Thursday, March 11, 2010

17 million passengers and no ambulance!



Dusseldorf - Haushaltsreden are sometimes "bubbles" - even those of OB Joachim Erwin. The announced for 2006: "For the North Fire Station are ready eleven million euros." Has happened, nothing since then.
Now, died at the airport a man who had one ambulance from the neighboring guard might have been saved.
The tragedy occurred on Tuesday at 18 clock at the terminal. Cab guards Cihan Ünal's eye-witness: "On the bench sat a man who suddenly hochwarf his arms and could not breathe. I immediately chose the "112«. "
Struggling for breath as the man who Speditionskaufmann August B. (47) from Velbert, blue deliver, dialed the emergency Ünal again: "It looks critically - they come quickly!"
It took me - as the minutes of the fire-proof control center - a quarter of an hour, until the paramedics, who had to come from the guard Hüttenstraße, arrived. Too late! August B. was dead!
"Taxi drivers had previously tried to resuscitate the man," says Ünal. "Three times he opened his eyes again - but it took forever until the ambulance came."
Why the airport has 17 million passengers per year with no own ambulance? "Not our thing, but the urban fire service," said airport spokesman Torsten Hiermann. "We've got no more visitors than the Schadowarkaden - and where no one calls for an ambulance."
And why the city she two years old promise has not cashed? Spokesman Volker Paulat shrugs his shoulders, although he had eight hours of time researching the question: "I really can not answer that. But next year the new fire station is determined directly next to the airport! "He who thinks ...