Rescue Reconnaissance (sound)

e [Music] hey hey you two women there come that run dead don't you know someone may be bed there rescue part's on his way you leave it to them why they get a move on all right all right come down that okay number six party from Central DEA right well there's your job three houses are down as far as we can tell seven people are missing wardens are searching the neighborhood now for casualties there's a free casualty just around that corner not too bad but You' better take a look at him first ambulance loading points just behind your vehicle yes should be all right there you'll get some more information from the warden on the spot uh Warden Jones let me know if you want reinforcements right ja take Bill and check up on a free casualty around that corner ambulance loading points behind our vehicle and clear a path along that okay Frank how many buried here as far as I can make out about seven two families in these two houses there's another family in the corner house but they were in their shelter and escaped that's two families of seven people all told how many in each family there's one family of three adults and two children there house next to the crater there's another family of mother and daughter in the house of the got the Direct Hit The Neighbors say that the mother always took her daughter out to the shelter what about the other family were they in there their shelter not as far as we can make out any other details yes it's h damage no fire or gas oh but there's a point to remember although the crat is so near the road I can find no signs of cold gas or flooding when did it happen uh 1615 that's 25 minutes ago Frank the warden's taken the free casy the first aid post good see if we can get to the rear of the site deck through one of those houses okay Frank they're like the other houses are they no basements that's right no basements except the end house but that family is okay let me see two families in these two houses this one family of five likely to be in house that one mother and daughter likely to be in shelter that's the layout isn't it that's about it freak has to be gone the first a post right stand by Bill well there's not much to go on but I'll just have a look around can you get any more details where's the shelter it's in the back y I see have you got a plan of the site and a household register but they haven't come up from the post yet but I'll hurry them up oh I can't get much out of that family on the corner perhaps the woman will remember more when she's had a cup of tea good stand by then Frank we can get through number 70 all right good well as far as I can make out Jack there are two families buried here about seven people all toe you take Bill and Jim to the rear of the site through number 70 there's a shelter somewhere around there probably got a mother and child in it but before you look for it I want you to help me listen for the other family in this house I'll cover the front with the rest of the party Bill Jim you go with Jack rest of you come with me up I've got some more news for you about that second family the Browns the husband was on night shift so he's almost certain to have been upstairs in bed and there are two children in the family maybe in the shelter that's the family in this house isn't it that's right right well I'm going to listen for any signs of life so ask the incident officer to keep everybody quiet when I signal for a silence period right there are five people Beed here somewhere and we're going to listen for them Arthur you get in that corner there by that collapsed floor will I'm by side of that beam that looks to run well in George you get down by that tank there may be some pipes still connected and running up to that you know that'll carry any sound well that's right Lads that's right jack Jim ought to pick up something from there you're okay Bill now you come a bit nearer to me down beside that wall that's right looks to me like the backro ceiling there the old man was probably in bed so he may be under that Ren silence period Please quiet quiet everybody please already right hello anyone there got anything Lads no okay try to call where you are Jack all right listen again Lads okay Jack anyone there right jack can't hear anything here nothing here either well we'll have to try for the shelter have you noticed anything no nothing I can see well as you're on that side try and locate the shelter with Bill and Jim while I get some more saxs can't hear anything here L you three clear way through number 70 inent officer nothing yet I'll need some more information get Mrs Brown and grny out instead of messing about over there this may give us something no no mother it's all right they're just doing their job properly you tell us about your friends and we'll soon have them out well what do you want to know did Mrs Andrew and her daughter go to their shelter oh yes she went regular like she was a bit anxious about Rosie especially after her husband got caught in one of those tip and run raids now mother where's that shelter the shelter why that is in the backyard up against the wall same as the Browns was there's the sector plan leader there's the wall Mrs Clark's talking about good we'll try for the shelters first while you're getting some more facts would the brown