A brave off-duty engineer risked his life by going into the blazing Grenfell Tower to shut off the gas supply that was fuelling the inferno.
Hero Jason Allday heard about the fire from an early morning news report.
He was not due to work that day but he raced to the tower in West London and arrived at 7.20am.
Firefighters were still battling the fierce blaze , which started at 1am and killed 72 people.
Jason and Patrick Kelley, a fellow employee at gas supply firm Cadent, entered the burning 24-floor tower with three firefighters using riot shields to protect them from falling debris.
Unable to switch off the gas in the basement, they worked in the surrounding roads – which were also a danger area – to stop the supply.
The flames died down immediately.
Jason, who stayed on site for 24 hours, was named in inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report published this week.
He and his team were praised for “doing an excellent job”.
He said yesterday: “It’s the job you hope you never have to do, but I just did what I needed to.
"I still think about that day. I’ve been touched by the positive reaction about the role I played.”
A spokeswoman for Cadent said: “We are all very proud of him and the others who raced to this tragic incident.”
The inquiry is due to last two years. The next phase will examine the wider circumstances of the June 2017 disaster.
