|
|
|
UER Store
|
|
order your copy of Access All Areas today!
|
|
|
kowalski
Total Likes: 22 likes
| | | Re: Hearn rescue < Reply # 46 on 6/17/2008 11:44 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by exkalibur 'Ryan' is screwed. Current billing rates for TFS are; Pumper: $500 Rescue: $425 Squad: $750 Air Light: $600 Hazmat: $800 Tower: $550 Command 30: $800 District Chief: $400 Platoon Chief: $500 So, the bill which SHOULD be sent to this guy is going to total around $8000. If he gets said bill, you can bet he'll hire a lawyer, and you can bet that lawyer will go after OPG who would be ordered to either demo or secure the hell out of the place - malt-plant styles.
|
Forgive me, but do you actually do any of this stuff still, or do you get your kicks these days exclusively from coming on here and psychically undermining / giving the fear to those who do? Since none of us know what happened, and nor at this rate are we likely to unless the victim or someone who knows him comes on here and tells us about it, I think it's really stupid and indefensible to be relishing the financial penalties that may come down on the guy, let alone speculating about what his response will be. Most of us have faced a non-zero potential for an accident of this nature on more than one occasion; personally speaking, I've put a foot through a metal floor and in a separate incident slid two hundred feet down an underground spillway at relatively high velocity. I think it's pretty tasteless to be speculating about how "screwed" the guy is. Now, I don't usually pull out this 'reach into the heart of your activity' bullshit (I'm usually the one being accused of not being sympathetic enough to the aims and feelings of others). Similarly, you're probably too deeply sunk into your emergency services foaming to exhibit any genuine empathy. But I don't know, some measure of restraint could be imposed on the currently baseless scorn to which you're subjecting the guy. We don't know what happened, and this accident may very well have occurred outside of any deliberate decision and failure of observation he made that day short of not going into the upper levels of that plant. The hazard may have been difficult to spot or non-objective, the guy may have been as prepared and observant as you or I, and simply stepped onto the wrong spot during the wrong period in the building's history. None of us who actually do this stuff are immune to the possibility of getting 'screwed' seven stories up an abandoned industrial building, and until there are facts on the ground that implicate a serious mistake of objective judgment in this accident, none of us should be acting as if we're better than the victim.
| |
| Ride My Pony
Location: Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
Dreamer...
| | | | Accident at Hearn News Release < Reply # 51 on 6/17/2008 5:47 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Toronto Police Service News Release Industrial accident, 55 Division Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 9:15 AM 55 Division 416-808-5500 On Sunday, June 15, 2008,at 4 p.m., police received a call for an industrial accident at the Richard L. Hearn Thermal Generating Station. It is reported that: - two men, who are not employees at this site, gained access through a secure area of the building for the purposes of taking artistic photographs of the building's interior, which is currently undergoing demolition, - they went to the sixth-floor catwalk where one of the men fell from an open area in the catwalk into an abandoned coal hopper directly below, - emergency services were called and a search was initiated, - the victim was located a short time later and emergency measures were enacted, - the victim was extricated from the bottom of the coal hopper by members of Toronto Fire Services and was rushed to hospital with serious injuries. The incident is currently being investigated by the Toronto Police Service and the Ministry of Labour. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or online at www.222tips.com Constable Wendy Drummond, Public Information, for Detective Kim O’Toole, 55 Division
| Cam, tripod, and lenses. Industrial Decay. Loosing all my senses, spending my holiday. Climbing over fences. To roam where no one may. |
| |
This thread is in a public category, and can't be made private. |
|
All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire.
To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site:
UER CONTACT
View Terms of Service |
View Privacy Policy |
Server colocation provided by Beanfield
This page was generated for you in 281 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 739369112 pages have been generated.
|
|