Floral tributes have appeared outside the department store where a firefighter was fatally injured fighting an inferno earlier this week. Members of the public have left flowers for 38-year-old Barry Martin, who died earlier on Friday.
Barry was one of more than 100 firefighters sent to the scene of a fire at the former Jenners building in Edinburgh but incurred serious injuries as he tackled the blaze on Monday, January 23. . He was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but tragically died, despite the best efforts of medics.
A Police Scotland probe into the cause of the fire remains ongoing. Alex Cole-Hamilton, Edinburgh Western MSP, has led calls for the firefighter to be awarded a posthumous George Cross, the highest non-military award for gallantry available.
