DRUNK man has been hailed an unlikely hero in the Grenfell fire tragedy: pressing wrong elevator button discovered the blaze

DRUNK man has been hailed as an unlikely hero in the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy — after he discovered the blaze by pressing the wrong elevator button

Resident Miguel Alves, who was just getting home from work and lived on the 13th floor, got in the elevator with a “drunk man” about 1am, an hour after the fire started.

Miguel told friends the man randomly hit the number ‘4’ by accident, the level where the inferno took hold, reportedly from an exploding fridge.

When the elevator doors opened the two men became aware of the fire after smoke clouded the lift.

Miguel rushed up to his floor and woke his wife Fatima, daughter Ines, 16, and son Tiago, and guided them quickly to safety.

He then circled the building desperately banging on the doors of his neighbours and urging them to leave…

Source: London Grenfell Tower fire: Heroes, survivors and missing people emerge

Manchester bomb disposal experts responding to a call to Hulme college. Nearby streets have been closed

MANCHESTER Police say army bomb disposal experts are responding to a call to a Hulme college. Nearby streets have been closed and helicopters are flying overhead.

Local media is reporting up to 10 vehicles filled with armed police entering Linby St in Hulme, in the vicinity of Castlefield Campus – a school for students with ‘social, emotional and mental health difficulties’.

Police are ‘assessing the situation’ and are as yet uncertain if the incident is linked to the Manchester arena bombing.

MORE ARRESTS AS MOTIVE EMERGES

The sister of the Manchester bomber has revealed he called his mother before detonating the explosive. She knows his motive.

Police today arrested two men in the Manchester area in connection with the deadly bombing of a pop concert, while a detained woman was released without charges.

The new arrests bring to eight the total number of men being held in the probe of the attack that killed 22 people.

The new arrests come after the sister of the Manchester suicide bomber has revealed he made a phone call to his mother just moments before detonating the nail-packed explosive.

And she believes she knows the brutal killer’s motive.

Jomana Abedi, 18, described her older brother Salman as kind and loving, and said she’s shocked that he detonated a bomb in the foyer of Manchester Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande pop concert on Monday.

However in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, she said she suspected his motive was driven by what he saw as Western injustices in the Middle East.

“I think he saw children—Muslim children—dying everywhere, and wanted revenge,” she told the newspaper.

“He saw the explosives America drops on children in Syria, and he wanted revenge. Whether he got that is between him and God.”

MORE HERE: Manchester Ariana Grande concert attack investigation arrests | Perth Now

NSW flood victims tell of damage, trauma

Days after being forced from her flooding Lismore home, a traumatised Christine Devine ended up in hospital after collapsing on her friend’s floor.

“I just couldn’t move and I was shaking,” Ms Devine told AAP after returning to her house to assess the damage.

“It (her emotions) just exploded like a volcano.”

The SES gave Lismore residents the all-clear to return to homes and businesses in the town’s CBD, north and south on Sunday afternoon.

Mayor Isaac Smith described the town as akin to a war zone and the Rural Fire Service has set up a base camp for hundreds of workers to help with the clean up nearby.

Water came close to entering the second storey of Ms Devine’s home after ex-cyclone Debbie soaked northern NSW.

Furniture is upturned and gardens are in complete disarray at the house, which Ms Devine had been turning into a massage, healing and wellness “sanctuary”.

The road to Murwillumbah in the north is littered with washed away cars and debris from landslides.

Towers of rubbish line Murwillumbah’s streets.

Source: NSW flood victims tell of damage, trauma | Perth Now