Neighbours died ‘as they waited for copter rescue’
GRENFELL residents died in their flats after apparently being told to wait for a helicopter rescue, it was claimed last night.
Up to 40 people were allegedly told to look for help from the roof as the tower burned around them.
The claims were made by a woman saved by her son who hoisted her on to his shoulders to run down through the smoke. Flora Neda, 55, said: “Thirty-five or 40 people came up and they said the fire brigade told us you have to go up and we send for you helicopter rescue.
“One of the Iranian ladies [who took refuge in her flat] spoke to her [own] son, who said that he wanted to come take her away. She replied that this was not necessary as the helicopter was coming to take them away.”
Flora’s son, engineering graduate Farhad Neda, 24, told how he trampled over bodies as they ran to safety. Farhad’s father Saber, 57, died from injuries consistent with falling. His family believe he jumped so he would not burn to death.