Fire crews rescue child stranded on ice (From Echo)
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Fire crews rescue child stranded on ice
5:42pm Saturday 11th February 2012 in Basildon By Gina Marden
FIRE crews were called in to rescue a child who became stranded on a frozen lake.
The incident happened just before 5pm on Saturday when the child had wandered on to the lake at the Essex Wildlife Trust in Drake Road, Chafford Hundred.
Fire crews from Grays and Leigh were called to rescue the child and, wearing dry suits and using rescue paths, began their rescue bid.
The child was safely rescued by 5.30pm.
Comments(10)
Catfish
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8:00pm Sat 11 Feb 12
chavbow
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8:13pm Sat 11 Feb 12
vinnyh
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8:14pm Sat 11 Feb 12
vinnyh
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8:14pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Dave_
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8:50am Mon 13 Feb 12
When I was a child from about the age of 9 or 10, I did things and got into scrapes, that would make modenn day parents reel in anguish and horror. But if they took a couple of seconds to think back to their own childhood, perspective would be regained. I used to play in the pits where now sits C100 and Lakey as a child and much fun was had by all.
No the child hadn't wandered on to the ice, they thought "I wonder how far I can get on the ice".
Mrs J
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12:27pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Bernard 87
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2:40pm Mon 13 Feb 12
Dave_
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10:10am Tue 14 Feb 12
I look back at what I did when I was between 9 and 15 and wonder why or how I’m still here in my late 40s. People saw us and never once did we get the emergency services turn up as there was no need. Quite why you decided to call the police mystifies me. What would you have done had it been a group of older kids say 16-20? Nothing.
Did I tell mum and dad, not until years later. Our kids did similar things, we warned them and they ‘listened’ just like I did when my mum and dad warned me. Believe me had anyone reported them to the police, they would have got some well chosen advice.
So yes it’s dangerous, but unless we allow our kids to lose the ‘cotton wool and bubble wrap’, they are going to grow up lesser people. They will hurt themselves and some may suffer worse, but this is all part of life’s learning curve and as a parent you cannot be there 24/7 and neither should you try. Today schools invariably close when it’s a bit snowy for no other reason than H&S and the kids might get hurt, teachers have told me this. My schools never shut when it snowed and a **** good time we had, sliding on icy playgrounds and having snowball fights, no doubt hurting ourselves and maybe shedding the odd tear and getting wet with a snowball put down your neck, which wasn’t bullying, but would probably be considered as such in our sterile modern world. The last 2-3 generations have been suffocated due to governmental and media led hysteria about H&S and fear of people out to harm children. So by all means warn them but if they aren’t your kids and they don’t listen, don’t get involved.
So as Bernard says they probably got home and got told off and will now think twice before doing it or probably not.
Mrs J
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2:30pm Thu 16 Feb 12
Alice in Her Own Land :P says...
5:48pm Sat 11 Feb 12