shelter be in the same line Warden yep in the backyard they're all Anderson in this road right now is this dark you come and sit down while I ask you a few questions where do you think Mr and Mrs Brown were before the bomb fell well I don't quite know but granny not my grandmother but we all called her granny she'd be a got Jack no Frank nothing in this shter that must be the brown shelter Jim get off and will now Mrs Clark says the Andrew shelters in the next yard about four yards away there's the line at the Andrew's house so the shelter must be about there we'll try here LED here's a bit of luck here's the front of the shelter just a minute listen all right Kitty we'll soon have you out is your mom with you she's sleeping that's all right you let her sleep what's your name kitty it's awful cold NE you mind Rose we'll be giving you a nice hot cup of tea in a minute is anyone else there no only me and Mom okay Rosie you just rest a bit now we're going to move some bricks away and it'll make a bit of noise but don't be frightened Rosie you just talk to old jack up here say hello Jack hello Jack hello Rosie we'll soon get you out keep a picker up Jack now this job looks pretty straightforward I'm going to leave it to you while I check up on the other family pleas clear the entrance and keep an eyee open for the woman she's probably knocked out okay Frank come on lad start we're here George you get a stretcher with will we found a child in the shelter giv her name is Rose is that Mrs Andrews daughter yes yes that's Rosie Andrews is she hurt poor little thing no no she'll be all right Mrs Andrew is in there too according to Rose unconscious by the looks of it they'll be out in a few minutes now good the ambulance is waiting for them now uh that leaves us the other family granny Brown Mr and Mrs Brown and the two children Jill and Jones hey keep off that shite don't you know there are people buried there can you stop these damn Dey crawlers uh Warden keep the people off the site now there's two brown kids as Rosa got back from school it's likely they did too but just in case can you check up they didn't shelter with friends on the way home yes I'll do that I want about Mr Mrs Brown he was on night shift they say where would he be sleeping uh Mrs Clark Mrs Clark tells me that he slept in the front bedroom but she can tell you herself while I sent a warden to check up on the brown kids good uh Warden Smith now Mrs Clark what you know about the Browns where did Mr Brown sleep why up in the top front room didn't he D I see and where was Mrs Brown Ivy Brown I expect she was with granny granny was that poorly she couldn't get her tea like she used to do now where was granny Mrs Clark don't downstairs in the front room wasn't she that's it she'd be sitting by the fire which side of the fireplace bad didn't granny always sit in the corner by the window yes that's right on the left H I see I was still not sure about Mrs Brown and the two children did you see them come home from school Mrs Clark no I never saw them did you Dad inent officer is there anyone else we can question any other neighbors for instance Warden anyone else likely to know anything yes it's Mrs Dukes two doors down there I've Just Seen Her Go in good I'll see Mrs Jukes and look over her house at the same time but I'll just check up on my party first take the leader to Mrs dues when he gets back okay I'll wait for him here how's it going just getting down to the entrance we should have him out in a few minutes good work we got to make room for the stretcher here right carry on like that I'm going two doors down the road how's the kid oh bearing not fine good carry on Jack okay Frank anyone about who's this Warden Jones here Mrs Jukes what do you want I've got the rescue party leader with me can you tell me Mrs Jukes Where Mrs Brown and her children were just before the bomb fell now don't you worry Mr Dukes we'll find them all right but if you can tell me where they were we'll find them all the quicker now did you see the two children come home from school well now I couldn't rightly say young Elfie that's my he's a bit poly I was in the back room with him but I seem to remember hearing J call out yes can't to think of it I'm sure I did when was that why just before the bomb what about the rest of the family well Mr Brown he'd have been in bed he's been on night shift you know and Granny Brown well she'd have been having her cap of tea she'd be sitting in the front room and in Mr Brown's bedroom now their houses are same type as yours isn't it can you show me where Mr Brown's bed would have been yes come inside and I'll show you thank you you mustn't mind the house it's is this Tate I wouldn't like nobody to see and that's the fact oh don't worry about that Mrs Dukes they used to sleep in the back room but granny couldn't manage his stairs so I moved to the front and Granny sleeps downstairs now I help Mrs Brown move the SE and this is where we put the B right I've got that now let's look at the rest of the house let me see your house has two doors down so the layout's the same as the Browns staircase on the same side flimsy woodwork not much chance of that protecting anybody well thanks Mrs dues that's helped a lot and if you can think of anything will you tell the incident officer you