Comment by andyjohnson0
9 years ago
You might want to find a better way to describe the death of a person who was brave enough to risk their life to try to save other people.
Hint: these are people.
9 years ago
You might want to find a better way to describe the death of a person who was brave enough to risk their life to try to save other people.
Hint: these are people.
Bravery on its own just isn't enough. This complete fool forgets all his confined space training, endangering not only himself but also his men, who now have one more victim to extricate. The rest of the rescue crew are people, too. Submariners have the word "oxygen thief" for this magnitude of idiot.
Well, the accident in question happened nearly 50 years ago. Who knows what kind of training was in place at the time or even how well understood this sort of problem was.
"Little House on the Prairie" has a scene where the father digs a well and tests the air downhole with a candle. That's awareness of the danger in a literary work more than 100 years ago. Farmers and well-diggers have been aware of the phenomenon for centuries, it's inconceivable that a fireman of the mid-20th century didn't know how to defend himself against the danger.
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