Firefighters honoured for brave rescues
Published: November 28, 2007
THREE South Wales firefighters have been honoured for acts of bravery while on duty.
Mark Dodds and Rob Adams, who work on Blue Watch at Barry Fire Station, were called to Aberthaw Quarry, where a woman had threatened suicide before losing consciousness on the edge of a 100ft drop.
Rigged with ropes and harnesses, Rob caught the woman before she slipped and held onto her as she hung over the edge of the quarry for 10 minutes.
Mr Dodds rushed to his colleague’s aid and the pair then lowered the unconscious woman, and themselves, down the quarry face and into the quarry.
Both then performed CPR on the woman, who had stopped breathing, until paramedics arrived.
Another firefighter who was honoured was James Haskell, who works at Ely Fire Station.
He was called to a house fire in Canton where an unconscious man was trapped in a loft conversion.
Mr Haskell managed to break into the room and, along with a colleague, rescued him.
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