Grenfell victim hung up so mum wouldn’t hear her die
A TERRIFIED daughter trapped in the Grenfell Tower fire ended a final phone call with her mother so she would not hear her screaming as she died, an inquiry heard.
Emanuela Disaro received a series of calls from her daughter, Gloria Trevisan, who was trapped on the top floor of the high-rise with her boyfriend Marco Gottardi, 27.
As the blaze worsened, the 26-year-old architect went through “panic, terror, concern, awareness and then resignation” as she realised fire crews had “stopped trying to go up”, her mother said.
Her last phone call came at 3.45am and lasted for 22 minutes, Ms Disaro said.
In a written statement to the public inquiry into the blaze, Ms Disaro said: “I realised at this point that there was no hope. Gloria told me, ‘I’m throwing myself out of the window, I swear to you the fire is here, it’s in the sitting room, the fire is everywhere, we’re just waiting.
‘I don’t believe it’s ending like this. I don’t want to believe it’.”
She added: “At a certain point she told me fire was coming through the window. She wanted to stop the call. I said, ‘No, I don’t want you to, I want you to pass me Marco.’
“Gloria said, ‘Marco is on the phone with his dad’, I told her I felt powerless. She said she couldn’t breathe. She told me again what she felt for us, that we have to say goodbye and we had to be strong.
“At that point Gloria said she was cutting off the phone because she didn’t want me to hear anything and she said goodbye to us.
“She wanted to cut off the phone because she didn’t want me to hear Gloria and Marco arrived from Italy four months earlier
her scream. She said she just wanted to faint so she wouldn’t feel anything and said, ‘I just want to stay with Marco now’.”
Gloria and Marco came to England from Italy in March 2017, moving into Grenfell the next month.
They were among 72 who died because of the fire on June 14 last year. The couple had tried to escape Loving mother... Emanuela with tragic daughter Gloria
via the roof but were blocked by a locked gate, Ms Disaro said.
She said: “In this day and age, I don’t understand how Gloria and Marco couldn’t have got out of the building in the hour-and-a-half they had from when they were woken.”
Gloria’s father, Loris Trevisan, agreed that “there was enough time to get out”. Mr Trevisan said he
considered suicide when he saw the burning tower on television.
He said: “I was devastated. I wanted to die. If I had a gun I would have killed myself.”
Gloria’s body was flown home to Italy on July 18, with the funeral taking place the next day.
Her father added: “My life stopped there. I do not live anymore.”