shakran

Everyone pay your respects to cxnaj20. Obviously, cxnaj20 drops everything and runs to help anyone who needs it, even if cxnaj20 doesn't know the first thing about how to help.

I'm sure that in this situation, cxnaj20 would have rushed right over to the car and dragged the driver right out and started pounding on his chest. Never mind whether that would have helped him or killed him, the important bit is that cxnaj20 went over and did something, right?


Look, the guy's a reporter. And FYI he's a reporter that's green as hell - and so is his photog. I know this will come as a great big shock to you guys, but they don't teach EMS training in journalism school.

I've been in the TV news business for WAY too long, and you won't catch me "helping" in that situation either. I have no desire to kill someone, and since I don't know what the hell I'm doing with first response, there's a good chance that that's exactly what I'd end up doing.

What I WOULD do is exactly what that reporter/photog team did. Make sure the people at the station know EXACTLY what's going on and where so that they can pass the info along to 911. I'd also make sure the viewers knew EXACTLY what's going on and where because it's pretty likely that someone from EMS is watching and it'd be nice for them to get a head start on the call (this, btw, is exactly what happened - EMS was rolling their trucks before the 911 call got out). After that i'd close the shot out and make sure nothing was on fire - that's what the photog did after running back to the live truck to grab his fire extinguisher.

What that crew did is exactly what I would have wanted one of my crews to do. If they'd run over and started meddling around trying to "help" the victim without proper first responder training, I'd make it patently clear that they were NEVER to do that again.