Man who was burned in electric shock at Wolverhampton building reunited with ambulance crew
Darren Harris has been reunited with ambulance crew four years after suffering significant burns when he was electrocuted at an abandoned building in Wolverhampton.
Video: West Midlands Ambulance Service
Video: West Midlands Ambulance Service
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00:00During lockdown I was struggling financially for funds. I went to scrapping the illegal scrap metal
00:05out of old abandoned buildings that were getting demolished. Unfortunately I put my left arm into
00:09an 11kv switchboard which completely melted my forearms down to the bone. You can see the floor
00:14through it, the bicep was hanging off, the tricep was hanging off. I ran in front of the ambulance
00:18and sort of flagged it down. They already had the call through but they were unsure where I was
00:22and I managed to flag the ambulance down with my arms out high. Both faces of the
00:26paramedics were white as a ghost. We both looked at each other both Matt and I and we were like
00:32where do we start? Your arms are just completely exploded. Let's get them dressed first,
00:39let's give you something for the pain. I was on the radio going just send me everybody,
00:44just send me everyone and then everyone turned up. Any job that we go to you're there to try
00:50and advocate for the patient and do the best possible job you can and that's what we did.
00:55Anything where you get this massive kind of surge of electrical current going through causing such
00:59extensive sort of tissue injury and stuff, the likelihood is you're probably not going to leave
01:05hospital so to see you now two years later doing so fantastically well is unbelievable. It's a very
01:11special moment for me for this today and it means a hell of a lot. Without these guys and without
01:15this crew I just genuinely wouldn't be here today and they'll always have a special place in my heart.