know he's a bloke for the blue cover on his helmet yes I will I'm going to take a look at this C okay I'll give this rescue who's this take her easy Lads this is Rosy's mother at the same shelter how is she she's unconscious well done Jack what about the kid where's she Bill's taking her over there look have you questioned her not yet haven't had a chance she's still a bit dazed right I'll have a word with her about the brown kid is you get Mrs Andrews on right Mrs Jes tells me she thought Jill Brown came home can't find the two brown children anywhere looks as though Mrs Jukes is right I'll talk to Rosie they may have come back with her well how's the kitty is she all right yes I think so hello Rosie I see you've got that cup of tea I promise you that'll warm you up now tell me Rosie did you see Jill and Joe go into the house when you went to the shelter come along darling tell him what you know come along Deary did you see Jill and Joe go home they didn't come home didn't they where did they go then to see Peter's rabbits and where does Peter live Newbery street by the water good and what's Peter's other name Rosie Peter Arnold that's a good girl now Mrs Clark will look after you come along bill can you check up on Joe and Jill brown rose says they went to see Peter Arnold lives in newbry street by the static water tank oh and Rose ought to be sent to First Aid post yes right away thanks oh uh Lita here's another detail for you someone heard Mrs Brown call out to a passer by from the front window just before the bomb fell said something about the kids in tend to once you made a dive under the table or something is there any heavy Furniture in that front room yes it's a table between the window and the corner where the grandmother set I see any other details come up no nothing that helps well we'll see what we can do D let's take over the site uh Smith check up whether Jill and Joe Brown in New Street see the children stay that or somebody calls for them now let's see as far as we know Mr Brown was in bed upstairs in a front room on the far side of the house granny was sitting downstairs in the front room on this side Mrs Brown's probably with her maybe both under the table anyway likely to be on this side right we'll post for silence period Jack you take the front down there by that tank Bill Jim you come up here now here's The Parting wall it's Fallen the way from the room so they must be on that side of it Jim you get in that void there bill you get over there that to be the back of the roof that's right jack come on lad will you get down by that beam again see if you can get further in this time George that look safe you see that void there around the back of the room get in there as far as you can Arthur go where you were before all right George okay Frank silence period Please silence period quiet everybody please already right alur try call there anyone there got anything Jin you try a call anyone there any luck right you try hello there any luck this time right you hear anything I fancy I did but I'm not quite sure what was it a tapping of some kind try another call Jack listen again Lads okay anyone there bill you call twice as loud as you can listen everyone okay hello can you here mate nothing doing jack we'll have to make a stop will and author get Shovel and gloves now we've got two adults on that side of the house and one adult on that side and the two children may be there somewhere we got to find the pavement level and work in square you take Bill round to the rear of the site Jack and see what you can do from there the rest of you stop here in the front no sign I'm afraid we'll have to clear the debris now we've got as far as this we shall want another party right found Jo and Jo Brown they're at Nu Street all right good thanks Wen well that clears that leader it's only three adults now yes well we have a pretty good idea where they should be we've started in off them already well I've got another incident to look at let Jones know how things go and he keep in touch with me right smort need another rescue Bo the brown kites are all right good that's fine we've only got the three adults now coming a bit closer and work in here from the side right what's your looking Jim pretty quiet nothing doing good now don't say you've been working come strange to you mate wouldn't it what you got for us tonight Paul got a surprise for you boy it's a nice Bri spam I'll put some on Fresh Won't Take 5 minutes cor anybody think we look like bloody tins and put some sauce on it for it's better than beans anyway give us some tea love just to wash the dust down you could do it it beautiful sort of a job was it J L A bad elf pretty good considering we got them all out all five of them three of them alive at that and not 10 yards away from the crater either good work how'd you get them out well mother and daughter were in the shelter at the back the other three were buried in the house no basement so we at the F payment level and work in square they were there all right in the front room just like Frank said they'd be take you long too bloody long if you ask me what I can't understand is why we had a scretch a bait in the roadway while Frank was talking to the wardens what you expect us to do Bill clear each brick in the place before we knows who's there