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02-24-2011, 05:20 AM
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Re: The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand (22 February 2011)
I'm from New Zealand also. very bad, so far we have 98 confirmed dead, 266 still missing. first few mine -      ^moments after they were told by police that there was no hope of finding their mother/wife alive in a collapsed building           ^ man dies on the street with his wife holding his hand after     |
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02-24-2011, 05:50 AM
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Re: The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand (22 February 2011)
interesting touching first hand account from an ambulance offer http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/podcasts/audio/24173235.mp3 |
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02-24-2011, 06:54 PM
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Re: The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand (22 February 2011)
death count now 113 overnight, atleast 228 missing. I've heard of some gut wrenching stories myself. heard of a few toddlers having furniture/TV's fall on them, killing them. One young mother was carrying her baby in a store when the quake happened - she attempted to run out onto the road but an outside upper story deck collapsed as she ran out, hitting and killing her. She dropped with her baby, the baby surviving. All that could be done was put a towel over the mother and to take the baby. This is first-hand from an ambulance officer: "I became a triage officer deciding who was saveable and who wasn't. At the same time the CTV building was burning just in front of me. "Our first patient brought out was a beautiful 20-year-old girl whose spine had been shattered. She was contorted horribly and was paralysed. She was in irreversible shock and lost consciousness as we went. I fought so hard with a surgeon to keep her alive. She didn't make it." "One held a man, gave him his cellphone so he could ring his wife. He told her he loved her, then he died. Another colleague was faced with a horribly entrapped man. There is no way he could be saved while we watched on hopelessly and helplessly and he slipped away through his horrible suffering." "Our last patient had been pinned for some time by his legs. Crews . . . did every damn thing they could do to get him out. In the end a surgeon had to amputate both his legs. We waited desperately to get him into the vehicle. I drove as fast as I could on appalling roads that we could later not return on. He died as we arrived in hospital." "in the meantime, another man had been pinned by his legs by a massive beam. We arranged to uplift all the necessary drugs to prevent crush syndrome. When we returned to him he was gone." and, more pics     ^multiple deaths when this bus was crushed by falling debris             |
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02-26-2011, 07:18 AM
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Re: The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand (22 February 2011)
some doctors from a conference had to give a guy morphine and ketomine then amputate his legs with a hacksaw and utility knife on the spot!
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02-27-2011, 11:43 PM
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Re: The 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand (22 February 2011)
fuck man, my baby siblings were in that... so thankfully they didnt join the casualties
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