Irish paramedic living close to Australia fires praises volunteers

An Irish paramedic working in Australia close to the bushfires has said the rural fire fighters are “unpaid heroes.”

Philip Walker, who worked with the National Ambulance Service in county Louth before leaving for New South Wales in 2013, said, “the nearest fire to me at the minute is at emergency level and (they) are evacuating people out of what you would call suburban areas.”