fine mess we'd be in then that's not right I tell you standing a bait talking with people buried what finished already no Po's cooking a fresh for us what's to Frank thanks George that was a nice job of yours on the shelter Jack got them out pretty quick I thought nothing to it Frank it was easy now look Frank why didn't we go to work on the Andrew Sher straight away that's right before the first silence period now look haven't your Lads ever heard of reconnaissance of course we have but it's not right to stand B talking with people buried right let's start from the beginning thanks George now you and Jim say we ought have gone straight out to the Andrew shelter well that's fair enough the shelter's the first place to look for as a rule and usually the easiest to find but just think for a moment what I was told this is all the dope I got from the incident officer about the two buried families well there's your job three houses are down as far as we can tell seven people are missing wardens are searching the neighborhood now for casualties oh there's a free casual around that corner he's not too bad but You' better take a look at him first well that's all I knew and I'll put you to clearing the pavement and checking up on the free casualty wasn't much was it and short of stripping the whole site it gave me no clue where to start searching for casualties Bo couldn't he tell you more than that then Frank well George an incident officer isn't often on the spot in time to see the bomb fall no he's got to get his information about the incident from the warden or whoever's first there so anything he told me this afternoon would probably be secondhand you know how much better it is to get fact straight from the horse's mouth well he gave me a general idea of the job and then told me to find out details myself from the warden yes that's all right Frank but I mean why didn't we get straight onto the shelter after you had spoken to the warden what you mean why did I call for silence period first yes that's it but it was like this Jim the warden couldn't give me many details after all this was all he could tell me the whereabouts of the two buried families there's one family of three adults and two children there house next to the crater there's another family of mother and daughter in the house that got the Direct Hit The Neighbors say that the mother always took her daughter out to the shelter well that wasn't much to go on but it did tell me that there were probably several people buried in the house now if one of those people had been conscious he could most likely have told us where the rest were so it seemed worthwhile to me to delay the rescue at at the shelter for a couple of minutes that's all it was 2 minutes while we listened around the Brown's house and I'd do the same thing again in any job like it wouldn't you jack yes I reckon I would if you're lucky a silent Spirit the beginning of the job may clear up the whole thing and save days of work I'm with you there Jack I remember one job we were on Old Sparks Place remember Bert they didn't tell us much about it when we got there so we had a solent spared right from the start so we did out we got a reply from some bloke the general found him in a Cupboard wasn't he General yes down in the bloody basement that's it he told us everyone else was in a reinforced back room we had them all late and everything Ticky boo in half an hour yes I was on that job myself that's all very well but Bo couldn't the wardens tell us this afternoon where the people were that's a warden's job that's right it's a warden's job now will give him a chance we was on the job pretty soon after the bum fell that's so and I thought the warden gave me a pretty fair picture considering after all he was probably down near it when it went off and he's got a lot to do before he can even start questioning people well people would tell him beforeand where they're going to be yeah but people don't always know where a bomb's going to fall on them do they that's the warden's job I tell you Frank wouldn't it a safe time if the warden question the old girl first well Mrs Dukes do you mean no I spoke to her myself so as to have a look at the house at the same time this was important because Mrs juke's house being two doors down the road had the same layout as the brown stairs were on the same side flimsy woodwork not much chance of death protecting anybody you see it showed me what the stairs were worth and that the houses had L and plaster walls not much protection in that for the Browns though it did mean a light a load of stuff on them yes not much weight in L than plaster no now it's that kind of detail which is so important in rescue work and you can hardly expect a warden to spot it no that's true that's our job but you knew where other brains were after you spoke to Mrs Dukes didn't you Frank yes George roughly well then couldn't we have started to get a mate before he spoke to Rosie well we still didn't know for sure about the brown kids which was only the old people we had any idea about and by checking up on the kids it might have made the work easier that's why I spoke to Rosie she was the most likely person to know where they were because she probably went to school with them children are often pretty good about information if