Grenfell blaze behaved in way I did not expect, says fire commander

Michael Dowden: above 50 metres ‘water supply would be almost non-existent’.The fire brigade commander in charge of the initial response to the Grenfell Tower disaster has admitted he was out of his comfort zone and that he was “consumed by sensory overload” as he saw the fire rage out of control.Michael Dowden, a firefighter for 14 years and watch manager at North Kensington fire station in west London, told the public inquiry he could not understand why the facade of th