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Ambulance Victoria thanks the public after Bourke Street
In the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy, Ambulance Victoria has released a touching video thanking the "warm-hearted individuals and a compassionate community" in Melbourne.
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Ambulance Victoria thanks the public after Bourke Street
In the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy, Ambulance Victoria has released a touching video thanking the "warm-hearted individuals and a compassionate community" in Melbourne.
"It's hard to explain just how inspiring it was to see people were just doing what needed to be done amongst the tragedy."
The video, released online on Friday, features several paramedics recalling how members of the public had dropped everything and raced to the aid of those injured in the attack on January 20, helping in whatever way they could.
A scene from the Ambulance Victoria video. Photo: Ambulance Victoria
"Wherever I looked and there was someone injured, they weren't on their own, they had people with them," another paramedic said.
"They weren't just people patting their brows, they were people providing medical assistance."
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Six people were killed and more than 30 were injured when a car was driven through the busy CBD mall, along a footpath and into crowds of pedestrians.
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Ambulance Victoria chief executive Tony Walker said the online tribute video was a "grassroots" initiative of the paramedics who had been at the scene. He said he only saw the footage the night before it was released.
 "I was crying when I saw it," he told radio 3AW. "It was an incredibly powerful video which has come from the hearts of the paramedics who genuinely wanted to say thank you to the community.
"One thing they kept saying to us was, 'We didn't get a chance to find out what their names were, we didn't get a chance to thank them'."
Mr Walker said several paramedics have taken time off work following the incident, and were being supported.
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