Video 4

An interview with Barry Jones, Divisional Officer, Greater Manchester Fire Service

Okay, my name is Barry Jones, I’m a Divisional Officer with Greater Manchester Fire Service.

I was here when the actual fire occurred or when we were first called out to the fire. Initially we got the call at 2 minutes past 3, the fire engines were here within minutes. Three fire engines to start off with. The fire soon broke through the roof and we had to make pumps 8 and then subsequently from that we made pumps 12, so we had 90 fire fighters on the scene. We also had what we call four ‘aerial appliances’ attacking the fire from the roof, from the top of the roof down inwards to get on top of the fire.

We are now undertaking a full fire investigation to try and establish what actually caused this particular fire.