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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-water-ditch-999-services-stood-waited.html
What do you think? Hero or zero?
What do you think? Hero or zero?
Some heros. H&S madness.
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Some bad decisions were made. But I believe if they thought the victim was still alive then the three services would have acted differently. That wont help the victims family I know.
Remember how the Police and Fire service fought to save that young man trapped in a storm drain grate in Hull just over a year ago.
Remember how the Police and Fire service fought to save that young man trapped in a storm drain grate in Hull just over a year ago.
And they dithered over that one, he was bound to die of hypothermia, left for that amount of time.
At worst, they could have cut his foot/leg off, barbaric I know, but he would have lived.
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No thought for personal safety cost these three Police Officers their lives:
http://www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk/news/1942550.service_planned_to_remember_rescue_police_officers/
So what is the point in risking further lives without fully accessing the situation.
http://www.blackpoolcitizen.co.uk/news/1942550.service_planned_to_remember_rescue_police_officers/
So what is the point in risking further lives without fully accessing the situation.
J
Johnmelad502
When the police and fire service are afraid of 18" of water, they become cowards.
FFS, the fire service had all of the equipment they needed to attempt a safe rescue. Shame on them all.
FFS, the fire service had all of the equipment they needed to attempt a safe rescue. Shame on them all.
Sounds easy sat here
If the Fire Brigade do not know about hypothermia and its effects, they are badly under trained.
Cold running water over your body will induce shivering after a few minutes,death is certain to occur shortly.
Hard decisions sometimes need to be made, H&S in these instances will cause delay and deaths.
Do you think the torrent of water may have played a small part in preventing an amputation.
I'm sure they know at least as much as you about hypothermia.
I'm sure they know at least as much as you about hypothermia.
Chop his leg off with an axe, yes i could, he may not feel it with the cold,if he did, tough **** the shock comes next, then the handshake, i would of put a rope round the bottom of is leg, and snatched him out, wether he liked it or not, he would still shake my hand.
J
Johnmelad502
Police, firemen and paramedics refused to go to the aid of an accident victim who was drowning in just 18 inches of water... because they believed it was too dangerous.
A senior fire officer banned his men from using ropes and ladders to climb down a 15ft bank to the victim after carrying out a ‘risk assessment’.
Acting on advice, ten police officers who attended the emergency also failed to rescue father-of-three Karl Malton, 32, as he lay face down in the shallow water
How could tying a rope around someone and lowering them down a 16 foot bank into a stream be dangerous?
Especially when there was a mob of them standing at the top ready to pull the rope back out in a couple of seconds.
Especially when there was a mob of them standing at the top ready to pull the rope back out in a couple of seconds.
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