Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi had only been in London for three months and were living on the 23rd floor of the tower
Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi phoned home before the devastating inferno engulfed their flat (Photo: glo_trevi/Instagram)
A young Italian couple caught up in the Grenfell Tower tragedy made heartbreaking phone calls to their families in Italy as flames engulfed their 23rd floor flat.
Engaged Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi, both 27, spent their final moments telling their parents they loved them.
In a heart-rending call, Gloria told her mum: "Thank you for what you have done for me."
Marco courageously attempted to play down his fears but the lovers eventually told their distraught relatives they could see the blaze raging up the stairs.
The pair, who had only been in London for three months from Venice, were living on the 23rd floor of the tower and Gloria was due to return to Italy just days ago.
Marco’s father, Giannino, said he called his son when he heard about the fire.
Family have made hundreds of calls to Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi but to no avail (Photo: Facebook)
He said: “He played down the incident, I think to reassure us.
"At the last contact, he informed us that their apartment was flooded by smoke and that the situation was an emergency. Then nothing.”
Gloria called her family at 3am saying a fire had broken out and she and her fiancé were waiting for help.
Her grieving dad told Italian newspaper Il Mattino di Padova: “They wanted to go down but said they could see flames going up the stairs and the smoke was more and more intense.”
Moments after she rang the phone line cut out and her father said he made hundreds of calls to this daughter after that but to no avail.
Marco called his family twice at 3:45am and again just over 15 minutes later.
In a heart-rending call, Gloria told her mum (pictured): 'Thank you for what you have done for me' (Photo: glo_trevi/Instagram)
The view from their flat on the 23rd floor of the Grenfell Tower (Photo: glo_trevi/Instagram)
“He was trying to minimise what happened, probably not to unsettle us.
“But in the second call – and I can’t get this out of my head – he said there was smoke, that so much smoke was rising.
“We were on the phone until the last moment … At 4.07am he told us their apartment was flooded with smoke and that the situation had become an emergency.
“The communications broke down and from that moment on we no longer had any contact. The phone didn’t pick up again.”