It was an overcast day in southern England last March. That is to say, a normal day in southern England. He then suffered a seizure. His body, lying motionless and face down in the water, was spotted at pm by a witness who immediately called emergency services like Within five minutes, emergency crews began arriving. Then more. They brought out a state of the art emergency medical tent, resuscitation equipment, several fire engines, ambulances, and specialty dive gear.
For more than thirty minutes, emergency crews set up a complex operations center. Fire fighters positioned their trucks. Police officers cordoned off the area for crowd control. Water Support Unit officers donned protective gear and checked the pond for underwater hazards. Yet with all of this commotion, nobody bothered to fetch Mr. And so, the emergency crews stood by waiting until a specialty team arrived, donned protective gear, and waded into the waist-deep water at maximum depth to retrieve Mr.
Needless to say, doctors formally pronounced him dead by the time his body arrived to the hospital, roughly minutes after he fell in the lake.
Last year , a year old girl in London collapsed while in the middle of a cross-country competition. It took emergency workers minutes to arrive, at which point they refused to carry her body through the muddy park to the ambulance as it was against health and safety regulations.
Then there was the case of year old Alison Hume in Scotland; she had fallen into a mine shaft and was trapped there for six hours suffering from hypothermia because emergency service supervisors claimed that using their winch to retrieve her would be a violation of regulations. Apparently you have to be trained by the government in order to jump in the water and save a drowning child.
