Hero firefighter recalls battle to save Glasgow Central station from Union Street blaze

The hero firefighter who saved Glasgow Central station has told of the terrifying six-hour ordeal battling the city’s devastating inferno.

John Banach, 53, situated at the top of his 115ft High Reach ladder, gave everything to prevent the dangerous fire from spreading.

Tasked with saving the station and Grand Central Hotel, he said: “The heat was so intense.

“I was looking at the embers going way up into the sky and at the devastation below, thinking, this is never going to end.

“The fire just kept coming, but I was determined to stay in that cage for as long as it took to try to knock the fire back from the station and the hotel.”

The destructive blaze broke out around 3.45pm on Sunday, in a ground floor vape shop on Union Street.

It led to the destruction building which had stood on Union Street for 175 years, including Union Corner, at the junction of Union Street and Gordon Street.

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