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Photos by Aishling Conway

Ambulance staff who tried to save man from Naas ambulance fire are set back for work

Heroic ambulance workers attempting to save an elderly man from a burning ambulance in Naas are set to return to work, several months after a pensioner lost his life in the blaze.

Suncroft native, Christopher Byrne, a 78-year-old man, was in the ambulance outside Naas A&E, when it set fire, last September. Mr Byrne died in the fire. Medics David Finnegan and Stephen Lloyd were injured trying to save him from the blaze.

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