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A specialist paramedic said she 'personally didn't think twice' about entering the blast zone at Manchester Arena to help casualties injured in the bombing, despite knowing it hadn't been declared safe.
Lea Vaughan, then a North West Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) paramedic, also told the ongoing public inquiry that as she arrived at the scene, a woman knocked on the window
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