they're handled right but it doesn't do to believe everything you're told this is what Mrs duuk told me about Jill and Joe Brown but I seem to remember hearing J call out yes come to think of this I'm sure I did when was that why just before the bomb you see Mrs Dukes told me she heard Jill Brown come home and all the time the brown kids were in a friend's house a mile away You' got to sort out the information you get what are you going to tell tell then whether to believe someone or not I come now George use youra yes you can sun to well it's not always as easy as that do you remember the tenby street incident yes we spent four bloody days on that job yes now there's a case of being told a bit of positive information later on finding it was all wrong remember we dug for a bloke for 3 days we'd been told he was in the back room of a neighbor's house but we couldn't find him even after clearing a Lane right through the place and moving tons of stuff so we started in next door I was beginning to think we should have to strip the whole sight then Arthur you found him just beyond the pavement in front of his own house he must have been going in at the front door not at the back of his neighbor's house as we were told wasted days that did and during the blitz when we were pretty short of parties too yes a bit more detail on jobs like that would save us all hours of work that's true elf you can't have too many details another thing too sometimes we're in such a hurry we take silly risks that's right remember that job at the back of that pubj what was it the Blue Angel that's right the Blue Angel you and me were going to the shelters and it nearly dropped in US touch and go that was a little more of that re you know what I mean would have made all the difference there it certainly taught me a l yes you're right there Arthur wasn't much danger for any of us this after do because it was Daylight and we could see the nasty spots at once but at night it's never very easy to see these things it's our job to find out which places are not safe and keep everyone away from them look right our job what the use of spending after the yes yes I know you'll all of you go rushing onto a job without looking or thinking break your bloody necks and everybody else will then be happy but remember this when one of you gets injured we haven't just lost a skilled man's help we've got an extra casualty to deal with we can't thought that kind of hold up on the job avoid unnecessary Risk by the way I saw one or two of you smoking on the job today that's risky too H I was thinking that factory job we were on some time ago it took a long time to check up on that job before getting down to work maybe George a job of that size takes time to check up on anyway but while you're getting the low down on the people concerned you can keep half an eye on the site and look out for danger spots you can save a lot of time and trouble by finding out at the beginning which parts of the building are safe there's another thing about frame buildings too and that is there's much more chance of voids being formed now there weren't any basements at the job this afternoon so it was less likely that any of the casualties would have been in a fair void and able to move or speak but if anyone of them had been conscious we should probably have heard from them right away so we kept our silence period short but at the factory job there are voids and basements all over the place so we spent a lot of time on silence periods yes and we got a good number of replies from different parts it was Will who put us onto the main lot of trap people remember will you found that pipe leading down to The Cellar useful singer pipe sound carries well on it sa this hours of work getting straight onto him like that pity we never found it sooner might have saved even more time hey Frank yes there and if I had Spent A Little More Time On reconnaissance we would have found them sooner yes that's all right for us we can understand it's necessary but what about the people R about do you think you're going to put up with all this messing rain it's right Frank you never heard what Mrs Clark said when me and Arthur were clearing A Passage through number 70 this afternoon why don't they get Mrs Brown and the B over there yes it's all very well talking and it will because we stopped and questioned her to save five or 6 hours work for at that time I thought old man Brown was in the back bedroom that would have meant clearing the back of the site to find him now Mrs Clark what you know about the Browns where did Mr Brown sleep why up in the top front room didn't he Dave I see yes reconnaissance may seem slow to people looking on but it's absolutely essential that's right thing it's our responsibility and we can't afford to be bothered by what other people think it's never any good rushing madly at a job and clearing the first piece of debris you come across what you want to do is to find out all you can about the site work to a plan and stick to it it's results that count yes you're certainly right I suppose you're right Frank Come and Get It boys okay poet he we can do with it love H that certainly makes you think but seems to make sense after all yeah let a man of each din know Frank bre can hold yourself R this thanks Paul thanks Paulie