We were at work yesterday afternoon, and heard a large bang - went outside, looked around, saw nothing, headed back inside, all of a sudden "help... get me down from here . . . "
looked around again only to discover a parachutist splatterd against the side of our warehouse (an old HIGH hanger on the local airfield) with his parachute caught up on the roof sheet bolts, drapped over the side, clinging on to our gutters. - talk about father cristmas missing his target !
we got the forklift out, put a pallet on it, and thought we could "take the weight of his feet" for a while , meantime, we called for more specialist help in the shape of the fire brigade. trouble was, the forklift got bogged down and we couldn't help the poor old blighter after all!!
Fire brigade arrived, specialist rescue crews, paramedics, ambulance and so on, ended up spending the next hour and a bit trying to get the poor bug*er off the roof safely. over the time, the harness slowly cut off the circulation to his legs so he was unable to get down by himself. Where he'd lost the use of his legs for a while, they had to get a second engine out so they could put two of the big ladders up on either side and hep him down.
They eventually managed to get him down, and take him off to hospital, but then they spent the next 20+ minutes trying to rescue our forklift from the softish ground, they used winches, airbags and so on. and so, in the space of two hours, they managed to rescue one parachutist, and one forklift
anyway, everything was ok, the yard is one hell of a mess with all the firemen trampling over the muddy ground looking up trying to work out what to do next, the parachute is still draped over the roof caught on the bolts, lets hope the wind doesn't get up and rip the roof off.
talk about an interesting afternoon
heres a local new artical
looked around again only to discover a parachutist splatterd against the side of our warehouse (an old HIGH hanger on the local airfield) with his parachute caught up on the roof sheet bolts, drapped over the side, clinging on to our gutters. - talk about father cristmas missing his target !
we got the forklift out, put a pallet on it, and thought we could "take the weight of his feet" for a while , meantime, we called for more specialist help in the shape of the fire brigade. trouble was, the forklift got bogged down and we couldn't help the poor old blighter after all!!
Fire brigade arrived, specialist rescue crews, paramedics, ambulance and so on, ended up spending the next hour and a bit trying to get the poor bug*er off the roof safely. over the time, the harness slowly cut off the circulation to his legs so he was unable to get down by himself. Where he'd lost the use of his legs for a while, they had to get a second engine out so they could put two of the big ladders up on either side and hep him down.
They eventually managed to get him down, and take him off to hospital, but then they spent the next 20+ minutes trying to rescue our forklift from the softish ground, they used winches, airbags and so on. and so, in the space of two hours, they managed to rescue one parachutist, and one forklift
anyway, everything was ok, the yard is one hell of a mess with all the firemen trampling over the muddy ground looking up trying to work out what to do next, the parachute is still draped over the roof caught on the bolts, lets hope the wind doesn't get up and rip the roof off.
talk about an interesting afternoon
heres a local new artical
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