My steer-o!

Driver hailed as he uses lorry to help man escape burning building

- BY SEAN MURPHY

A HERO lorry driver saved a life by reversing his truck up close to a burning building so a man trapped inside could jump on to the vehicle.

Tomasz Zareba told the Irish Mirror he did it because he thought it “would be much safer for him”.

Amazingly, the Polish man said he then carried on with his job and “finished [his] deliveries for the day”.

Three fire victims were taken to hospital following the Dublin city centre blaze yesterday but many claim tragedy was avoided thanks to the lorry driver.

As the fire raged on the third floor of a four-storey building at Granby Row in Dublin 1, the passing Eurospar driver assessed the danger.

Video footage shows Tomasz reversing the lorry under a window of the building as thick, black smoke and fire billowed out.