I'm writing a short story in which I've dropped a tree on a character. The two chainsaws are under the tree along with the victim who is rapidly dying - he was unwisely trying to cut out one stuck saw with the other when disaster struck - the tree rolled and crushed him. I've managed to get the air ambulance paramedics on the scene but now I'm wondering how the emergency services/fire brigade would go about moving the tree from the victim. Bring their own saws and cut him out? Borrow a tractor from the landowner? Or some kind of jacking system?
The victim is going to die and this will be blatantly obvious to the attending paramedic - there's enough blood to suggest that somewhere under the tree is a chainsaw injury as well as the fact that a massive tree across the torso will generally do for most people.
The victim's sister, also a trained tree surgeon and my MC, is on site but probably not in a fit state to cut her own brother out from under a tree even if she had a saw. There is a supernatural element to this story in a 'the woodland killed him' kind of way.
It probably doesn't affect the answers much but my story is set in the UK.
Edited to add - vehicles can't access the site easily. A tractor could but probably not a fire truck. My MC could go get the tractor if she can stay calm that long...
The victim is going to die and this will be blatantly obvious to the attending paramedic - there's enough blood to suggest that somewhere under the tree is a chainsaw injury as well as the fact that a massive tree across the torso will generally do for most people.
The victim's sister, also a trained tree surgeon and my MC, is on site but probably not in a fit state to cut her own brother out from under a tree even if she had a saw. There is a supernatural element to this story in a 'the woodland killed him' kind of way.
It probably doesn't affect the answers much but my story is set in the UK.
Edited to add - vehicles can't access the site easily. A tractor could but probably not a fire truck. My MC could go get the tractor if she can stay calm that long...
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