The Unfolding Of A Gruesome Scene

Shadows Of Mayday #15: Recovering the victims #1: Emergency teams arrived and the salvaging of victims started

Image by Thomas Breher from Pixabay

This story is a work of fiction, and the author’s tribute to all victims of air crashes. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Sounds of sirens filled the air as the emergency vehicles drew closer to the wreckage of the crashed plane. Only the flashing of the blue and red lights remained as the noise stopped.

People spilled from the insides of the vehicles and started their emergency procedures. Their priority was to look for survivors, but before they could do that, the fire teams had to extinguish the fires. They soon dampened the smoldering and safeguarded the remaining kerosene in the fuel tanks.

Once the firefighters had done their part, the teams of emergency workers moved in.

In five teams, they worked the crash site — two teams from the back of the plane, one on each side and two teams from the front, also one on each side. A fifth team checked for safety before they entered the front and the back parts of the plane.

The part of the aircraft behind the wings had broken into pieces. The tailpiece was intact, as was the cockpit, the business class area and part of the economic class.

Each member of the teams wore a hard hat, with a light on it to illuminate their own way. It was pitch-dark out in the desert and the coastal road had no lights. Neither were there any lights on inside the plane.

On their first scan, the emergency people found no survivors. A more intense search started as soon as more emergency workers arrived.