HSE focus on oxygen tanks in ambulance blaze probe

The HSE investigation into the ambulance fire in Naas will look at whether there was a problem with connections to one of the oxygen tanks in the ambulance.

Christopher Byrne, aged 78, from Suncroft, Co Kildare, died and two ambulance workers, Dave Finnegan and Stephen Lloyd, from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, suffered burn injuries when there was an explosion in the vehicle outside Naas Hospital on Thursday.

There are three different type of oxygen tanks on ambulances — ranging from portable smaller cylinders to 1.4m F-sized cylinders. It is believed the fire may have begun with a F-sized cylinder.