A lorry driver is being hailed as a hero for saving a life when he reversed his truck up to a burning building so that a man trapped inside could jump to safety.
Tomasz Zareba was on his daily delivery round on Monday when he intervened as a man sought to escape a building which had caught fire on Granby Row in Dublin’s north inner city. Reversing the truck up to the building allowed the man to jump from a window into the vehicle.
The Polish driver then continued to finish his deliveries for the Eurospar chain.
Zareba told the Irish Mirror he acted it because he thought it “would be much safer” for the man in the burning building. He is being hailed as a hero online for his intervention.
“I just thought it would be much safer for him to jump on the lorry instead of the footpath. I saw the smoke coming from the window because my next delivery was just around the corner,” he told the Irish Mirror.
He added: “I saw the flames coming up from the window and one guy was lying on the footpath. He had blood on his face, and I think he might have broken both his legs when he jumped from the building.
“Another guy was screaming from the window. He didn’t know what he was supposed to do because he had flames behind him. There was a long drop below him. I reversed the lorry as close as I safely could to the window. The other lads from the footpath told him to jump on the roof of the lorry. He was OK I think.”.”