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Our volunteers supported those who lost everything in the Barking fire, sadly, even their pets
When a fire broke out in a six-storey block of flats in De Pass Gardens, Barking, in June 2019, Russell was deployed as a community reserve volunteer alongside the British Red Cross response. “It happened just over a mile from…