Every time the bells go I pray it’s not a high-rise fire. Because there’a a real chance it’s wrapped in flammable material
Five years ago today we got the call to the fire that changed my life.
As we raced out of North Kensington fire station, we did not know the scale of the fire, and far less how big it would become. We were going towards a part of my neighbourhood that I knew well, and I desperately hoped that the people in that building would not be harmed. I was the first firefighter into Grenfell Tower. I witnessed the true horrors of that night and I continue to see them in my nightmares.
Dave Badillo is a firefighter at North Kensington fire station
