Pictured sprinting through the crowd of shell-shocked faces towards the injured, the image of firefighter Ben Ryder has joined those who have symbolised the heroic actions of emergency services on one of Liverpool’s darkest days.
A modest man with 24 years’ service at Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, the area manager admits he feared for the worst when he got the call to say a car had struck people at the Liverpool FC victory parade.
