Two Limerick-based HSE paramedics, David Coughlan and Michael Marrinan, are being hailed as heroes after rescuing a man from a burning apartment in Foynes village. The paramedics were traveling through the village when they noticed thick black smoke billowing from a second-floor apartment. They quickly sprang into action, evacuating both men from the burning building.
Two Limerick -based HSE paramedics have been hailed as “heroes” after they saved a man from a burning apartment in the county.
“It was just sheer luck that we were just at the right place at the right time, we were travelling through the village, we looked up and saw the flames inside the window and we knew we had to help,” explained Mr Coughlan, who is a paramedic supervisor based at the Mid West Ambulance Base in Limerick City.
The two Limerick-based paramedics also evacuated staff from a pharmacy located on the ground floor of the apartment complex. “The smoke was just toxic, black smoke coming up out of there, it was lethal black smoke coming out,” said paramedic Marrinan, who previously worked as a firefighter in his native Ennis.
“I would be just paranoid from the old days in the fire service that, people in a burning building tend to fall behind a door or something like that, and you couldn't live with yourself if you thought there was someone two feet inside the door, that kind of thing,” said Mr Marrinan. His colleague was just as modest in reply: “You couldn’t go home at night in peace if you were passing and didn't stop and do the bare minimum, and make sure the place was safe, and make sure everyone was out, and get whatever information we could to pass onto the appropriate services when they arrived.”
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