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Matt Wrack

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Gender Male
Age 61
Date of birth May 23,1962
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Manchester
United Kingdom
BooksWhose Money is it Anyway? The Case for Democratising the Trade Union Political Funds
Job Firefighter
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Matthew D. Wrack is a British trade unionist and former firefighter. He was elected General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union in May 2005.

UK unready as wildfires surge, warns firefighters' union

UK unready as wildfires surge, warns firefighters' union
Sep 28,2023 11:21 pm

... Matt Wrack, the FBU s general secretary, said: " We need urgent climate action...

Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge faces legal challenge over fire safety

Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge faces legal challenge over fire safety
Aug 28,2023 12:50 am

... Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the FBU, said the union had moved towards a legal challenge after spending weeks trying to raise concerns with the government...

London wildfire response hit by crew shortages - report

London wildfire response hit by crew shortages - report
Jul 10,2023 9:30 am

... " But Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), said firefighters were not being given " adequate resources...

Grenfell Tower: Community considers future of building six years on

Grenfell Tower: Community considers future of building six years on
Jun 14,2023 2:40 am

... " Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: " Six years on and the community is still waiting for answers...

Wildfires: UK to set up new Mediterranean-style specialist units

Wildfires: UK to set up new Mediterranean-style specialist units
Jun 9,2023 4:40 am

... Matt Wrack, the Fire Brigades Union s general secretary, called for more funding from the government, saying: " Rising temperatures and the systematic underfunding of the fire and rescue service are a recipe for destruction...

Fire services: Shocking bullying and abuse widespread, report says

Fire services: Shocking bullying and abuse widespread, report says
Mar 30,2023 5:10 pm

... Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), welcomed the report s acknowledgement of " the scale of the problem" and promised the union would " take a leading role" in transforming its culture...

UK Firefighters' strike postponed as union votes over new pay offer

UK Firefighters' strike postponed as union votes over new pay offer
Feb 9,2023 1:11 am

... Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said the new pay offer was " testament to the power of collective action through the Fire Brigades Union"...

Grant Shapps unveils new powers in strike laws

Grant Shapps unveils new powers in strike laws
Jan 10,2023 1:51 pm

... Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack called the bill a " shameful attack" on democratic rights and key workers...

"We are trapped in the house our son killed'

Jan 5,2023 8:01 am

A prominent campaign Board is now in front of The House , where Zane Gbangbola was poisoned

If Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler moved in your house, on the banks of the River Thames in Surrey, it looked like the perfect place to raise A Family . Sixteen years later, it stands as a reminder to Zane , The Son she lost during her fight for the replies, goes on about what caused his death.

At 7. In February 2014, Mr Gbangbola spent the evening room to work up in his work, where he wrote the environmental protection Agency called for an urgent meeting on the effects of several weeks of flooding that had The Cellar of The House under the water.

Ms Lawler and Zane watched the winter Olympics opening ceremony, and later she wore her seven-year-old Son to bed. But not long after, Ms Lawler, who was acutely ill himself, found him unconscious, while his Father -who was left paralyzed critically ill in another room.

Zane was taken to a hospital, But later pronounced dead.

Ms Lawler has described how her Son died in her arms and as she held him "until his little Finger mine froze around".

the couple, who believe that the investigation in the death of her Son , came to the conclusion in September 2016, was in error. Zane 's death was attributed by The Coroner to carbon monoxide poisoning from a petrol-powered pump, which by the pair of clear, high water - But they are not in use.

you think of a former landfill site behind their Home in Chertsey was The Source of the hydrogen-cyanide gas, which was pushed upwards and out of the earth, by the "piston effect" of the swollen river, raising the water table underground, and it was the gas that killed Zane .

The Fire Department found high concentrations of hydrocyanic acid on the property, according to The Fire brigade Union (FBU), the "serious concerns" about how the investigation was carried out.

Still not able to sell The House , the couple, staying there, constantly reminded of The Absence of her Son .

has reached A petition for an independent panel inquiry, More Than 108,000 signatures

they moved into the four-bedroom house 10 Years earlier. Surrounded by meadows, meadows, The House , looked at the boats sailing on The River and the 18Th Century stone arches of Chertsey Bridge . It is also backed up to a field with a lake and grazing horses.

they were in the vicinity of London and the landscape of the well-to-do Surrey. The location seemed idyllic.

When the couple bought the property, she knew, it was believed, in a flood-risk area, But Mr Gbangbola, a European buildings, expert,, it was a risk which could be managed and insured.

Zane , born on 21. October 2006. When he was older, Ms Lawler - an environmental expert who worked on the London 2012 sustainability strategy was able to drop her Son at school, flying in the vicinity of Heathrow to visit the Netherlands, a business meeting and back Home , dinner and bed.

