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A Clare paramedic and his colleague from Cork have been hailed as “heroes” after they saved a man from a burning apartment in Limerick. Michael Marrinan, Ennis, and, David Coughlan, Charleville were travelling in their HSE ambulance through Foynes village last Wednesday, 18 September, when they observed thick black smoke billowing out of a second floor apartment on the Main Street. When they went to investigate they discovered two men in two apartments located above a pharmacy shop. One of the men was in a distressed state in his apartment which was ablaze. “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, Limerick City. They quickly brought one of the men to safety, but …
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