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[me_54m]

Rings removed

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to cut gold rings off the finger of an elderly woman.

The 80-year-old stroke victim was suffering from pain after swelling in her finger.

Firefighters from Cleckheaton Fire Station were called to Peaseland Road in Cleckheaton by the woman’s carer on Friday night.

They used specialist cutting gear to remove the three rings.

Is the correct thing to do not just to go to a jewellers or if its dier then A&E.

....Apparently not its happened here too http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/Firefighters-cut-ring-to-free.5267721.jp

£5.99 on ebay I'm sure the ambulance can afford them and thats it - theres more fambulances than fire engines so its not as silly.

[midnight]

I think its pretty common for the fire brigade to be the ones to remove the ring if it is very tight. This could be due to lack of proper equipment in the NHS but it could also be due to the training the fire-fighters have with the equipment so its probably easier, quicker and safer for them to do it then for paramedics.

£5.99 on ebay I'm sure the ambulance can afford them and thats it - theres more fambulances than fire engines so its not as silly.

Also I don't think the ambulances can afford them for a number of reasons. Mainly the factt that the NHS don't buy from sites like EBAY and I doubt that ebay would have enough to supply all the ambulances. There is also the face that even if they did buy it from ebay and there was enough at £5.99 each and to get for all the ambulances it would cost the NHS a fortune. They are struggling to provide cancer treatment for all the cancer sufferers so I don't think they should be spending money on this equipment and the training the staff would need to use it when instead they have the fire brigade who already have equipment to do the job and the training needed.

[me_54m]

My mums engagement ring got soap powder under it and her finger swelled up so she went to where it was bought from (like +20 years earlier) and they cut it off for free and then repaired it for her (she had to pay for that but it wasn't all that much i don't think).

Where I live we have one fire engine (well theres another one thats meant to be pulled by horses - but i don't think they have the horses any more ) and thats 'a community fire station' so where the fire fighters have a proper job as well as been a firefighter. So I think its rather inappropriate for them to be going to cut a ring of an old woman down narrow streets with a fire engine - when there could be a fire elsewhere and then they would have to send the fire engine from the next town along which will then increase the time and what not. When theres always ambulances about and they can get round more easily.