Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing?

drzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Alright. But once they’re pulled out of the rubble, where do you you think they went?

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  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if you’re aware but when it became apparent that a big event was happening on the morning of Sept 11, the hospitals braced for mass casualties and… waited… and waited… and they never came.

    marketwatch.com/…/how-they-first-knew-9-11-was-so…

    There were only 20 people pulled from the rubble. Six were firefighters, and 5 were police.

    Nurses get a lot of well deserved praise. It’s just that in this case there wasn’t an uptick in emergency medical needs.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is why right here. Had hospitals and makeshift medical areas been swarmed with patients, nurses would have responded and been praised for it, as they should. But there weren't survivors, which highlighted how bad it was.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In your own question you are identifying something that isn’t a first responder. First responders arrive on scene.

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  • drzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’ll never get it. Nurses weren’t literally sifting through thousands of corpses, hoping to find living people. Nurses weren’t breathing in dust and ashen remains of those that were burned in the fires. First responders were dealing with the disaster as it happened. Hence why they’re called first responders. You’re aftercare. Once the first responders rescued people, they were sent to doctors and nurses, so they could do their jobs. Meanwhile, first responders went back into the rubble to maybe find someone alive, but mostly finding corpses. Many mangled beyond anything you’ve ever seen before.

    First responders are talked about more cause, quite frankly, they were doing more. How many corpses can you say you had to push pass, so you can get to the living person that was next to them, or grab the hand of the person you hoped was alive, only to drag a corpse missing it’s left side. How many broken crushed corpses did you have to drag out of a hole in the ground so the coroner could do their job, and you could go back in and pull out another corpse, or if you’re really lucky, someone that lived.

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