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Summary:PROG 2: THE GOLDEN HOUR
This programme focuses on the development of the modern ambulance services and the changes in response to major disasters. We compare the 1952 three train pile up in Harrow in which 112 people were killed, and the changes to emergency procedures by the time of the Clapham train disaster in 1988. For the first time ambulance men treated the badly injured on the spot rather than trying to remove them to hospitals for treatment - 35 people died and 500 were injured.
Description:MOVING ACCOUNTS OF PAST AND PRESENT RESCUES TRACE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMERGENCY SERVICES.