‘Stop videoing and taking photos! Call for help’, residents told
Residents and partygoers are being told to desist from standing by to video accidents and emergencies rather than contacting officials for help.
Chief Fire Officer made this request during a recent interview with BVI News ahead of the upcoming festive season that is expected to see increased parties, alcohol consumption, and traffic.
“I have one message for all the revellers. Whenever something happens in this day and age, people pull out their phones and take pictures and take videos and post them to whatever social media outlets they have available to them. We have a couple of instances where real emergencies and the emergency has been ongoing for quite a number of minutes while there have been people on the scene using their mobile phones to take videos and pictures and none of those people use their phones to call 911 or 999,” the Fire Chief said.
“So, we are asking people, if you see a situation where we are needed or you think we are needed; instead of making a video of it to send to your friends, call us. Let us know that someone needs us, let us know that something is happening. Let us know that this is a situation where we might be able to render some assistance,” he added.
McLean recalled a recent fire at a local home where people were nearby taking videos, yet none of them called the fire department.
He said it was after nearly fifteen minutes, a resident, who was not nearby, saw smoke coming from the house and called the fire department for assistance.
And while giving an informal summary of fires that have happened in the territory this year, McLean said these events have not been deadly but have caused quite a bit of damage to the properties of victims.
He said his department will continue its public education campaign on fires for the rest of the year and hopes this will make persons more vigilant.
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We need videos for evidence also
Call first then video
Bush critters. , ,Common sense and reality ,is a foreign concept.
But ” churches” on every corner and every crab hole every body is a minister pastor bishop or all three.
What pastors and bishops have to do with common sense?
The churches on every corner causing the accidents?? If you at the scene of an accident call 911 or 999 before you resort to video taping. You need a bishop to tell you that? Strruuppes
As a man thinks in his heart, so he is, says the book written by my mentor. If you are against the church at the corner, I understand why! You are entitled to your opinion. Opinion however is never the ruler, fact is. You will end up drawing crooked lines with opinions that are far removed from facts. Get rid of the bitters. Become relevant to progress and by extension, this discussion. Do you agree that it is silly to be at am emergency scene and opt to take videos and photographs for social media sensation rather than calling 911 or doing anything possible to save lives and properties?
THIS IS NOT ONLY A PLEA FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. IT’S FOR ALL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS. I HAVE SEEN THIS PERSONALLY WHERE THERE WAS A SERIOUS ACCIDENT AND POLICE NOT IN UNIFORM VIDEO TAPING IT. WHERE IT TOOK AN OFFICE DUTY OFFICER COMING FROM THE BEACH TO STOP AND ASKED IF THE POLICE WAS CALLED AND CALLED FOR THE STATION FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF THE POLICE AND AMBULANCE. MIND THIER COLLEGUE WAS THERE AS I SAID VIDEOING IT.I CAN TELL YOU WHEN THAT OFFICER DONE WITH THE COLLEGUE ON THE SPOT I MYSELF HAD FEEL IT. THE OFFICER LET THE COLLEGUE KNOW YOU WANT TO ACT LIKE AN A** AND BRING BAD NAME TO THE POLICE FORCE WELL I GO DISH IT OUT TO YOU HERE AND NOW.WELL DONE OFFICER. (SHE KNOWS WHO SHE IS). ONLY A FEW GOOD ONES IN THERE AND A BVISLANDER SHE IS.
These idiots copy everything they see in the mainstream world so good luck with that! The days when Caribbean People had their own identity and real culture are long gone. These days if you are not acting the a** and taping every moment of your life then posting it for millions to see, while saying “everyone needs to mind their business”….then you aren’t in anything. Sad state of affairs!
so what to do after you call for help, because most people do call for help then record!! stop tell people what to do with their private belongings
Your post contains no wisdom at all..at all.
Very much a statement of the society.
Society buddy
Low lifes