Fire London Fire Brigade 1991 part 6 - cannon street rail crash
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- 1991 documentary about the London Fire Brigade. Camera crews filmed at Kingsland road fire station and 2 of the programmes were about the work of the Euston Emergency tender and the Cannon street rail crash. Sorry the quality is not great on some of the video but this is elsewhere on youtube.
I was lucky enough to Know Mick B, great fireman! Great to work with him…
Massive respect to all those that responded/helped. Whatever you’re paid is not nearly enough.
This was really good. People don’t realise just how dangerous crush injuries are - it’s not just the risk of losing the limb, it’s the toxins that are killers. When the body is crushed, toxins build up. When the body is released there’s a rush of these toxins and depending on the severity of the crush or the length of time, it can actually kill folk. I’ve seen it happen at a car crash here in the highlands. A head on between two cars and while one driver was relatively ok, the other one was pinned from the chest. She was talking away while the fire brigade cut her free but given that I’m a nurse and knew the paramedic crew and the (retained) fire fighters at the scene, we knew what was going to happen once she was freed from the car. She wasn’t very old and was really sweet - she was trying to reassure us who were helping her and I think that made it worse. I hadn’t thought about that for years but watching this brought it back.
The world needs more people like Mick Batchelor
What caused the cannon street crash? I wouldn't know because I was only six years old in 1991.
The cause was put down to driver error as no fault was found with the braking system on the train. The driver also tested positive for cannabis although according to Wikipedia it was not deemed sufficient enough to have caused the accident. The crashworthyness of the coaches was also called into question bearing in mind the train was actually only moving at 5mph when it hit the buffers. The resulting report spelt the end for the epbs. They were gradually phased out of service soon after
Hey how’s things loving all the videos was just wondering if you have a blues and twos episode about the armed police in Liverpool the episode was called level 2 I think. Also any more blues and twos would be great
darren murphy hi Darren. Sorry I haven’t got any more blues and twos to put on now but thank you for your message.
I remember that episode it was a good one
When there compact it's called the consetina effect when carriages compact
LFB did a fantastic job, but the London Ambulance Service's standard of organisation at that job was (as ever) a shambles. I did nearly 30 years in the LAS and look back with a mixture of regret and shame. Whenever I worked with LFB crews they were invariably professional, motivated, caring and organised. If only the same could be said of many of my LAS colleagues and officers. I was one of the first paramedics in the country, and wish with all my heart I'd been in the LFB instead. LAS was a joke and I bitterly regret joining.
premier4 6 Wasn’t the Ambulance Service still in the throes of changing over to a more qualified service at the time. I remember seeing one of these documentaries as they were still being referred to ‘Extended Trained’ Ambulanceman/Woman as opposed to Paramedic.
@@tigger1662003 Higher trained staff was needed and a good thing. But the difficulty after 1990 for LAS was and is that it became rudderless with an ever increasing call volume, (the majority of which do not represent an emergency), resulting in a drift away from an emergency service culture and a cultural shift away from a disciplined set up. Every major incident I attended - and I did a few - ended as an embarrassing LAS shambles. I've written an extensive paper about the subject but no journalist or politician or medical professional wants to take any interest. Yet everyone who reads it says it is absolutely right. Meanwhile LAS now does between 5000 and 7000 calls a day which is unsustainable. Ultimately demand has to be reduced. And a re examination of how LAS operates is long overdue.
My other half works for the Scottish Ambulance Service. He’s been in over 20 years and we live in a small village that’s 100 miles away from the “big” hospital in Inverness and half an hour from the community hospital. The lack of staff and lack of ambulances up here is rediculous. The area is often left without cover due to the fact the rural crews get hammered with calls when they’re dropping off a patient that’s been transferred to the big hospital from the small one. My husband works from 0900 on Wednesday until 0900 the following Wednesday. There’s no station and the crew work from home with the a,balance parked outside their home. They have to collect their oppo before going to the call-out. He still enjoys his work but it’s the middle management that seem to know eff-all about planning or financial matters. As long as things look good on paper, they don’t care about the strain their crews and vehicles are under.