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New video shows off-duty firefighter saving girl after Boston bombings

An earlier photograph showed Jane and her brother Martin standing just yards away from terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

IrishCentral.com

BOSTON — A dramatic video shows the moment an off-duty firefighter came to the rescue of Boston bombing victim Jane Richard, 7.

Matt Patterson, 30, helped the seven-year-old in the aftermath of the blast which killed her brother Martin.

An Irish dancing student at the Clifden Academy of Irish Dance in Milton since the age of three, the little girl had been watching the parade with her family. An earlier photograph showed Jane and her brother Martin standing just yards away from terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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