Positivity: Surviving, after Being Trapped in Trench under Tons of Earth
‘Thanks for pulling my brother out alive’
16 October 2006
THE brother of a builder who was trapped under tonnes of earth has thanked the emergency services who saved his life.
Will Carter, 15, was overjoyed when he heard 40 firefighters had managed to haul his brother, Danny, out of the 12-foot trench he was trapped in.
The painfully slow rescue took five hours, but the schoolboy is just happy his brother didn’t suffocate.
‘I’m thankful that there were so many people helping get my brother out,’ he said. ‘I know that most times someone is trapped like that, it is usually a body they are searching for in the rubble – he’s very lucky that it wasn’t so deep.
‘He is happy now that he’s out; he was quite shocked when he was pulled out and is grateful to everyone that helped get him out.’
Danny’s legs were trapped by a shovel as the team frantically dug to stop the soil burying him.
When he was finally freed from the trench, in Devonshire Square, Southsea, on Thursday, he was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham with suspected broken legs.
But the lucky builder, from Varney Avenue, Romsey, only suffered restricted blood flow to the legs and no broken bones.
Will, of Kinver Close, Romsey, said: ‘We were quite shocked. He’s taken a few days days off work to let his leg get better, but he seems to be getting better quite quickly. It wasn’t that bad. His leg went purple, but it’s all right now and he’s on the mend.’
