquiry: London fire brigade’s water ‘could have reached top floor’

Firefighting equipment was ready that might have made the difference', inquiry hears

The London fire brigade did not know how to properly deploy water equipment that could have doused flames all the way to the top of Grenfell tower and potentially saved lives, the inquiry into the disaster has heard.

In what a lawyer for bereaved people and survivors said was an extraordinary possibility to have to contemplate four years after the fire", an expert witness has found that water from a ground monitor - a nozzle on a fixed base - beside the tower was capable of reaching the 15th floor and that all the available aerial pumps were capable of launching water to the top of the building.