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Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast with me, Kate Lamble.

This week we heard some frank admissions from the current head at the London Fire Brigade.

I think every single major institution that should have kept those, you know, survivors that bereaved,

the people who lived in the Tower safe, let the families down.

It was the most appalling example of institutional failure,

I think, in recent British history, and we were part of that as well.

Andy Roe became the LFB's commissioner last year.

At the time with the Grenfell Tower fire, he was an

assistant commissioner. Andy Roe arrived on the scene at 244 in the morning and took over as

incident commander. Shortly afterwards, he ordered that every resident should be told to get out

of the building. You can hear Andy Row's evidence about what happened that night in episode 63 and

64 of this podcast. This time, Andy

Roe also accepted the LFB were aware of every element of the Grenfell Tower of fire before it

happened, things like the risks of cladding and compartmentation failure. The organisation just

didn't join that knowledge up together. I'll go into all of that in more detail in just a second,

but first I just want to touch on another issue,

allegations of racism and misogyny within the London Fire Brigade.

In the first opening statements of the inquiry,

all the way back in June 2018,

Imran Khan, a lawyer representing some of the breathed survivors and residents,

highlighted some of the language used in firefighters' written witness statements

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