No one will save you (real story that happened today)  |
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 Today I stopped on a highway when I saw burning car crashed on the side of the road. Many people already stopped to help and I saw 2 people carrying out an old woman from a burning car. The flames were wild and they tried to extinguish them with two fire extinguishers but it was no use. We were stopping random cars on the road to get more extinguishers but it was too late. I asked the guys that were there first if anybody else was in car and they say they don't know because the car was totaled and heavily burning and it was impossible to see anything. The woman that they carried out was unconscious but still breathing.
But this is what made me rage:
the first thing I did was called the ambulance. Then we called firefighters and the police. We waited there for 30 minutes watching the burning car unable to do a thing...in those 30 minutes nobody showed up! No police, firefighters or ambulance! And it happened on the main highway in a capital city! There was nothing I could do at this point and there was already a big line of people around so I decided to carry on. Then around 1km from the accident I've seen parked police car with 2 cops just sitting in there DOING NOTHING. Can you believe it?
You can't rely on 911 at all. But the title of this topic isn't justified because there were real heroes, random people who risked their lives to get the women out of the burning car.
Later at home I checked news on the internet and found out that one person was still in the car and burned to death.
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1.  learn2earn (10600) | 1 month ago |  I think that similar stories are overwhelming. There has been a lot of people burned to death because those in authorities failed to respond in a timely manner. But there may have been some problems that have prevented them to do so. In any case, I just wished that I am in the scene so that I can also have done something. Thirty minutes is a very long time to watch a burning car without doing anything. It's really a tragedy to behold such a sight.
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 Bionicman (1434) | 1 month ago | From what I could see, I thought nobody is in the car (but I wasn't 100% sure).
I was more worried about unconscious woman they pulled out. | |
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2.  bounce58 (742) | 1 month ago |  I saw your header and saw a bit of your topic. Made me click and read more of your story. Really interesting to know that there were cops sitting around 1km away and doing nothing. In this age of modern technology, they couldn't reach these cops?! Or reach fire and rescue?! I shudder at the thought of my family needing this help and finding no one.
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| Bionicman (1434) | 1 month ago | When I called, I was told that they are on the way. But why the hell they didn't send the nearest patrol? A few moments later I've seen the firefighters going in an opposite direction but there was still long way until the spot where they could turn the truck in the right direction. | |
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| 3. zed_k4 (4501) | 1 month ago |  Oh my! That was so awful... Poor lady, I wonder who was in the car; whether it was her daughter or husband or whoever..
30 minutes is indeed a bit long to arrive at a scene. And the police just sat there doing nothing? Oh my....
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