Zane would race on the boardwalk and explore Chertsey Meads, where he discovered a BMX track and an ACE on his bike was. Around The Corner Dumsey Meadow, to be at Home "wishing tree", to find where his mother hid treasures for him.

Zane 's parents (left) and activists gathered in Westminster at the beginning of this month,

If Mr Gbangbola and Ms Lawler bought The House , She Said , found no organic searches, that the area was behind it, a former landfill, and that this information only came to light after her Son had died.

they have in The Past Six Years , the information, which they say has not researched or will be taken to be known in the investigation, and the one you want, before an independent panel of enquiry to collect.

This includes the existence of a Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) military tank test facility, identified as a former industrial site.

A former Ministry of Defence (Mod ) engineer, the, asked, anonymous, to remain, has told the BBC he believes that the sub-contractors working for the tank research institution, the Five Miles from Home , used to dump waste chemicals into the local gravel pits, which is also behind Zane 's house.

He said these chemicals were coatings by products of anti-rust and anti-corrosion tank, and he claimed that they could produce cyanide. They'd been in barrels that rusted and corroded over The Years , so that the chemicals seep into the ground, he claims.

The BBC has agreed to protect his identity as a former Mod -worker, But did not check, therefore, able to the claims.

February 2014 saw 14 severe flood warnings on the Thames before The River burst its banks, the

recently, it emerged during a memorial service for Zane , to be held in The House of Lords that.

To this event, Manchester's Labour mayor Andy Burnham said: "I want The Truth about Zane . I don't think we have The Truth about what happened to this beautiful Little Boy .

"There are many authorities were involved," the former health Minister said. "Porton was Down involved. One of these come up in the investigation? No it's not. So, the whole story was not clearly told in the investigation, and it needs to be. "

In his report on the completion of the judicial inquiry, the preliminary investigation, Richard Travers, an expert said quoted, high concentrations of hydrocyanic acid were rare, and all in connection with the former gasworks, while a Council officer said there had been dirt, there are no significant environmental incidents on The Land behind Zane 's house since the 1950s.

But another report, according to The Coroner did confirm that the illegal tipping could have taken place, and another expert, geo-ecologist Gavin Roberts, told the inquest it was possible the high-water had been held back, triggered a one-time discharge of Hydrogen Cyanide and wore it in The Basement of The House .

The view is not in the area of military and defence history.

In December, the FBU General Secretary , Matt Wrack , wrote The Family : "Our members took on that fateful day in the year 2014 and found Hydrogen Cyanide in your Home . "

He said there were "worrying gaps in The Evidence ", and added: "The unregulated landfill seems to have adjacent to your house, released the nerve gas and it must now be an independent investigation, so that these can be considered, and those responsible must be held accountable. "

demonstrators have spent years, for an investigation into Zane 's death

Ann boaters grew up in The House by the Thames, which was sold by her mother, Jocelyn, Mr Gbangbola and Ms Lawler in 2004.

she remembers A Childhood , the Hiking included, over fields, and wading through the water in rubber boots when the water rose.

The Garden and The Cellar of The House would be flooded from time to time, she recalls, But it is always only you took the labels off the wine bottles stored there, and it never reached her mother, Jocelyn sought-after parquet floor.

"It was never anything other than exciting," She Said . "It was a worry for My Mother , But it was a lot of that was very nice To Live there. "

she described how what was a gravel pit in The Field behind the property was later as a rubbish dump and was unregulated for a time, before it deteriorates, in the a thorn in the eye. For a time, "anybody can throw everything in there," She Said .

Ann boat driver remembers The House will be "much higher" than the flow in the vicinity of Chertsey Bridge

"There were rusty old mattresses, and we clashed on it," She Said . "But then there was a time when it was a thorn in the flesh, we do not want to go there at all. "

Finally pour the trash heap and forget, she remembers.

and Now a member of the Green Party , stood as a Council candidate in Islington, Ms boat driver called has to be checked for the country properly. "If something happens, we need to know that it will happen again," She Said .

Zane 's parents have a range of evidence, they say, gathered has not been studied in the investigation of

Six Years after the floods, The House on The River , now stands as a reminder of what happened, The Boy who lived there. It is a campaign Board at The Front of the property, while in The Garden there is a child's play house and a football.

Zane 's parents a year after his death, had to stay out of their Home , during the investigations that took place there. Mr Gbangbola said that after the devastation suffered by The Family , it was kind of shocking, The House is unchanged.

"The House was completely normal," he said. "The only thing that was removed, and Zane To Live , so The Desire was gone. "

By the time The House , Zane 's odor had said, you and your partner back out of his room and his clothes, Ms Lawler.

"There is no heart, or voice, or laughter, no more hammering. It is not the same. "



river thames, floods, long reads, chertsey, inquests

Source of news: bbc.com

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