BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Hello, I'm Eddie Mayor, and this is the Grenfell Tower

Inquiry podcast, reporting every day the inquiry sits. Today, the inquiry heard more about

what happened on the 18th floor, where two families were told to stay in their flats by firefighters

after two in the morning. An hour later they tried to escape down the staircase.

Paolo's Teckley was not a tenant at Grenville Tower,

but he visited his partner, Genet Chowowah, and their two children,

who lived in flat 153 on the 18th floor most days.

On the evening of the 13th of June 2017,

he was looking after their two sons.

Just before 1.30, Paoloz Teckley was woken by a noise outside.

There were a panicking voice, can I put that way? I don't know what they said, but something like that. It sounds like it's not normal. It's not normal.

There must be some problem.

In the lobby, the lights were out.

It was dark.

There they met their next-door neighbour, Rabiayaya, who lived in flat 152.

She told them there was a fire in the building.

Pylos Teckley and his partner, Gennettawu, started to call friends who lived elsewhere in the building.

Around 1.34, he spoke to Abraham Abbey, who lived on the seventh floor.

In answer to questions from counsel to the inquiry, Bill Al-Rawat,

Paolos Teckley said he told his friend to wake up his family and take action.

Obviously, when I say to take action,

it means to find out what is going on,

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