I sat down with Chris Yates and Christina Kebbell at the Fire Safety Event.
Chris runs FETA: the federation the Smoke Control Association sits inside.
Christina co-founded LINK Smoke Control. Her team fit and maintain smoke control systems.
Trade body and coalface, same table.
No press office in the room. No pre-registered questions. You don’t often hear someone in Chris’s chair talk like this.
Out Monday 27th July, 6pm
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