When the price of a second is life
The evening of July 25 was “hot” for firefighters. They had to rescue two suicides. 7:23 p.m. a report was received that in Panevėžys, Marijonų Street, a person was preparing to jump out the window of the fourth floor. When the firefighters arrived, the man sat on the windowsill and injured himself. Firefighters instantly inflated the trampoline and set it up under the window.
As police officers tried to enter the apartment, the man jumped out the window and fell on the trampoline. The man suffered minor injuries and was taken to a medical facility by doctors. According to Raimondas Imbrasas, a senior specialist of the Operational Management Division of the Panevėžys County Fire and Rescue Board, a quick reaction of firefighters is very important in such a situation. The 2nd team of Panevėžys APGV arrived at the scene. Although the trampoline is used very rarely, the division was not disturbed and the man was rescued by the division Lukas Beinoras, firefighters Darius Širvinskas and Vadimas Riabovas.
“It’s a coincidence that yesterday we took the car ladder from the repair, where we transport the trampoline. We blew it around the corner of the house so it wouldn’t catch my eye. The man has threatened to jump before, but there was no trampoline under the window. Maybe he wouldn’t have danced now if he hadn’t. But having a trampoline, we must use it. As soon as we built it, the man hung on one arm, obstructed the balcony and fell on the trampoline, “said Imbrasas, who was involved in the rescue operation.
Rescuers were called by their mother
After 11 p.m. Kaunas fire and rescue workers were called to help the police on V. Landsbergio-Žemkalnio Street. A report has been received that a man at home is planning to commit suicide. Rescuers were called by the mother who was in the apartment with him. However, police officers could not enter the apartment because the woman did not find the key. The son had locked the apartment door and locked himself in the toilet.
“Since it takes a long time to build a car ladder, we decided to break the door,” said Andrejus Trukšinas, the commander of the shift of the 4th team of Kaunas County Fire and Rescue Board. – We have already found the man without any signs of life. The medics immediately began to resuscitate him, his heartbeat, breathing, and he was taken to the hospital. The whole operation from our arrival to the transfer of the victim to the medics took only 4 minutes. We had to hurry to save. “
Together with the commander of the shift, the man was rescued by a division Rolandas Čenys, firefighters rescuers Žygimantas Paukštys, Egidijus Vileikis and Raimundas Matakas. According to A. Trukšinas, who has been working as a firefighter and shift commander for 10 years, they are brave, determined men who are able to make quick decisions and work in a team.
Evaldas Raižys, the deputy head of the 4th team of the Kaunas County Fire and Rescue Board, said that the man was rescued this time because the firefighters had purchased new, highly efficient firebreakers: “If they had used a circular saw, it would have been too late.” Suicides have to be rescued about 20 times in Kaunas. Last year, 71 people committed suicide in the city, and that number has been rising recently.
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