NEW YORK (AP) — A man was trapped inside a steel-reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an attempt to rescue him for safety reasons. Fortunately, the vault was on a timer and opened on its own Wednesday morning, officials said.

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    1 year ago

    Between the time taken and the fact they wouldn’t cut the steel plating to avoid gassing the guy inside; why even bother starting? Just wait for it to open as scheduled.

    They didn’t get him out, wasted a bunch of time+effort, and now have to repair a hole they didn’t need or use…

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      Because if he had had a medical emergency, everyone would have been up in arms about them not doing anything.

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        I could understand that more if they actually followed through and got him out, or if he was in some sort of distress beyond ‘help I’m trapped’ to begin with; but the construction isn’t a surprise, they knew the plating was there before they started, if you weren’t going to cut in anyway why cause all the damage needlessly to begin with.

        It’s like seeing a dog locked in a car, but you don’t want to break the window so you stand there keying the paintjob until the owner gets back. Either help or don’t, but why the pointless damage that doesn’t actually help anyone?

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        Why would they need to do anything before a medical emergency? I don’t have an ambulance sitting outside my house in the morning just in case. If this guy has a medical emergency while locked in a vault then they could try to do something faster.

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          If cutting in takes, say, three hours, and he’s going to be in there for eight, and he has a brain aneurysm at hour four, he’ll be dead before they can get to him if they wait.

          There may not be an ambulance right outside your house, but at least they can get there in a few minutes.

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            Lol. If he had a brain aneurysm what would they actually be able to do for him? Yes, there are some extremely rare things like a brain aneurysm that would be very bad, but seriously what are the odds?

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      If I were a fireman responding to the scene I’d fuck shit up just to teach the building/business owner to be more responsible with their human trap.

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      Because some Firefighters get excited when they actually get to do something that’s not responding to falling elderly/etc (understandable, it’s why they do it). I’ve heard personal stories of some getting mad because a retired FF already put out a car fire before they arrived and it got worse.