Fire Critic An Unadulterated View of the Fire Service
A man holds his two year old child out the window of an 8th story apartment building threatening to jump. Who are you gonna call. Where I live, more than likely the firefighters and EMT’s are going to wait while the SWAT team mitigates the emergency. I imagine that they would feel this is a call for them. After all, the man is threatening a life and we may or may not know if he is armed. While I would do what is necessary whenever the time arises, these types of calls are usually left up to the men in blue. Then again, we don’t wear fatigues either.
However, over in China the firefighters are the ones to thank. While firefighters drew the mans attention inside the apartment, another firefighter was lowered to the 8th floor outside and rescued the child. Great job.
Oh, and kudos to the mob of 100 who beat the shit out of the guy after the ordeal.
Firefighter Chen Long grabs a two-year-old girl from her father, Hu Binjun, who allegedly took drugs before attempting to commit suicide with his child by jumping from a window in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Asianewsphoto
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The incident happened at a residential building in eastern Chengdu on Tuesday at 8 am, reportedly after Hu had quarreled with his wife, Wang Xingxin, about his alleged drug use.
Chen Long, the leader of a team of firefighters sent to the scene, said he urged Hu to be calm in the interests of the child before deciding to try to snatch the girl by force.
“But when I slid from the ninth floor to the eighth, the man was alerted. He jumped into the bedroom but placed the baby upside down outside the window,” Chen said.
