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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Numerous people have drowned as a result of "a little wade out".
Speaking as someone who has actually saved / rescued someone from drowning I can tell you, categorically, that I would think - long and hard - before doing it again.
In fact I'm pretty sure that I could, with clear conscience, happlily live (that being the operative word) with myself were I not to do anything and leave it to those who are charged with that responsibility to do so.
Don't get me wrong - it's not that I would be concerned with - as you so glibly put it in juvenile terms - "catching a cold" or "splinters" but rather more important things like risking my life and the very real potential that my wife and (now three) children might, through no fault of theirs, be left fatherless.
I appreciate that may be a hard concept for you and others to grasp.
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And you would be perfectly correct in "thinking long and hard" .compounding the problem of rescuing 1 person from ,for example ,drowning in a river or at sea by adding another person who may get into trouble for the same reason as the first person can put the emergency services in a impossible position and mean 2 people dying instead of none .
In the case of the 7/7 bombings one dog handler has hit out at other officers for holding back
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The inquests had heard from explosives sniffer dog handler Pc Glen Hesketh, who hit out at other officers for holding back from getting on the bombed Tavistock Square bus to help the injured.
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Undoubtedly those officers were following training and rules designed not to add emergency service personnel to the casualty count ,and those protocols have been designed around past experience where personnel have lost lives .
Now without any figures to hand i think the cases of people dying because ES personnel where doing a "risk assessment" is very low and the number of ES personnel dying in the course of their duties is also very low ,so i am inclined to think that the balance between going into a situation all"gung ho" and going in ,in a calm considered manner is just about right .