<strong>Paul Dadge helped Davinia Turrel cross the road in the aftermath of the attack © PA</strong> <strong>Paul Dadge helped Davinia Turrel cross the road in the aftermath of the attack © PA</strong> A FORMER Wokingham firefighter revealed he had no idea he was witnessing the aftermath of a terrorist attack when he helped the victims of the 7/7 London bombings.

Paul Dadge, who used to live on Peach Street and served as a retained firefighter at the town’s Denton Road station, recalled the day when 52 people were killed and hundreds were injured.

It was 10 years ago today that he was on his way to his job in IT at AOL when he was ejected from a Tube train at Baker Street due to what he believed was a power fault.

He was photographed with his arms around badly injured Davinia Turrell, clutching a burns mask to her face, outside Edgware Road tube station.

The picture was beamed across the world and remains one of the more powerful images of the worst terrorist attack on British soil. The 38-year-old said he helped out because it was ‘common sense’ rather than because of his time in the fire service.

Speaking to ITV’s Good Morning Britain, he said: "There were a group of people congregating on the corner.

"They needed some guidance, they needed some help.

"At that point there was nobody there to offer that help. I asked the Marks and Spencer store if people could go into their store and wait.” The photograph swept across the internet and Mr Dadge found himself thrust into the spotlight.

He said: “I think if that photograph hadn’t been taken I’d have probably gone into work that day and maybe patted myself on the back and say ‘you did ok that day’.

"I had a sixth sense the photograph would be used because as we ran across the road I said to Davinia ‘you’re going to be in the news this evening’.

"I got into work at 2.15 in the afternoon. By the time I got there the picture was all over the internet. “The London Standard and the Express and Star up in the Midlands ran it on the front page that evening and it was on a lot of the front pages the day after and Time Magazine the week after that.” He added that it took hours for him to realise terrorists had attacked the city during the early-morning rush hour. “On my tube train we were told there had been some kind of power-related incident at Edgware Road and the train would have to terminate at Baker Street,” he said. “The stories around transport for London saying it was power related very much match with what I thought. “It was 12:15 in the afternoon that I finally realised that it had been a terrorist attack and that other bombs had gone off around London. “I had seen a picture of a bus with its roof missing on the TV and I remember thinking it looked like it had hit a bridge. “I was quite frustrated thinking ‘never mind them, you want to get down here’ and then realising the news ticker across the bottom of the screen was reporting explosions and that it wasn’t just us.”