What colour was the smoke‪?‬

As a young man with a family to keep I did time in the Fire Service. I'm glad I did. Reaching one hundred per cent physical limits and seeing the things I did has given me a level to measure later happenings in my life.

At the end of the Muslim religious fast of Ramadan during the night of 13/14 June 2017, a blaze took hold of a twenty three storey block called Grenfell Tower in Notting Dale, West London. The block was social housing, home for people from many troubled countries.

Grenfell Tower was built in the neighbourhood I grew up in. Seeing those streets and people on the television news I was transfixed. A Public Inquiry was set up by Teresa May’s Government to determine the cause of the unprecedented nature of the fire spread and the high mortality. What follows is my track as I followed the Inquiry live on youtube.