Come at me king of heroes12/17/2023 ![]() But surely we can’t go on making the same old mistakes. What they all had in common was that they seemed to accept the way things are and offered little insight as to why we have reached this sorry state or how we could make things better. Most tried to paint a positive picture of the past year (and I admit it wasn’t all negative) and offered hopeful messages for this one, although the word ‘challenging’ appeared in quite a few articles. I also added my bit of doom and gloom as well. In the run up to Christmas, The Lincolnite published a series of end of year thoughts from local worthies about the year just ending and about the prospects for 2023. I wonder whether some of us feel as euphoric now as we appeared to be some thirty years ago. It looks as if that ‘enemy’ never really went away. We thought we knew who the enemy was back then and it came as a massive relief and surprise to many of us when the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe seemed to indicate that our western way of doing things appeared to have triumphed and the nightmare prospect of a nuclear Holocaust was finally over. I and my fellow baby boomers spent a good deal of the time after WW2 worrying about WW3. He began as the pet of Neil Woodmansey’s stepson, and was brought to Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue in a bid to improve his obedience as a young pup.Ģ023 is my eightieth year and, in many ways, our country has changed so much since I came along. The story of Colin is even more remarkable, though. By the end of the day it really does get you down.”Īnother Colin on the mission, Colin the dog, became somewhat of a local celebrity during his time out in Turkey, searching far and wide for missing people and even picking up a paw injury and missing tooth along the way for his troubles. “That’s the part that has affected me most, telling people you couldn’t help them, moving on, rinse and repeat. “In this country we would stick at a job until it is complete, but when you are in a situation like that you have to focus on saveable lives – it’s a remarkably tough decision. The scale of it is just out of this world. “The roads were cracked so we couldn’t drive certain routes, and once you got to the city we were working in, it was absolutely mind-blowing. Sleaford Fire Station’s Crew Manager Colin Calam was another of Lincolnshire’s firefighters to head out to Turkey, and he recalls seeing the damage get worse and worse the closer you got to the centre of the city. They have now shared their experiences of the harrowing scenes in Turkey, collectively agreeing that it is unlike anything they have seen before.Ĭolin Calam of Sleaford Fire Station. The Lincolnshire team were sent out to Turkey on Tuesday, February 7 and returned to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 15. The earthquakes measured at 7.5 and 7.8 on the Richter scale, with a reported 41,000 fatalities as a result of the horrifying natural disaster. They were Group Manager Ashley Hildred, usually based at Nettleham, Sleaford Crew Manager Colin Calam, Lincoln South Crew Manager Mark Dungworth and experienced dog handler Neil Woodmansey, with his search dog Colin. Four Lincolnshire firefighters and Colin the search dog have returned home after their deployment to Turkey, assisting the victims of the devastating earthquakes.Īs part of an international search and rescue mission to help survivors of the two large earthquakes in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras, four Lincolnshire firefighters were deployed with a 76-strong team from the UK.
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