Berg’s Third Law
By Mitch Berg
To: The Experts
From: Mitch Berg, Keen Observer
Re: Stop
Dear experts of the world,
Every single time there’s a major disaster, you solemnly intone that after three days, you’re not going to recover any survivers trapped beneath any rubble.
And every single time, you are wrong:
French rescue workers pulled a 24-year-old man alive from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti on Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake devastated much of the country.Wismond Jean-Pierre, who had no visible injuries but was severely dehydrated, was immediately loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital for treatment.
Lt. Col. Christophe Renou, a rescuer with the French team, called the three-hour effort “a miracle” as he was briefly overcome with emotion. Other members of the team — assisted by American and Greek workers — were seen weeping with joy following the rescue.
“This is God,” Frank Louvier, the chief of the French rescue team, said as he pointed to the sky.
Your lesson is clear, experts; shut up and dig.
That is all.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
When I took a First Responder course the instructor told us that, if we found someone who was non-responsive, we must attempt life-saving procedures unless the victim has been decapitated or there were visible signs of decomposition. Seems like that would go without saying.