Property News · November 5, 2011

Emergency services: trauma on the job


Emergency service workers never know what horrors they might have to face. Where can they turn for help when emotional trauma hits them?Sarah Hardy is bound to see some traumatic sights this bonfire weekend. But the paramedic predicts that most injuries she treats will not be caused by fireworks, but by alcohol.”Friday and Saturday are the ambulance crew’s busiest nights,” says Hardy, 44, from Worcester Park in south-west London. “The fire service works hard on prevention and we see fewer accidents around Guy Fawkes night than in the past. But we regularly have to handle nasty accidents, physical assaults and stabbings, and sometimes fatal fires and deaths, caused by drunkenness.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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