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THE HONGKONG » TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY

MAY

1988

"Just a RESCUE

MAN"

'M a rescue mah and it's Just part of my job." That is the attitude of the heroes who on days such as this week in Derby- shire, when pits go up in flames and deadly gas fills every cranny miles below the ground, 'go down below to do their fine work.

A rescue man's job is to carry out exploits of bravery which if done on the field of battle would earn him a V.C. And he will say nothing. It's just the job. "Wi' Ted and Bert down there' what else could a man do? "

Yet sometimes there leak out detalls of bravery and fortitude which stir the heart and con- science of the world.

Kaunt

GENERALLY, it is in the

coroner's court, that a man, fumbling nervously with his cap. In halting words re- veals for the first time the full horror of the disaster.

"Everything went black. I could not reach him," said one of these heroes at the Gresford inquiry.

And so the tale unfolds itself. Stammering and shuffling, terri- fled at the majesty of the law. "Nobby," as his pals know him, has to be prompted to recall....

"Near the scene of the explosion we found three dead men, and we Wo carried them for ten yards. could hardly see for dust and amoko. The root kept falling around us. Our lamps went out, One of the carriers collapsed, over- come with gås.

On

"I felt myself going, but crawled as best I could, somehow, although there was hardly any air. ...one after another we kept fall- ing, until I remembered nothing cise,"

"Nobby," of course, does not put It so clearly as that. Each word has to be dragged from him. The man, afraid of nothing for the love of his pals, is dumb with terror when counsel sit round and make And the coroner copious notes. has to be very, very patient.

*

THE rescue man scorns praise. Ho will not finch oven If the errand upon which he has embarked may cost his own life. The supreme sacri- ico will be made in an endeavour to bring relief to the suffering, to save the lives of comrades.

The comradeship that is borri of the dark world in the bowels of the earth is a thing that will fot ever remain a mystery. It does not exist in any other job.

Of danger the rescue man has no consciousness. He belongs to a select number, whose job it is to fight the gravest possible perli.

Nevertheless, he is envied by the hundreds of men, who stand and whit in those long dreary hours when the rescue team is at work below for news of their success or, too often, of dismal faliuro against terrific odds.

There is not one of them who would not take his place, but when disaster is running its terrible course it needs the man who is trained as well as strong and courageous to deal with it.

* * *

AN "explosion" is the most awful calamity that can overtake the pit, No one can tell what ita consequences may be.

It would be madness for those still safe from the rumbling, roar- ing horror

its to venture in direction. Discipline frightful

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disciplins that senda men to safety 'when' they would turn back to savo their workmates. —- takes them along the road to the shaft.

*And if thò quivering of the earth above has not yet warned' tho. "top" of the anlamity below, the pit-head "phone_brings the dread news.

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"Rescue teamat " On Rescue teams! goes the call. Warning is flashed to the roscua stations that may be miles away.

The call is taken up. Bwift messages, frantia knockings at the door of humblo cottages, awake the men who are to do this herole job.

It needs nothing to conjure up In their minds the frightful scenes now being played out

"down there."

*

BUT while the mobilisa- tion goes on, and the race against time begins, the first team from the death pit itself is hastening. Its preparations.

Respirators, their only defence against the choking, blinding fumes they must meet below, aro quickly graspéd. Oxygen is quickly passed into the container. It can only last so long.

Goggled eyes, masked faces, and the awe-inspiring paraphernalia of the respirator slung and strapped over strong shoulders,

The rescue team is ready to fight the unknown. Their faces are set and stern, unmoved by the ordeal which they are eager to tackle for the sake of their fellow mon. With steady step the strange procession walks across the silont yard to the pilt-head and the waiting cage.

In the winding room the engine- man waits for the clang of the signal, Slowly, then quicker and quicker, the great drum revolves as the steel rope is unfoosed.

Down, down, down, down, to dangers as yet uncalculated..

** * *.

SUOH heroism is the price

of your coal. So next timo you bank up the are and sit round its cheering warmth, spare a thought for a hero who at that very moment may be trudging. dirty and despondent, back to his home.

For 30 hours he has toiled under appalling dangers, yet no thoughts of heroism fill his tired brain. He has fought against tremendous adds-yet dozens of his pals are Atill "* down there."

And to an anxious wife his only comment 1, "It's a bad do, lass,"

A bud do, Indeed.

Percy Hazel

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