http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/07/eyewitness_describes_dorchester_firework_maiming
'ambulance arrived in 15 minutes - good thing they were very quick - he could have bled out' Anyone know if the ambulance really took 15 minutes to arrive? I was going to dismess that as crazy - but now that I think about it - maybe this article is trying to tell us something. The cops were probably there in 4 minutes - the FD was probably there in 5 minutes - the ambulance was probably there in 8 minutes - this is far more likely (based on experience and their published info) The kid probably could have bled out in 3 or 4 minutes - but I suspect that his injury actually 'healed' itself pretty fast - in other words, the arteries and veins sealed up at the injury site - there is no mention of a tourniquet in the story - (can anyone clarify this angle of the story?) (Arent ateries like stretched out garden hoses? if they get cut, they retract into the body and are very hard to grab with a hemostat?) Note - the witness did exactly the right thing by immediately calling 911 - obviously she recognized the dangerousness of a possible arterial laceration or amputation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
