Grenfell tower blaze: Hospitals prepared for deadly poison cases
Foam in old furniture can give off toxic gas and kits were ready and waiting before patients caught up in the inferno arrived at hospital.
Dr Malcolm Tunnicliff, the clinical director for emergency and acute care at King's College Hospital in south London, dealt with 12 casualties from the fire which killed at least a dozen people and injured scores more in the early hours of Wednesday.
He said: “We knew in advance that it was a fire in an enclosed space so we also knew there was a real risk of cyanide poisoning from foam in older furniture burning.