is seen as a job for men, and that as Fireman Sam is seen by children from an early age, the name reinforces this stereotype. On 20 June 2019, she announced she would retire in April 2020 after serving 32 years (two years longer than a normal firefighter's service) from the London Fire Brigade. In October 2019 the retired high court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who led the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, was critical of Cotton's "remarkable insensitivity" for stating in her evidence that she would not change anything the London Fire Brigade did on the night of the Grenfell fire. His report demonstrated "the LFB is an institution at risk of not learning the lessons of the Grenfell Tower fire". Survivors and bereaved welcomed Moore-Bick's comments in the first of his two reports. On Sunday 3 November 2019, The Sunday Times reported that Dany Cotton rejected the findings of the Moore-Bick inquiry into the Grenfell fire, calling them a 'stitch up'. The paper reported that her comments had angered survivors. Following public criticism from survivors and families of victims of the Grenfell tower fire, Cotton announced 6 December 2019 that she had brought forward her date of retirement to the end of December 2019. Her replacement from 1 January 2020 was Deputy Commissioner Andrew Roe. Cotton gave evidence to the Grenfell Inquiry for a second time in November 2020. Honours and awards In 2002, Cotton was named Outstanding Public Servant of the year. In the 2004 New Year Honours, Cotton became the first woman to be awarded the Queen's Fire Service Medal, given "for distinguished service." On 30 October 2008, she was awarded the Fire Brigade Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. In 2010, she was named by The Independent as one of "100 women who changed the world". In 2014, she won the Public Service Category of the First Women Awards. See also London Fire Brigade Chief Fire Officer London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority Chief Fire Officers Association References External links Dany Cotton interview Channel 4 News 11 July 2017 Inverview with Nick Ferrari on LBC Reuters Dany Cotton (6 March 2010): Chipping away at old stereotypes about women firefighters Living people Women in firefighting London Fire Brigade personnel 1969 births Place of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Queen's Fire Service Medal