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Hello, I'm Eddie Mayer and this is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, reporting every day the inquiry sits.

The inquiry heard from two witnesses today.

One of them, Natasha Elcock, made 14 calls to 999, while she was trapped in her flat on the 11th floor.

Firefighters didn't reach her and her family until 4.30 in the morning. Natasha Elcock lived in flat 82 with her partner

Anthony Smith and her three children. She'd been a resident of Grenfell for around 20 years.

On the night of the fire, two of her children were out. Natasha was woken by the

sign of sirens. She told the inquiry she wasn't unduly bothered. But when she heard voices

outside the flat, she opened the front door to investigate. Two of her neighbours, Ali Yawar Jafari,

and one of his daughters from Flat 86, were in the lobby. They said they were smoke in

their flat. Natasha told them to leave. They looked worried. That's the only thing I can tell them to do

because if you're worried, then leave. But I wasn't sure, as I say, it was complete confusion. I

weren't sure what was going on, you know, but it was just them saying, oh, smoke, smoke.

And that was kind of how they were saying it to me.

There wasn't no description, there's fire in my flat or anything like that.

Natasha Elcock could see a small amount of white smoke around the doorway of the Jafari family's flat, but there was no smoke in her flat.

She and Anthony looked out their living room window and could see a fire had broken

out below them. She made her first call to 999 at 128. Counsel to the inquiry, Bill Al-Rabat,

read from a transcript of the call. I'll let the crews know where you are, okay. Did you take

anything from that? I suppose, you know, naturally you call the fire brigade for me.

I know they're there. I'm telling you where I am. I await your instructions.

Natasha got dressed and woke her daughter. She looked out the window and could see one of her

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