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发信人: Bailout (秋海棠), 信区: Military
标 题: 民主：没有预算，三番75名警察围观一人自杀成功！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jun 2 06:57:10 2011, 美东)
‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110601/ts_yblog_thel
An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up
to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others
watched idly from the shore.
Why? Officials blamed a departmental policy, stemming from budget cuts, that
prevented them from jumping in to save him.
Fifty-year-old Raymond Zack spent nearly an hour in the water before
drowning. A crowd of about 75 people, in addition to first responders,
watched from the beach in Alameda across the bay from San Francisco as Zack
inched farther and farther away, sometimes glancing back, a witness told the
San Jose Mercury News. "The next thing he was floating face down."
A volunteer eventually pulled Zack's lifeless body from the Bay.
Mike D'Orazi of the Alameda Fire Department said that, due to 2009 budget
cuts, his crews lacked the training and gear to enter the water. And a Coast
Guard boat couldn't access the area because the water was too shallow.
"The incident yesterday was deeply regrettable," D'Orazi said Tuesday. "But
I can also see it from our firefighters' perspective. They're standing there
wanting to do something, but they are handcuffed by policy at that point."
Alameda Police Lt. Sean Lynch also suggested his men did the right thing. "
He was engaged in a deliberate act of taking his own life," Lynch told the
Mercury News. "We did not know whether he was violent, whether drugs were
involved. It's not a situation of a typical rescue."
But at a City Council hearing Tuesday night, some locals expressed outrage
that Zack was left to die. "This just strikes me as not just a problem with
funding, but a problem with the culture of what's going on in our city, that
no one would take the time and help this drowning man," said one resident,
Adam Gillitt.
The city said it would spend up to $40,000 to certify 16 firefighters in
land-based water rescues.
One witness to the event told a local news station that Zack was looking at
people on the shore. "We expected to see at some point that there would be a
concern for him," said another. |
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