He added in a comment underneath: “She came in with loads of cakes […] lovely girl, genuinely grounded and interested and humbled. Beautiful.”

The BBC reports station manager Ben King as saying: “She just turned up at the station and knocked on the window and said she has some cakes for us.

“So we opened the door to her and then she took her sunglasses off and said, ‘Hi, I'm Adele’. Everyone was so shocked. She came in, came up to the mess and had a cup of tea with the watch and then she joined us for the minute’s silence.”

Further information about some of the absolute horrors firefighters faced has come out in the days since the 14 June fire, with one blog post from a firefighter describing the distressing night going viral.

Petty, who shared the Adele pictures, also wrote a status about the “worst night” of his career, revealing how affected he and his colleagues had been.

Adele surprises Grenfell firefighters with cake and cuddles