The rescuer was one of a team of locals who did everything they could to help those trapped inside the wreckage of the building before the emergency services arrived in the remote village.
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One of the rescuers in the County Donegal explosion has told how he pulled three people from the debris before emergency services arrived. The man, who lives in the small village of Creeslough and did want to be identified, told Sky News he ran to the service station secondsHe said:"It was so enormous and so loud we didn't know what it was - we knew there was a risk but we just had to go and help."I remember her face being swollen but we got her out.
"Another man had fallen down one floor from one of the flats and somehow had a table on top of him - that probably saved his life - he was under it and managed to get out."
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