| CIVIL DEFENCE EXERCISE Disaster Drill at Highrise Office Building | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5029 | |
| Catalog #: | 364826 | |
| Clip Number: | 364826-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 68/67 | |
| Timecode: | 01:26:14 - 01:27:49 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1968 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Skyscraper HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Emergency Treatment LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London SAFETY: Civil Defense SAFETY: Drill SAFETY: Workplace | |
| Description: | EMERGENCY EXERCISE STAGED IN CITY OF LONDON Disaster drill: London's emergency workers and employees of the city's tallest building practiced evacuation and emergency procedures in case an airplane happened to crash into the building. Civil defence emergency exercise and evacuation carried out at BP House London Various shots people walking down ramps evacuating their offices at British Petroleum building. M/S building, pan to people leaving offices. C/U office workers walking down ramps. C/U diagram showing an aircraft which has crashed into the top two floors of the building. M/S office evacuation showing smoke. Various shots smoke coming from office windows. C/U office workers filing past. L/S crowd of office workers in front of building. C/U pan ambulance arriving. C/U vehicle with flashing light marked Control Unit. C/U fireman using walkie-talkie. M/S pan to top of building showing fireman on extended ladder. C/U fireman. M/S man being rescued from building and hanging on top of ladder. L/S crowd of people outside building. M/S foam hoses being directed onto another building where wing is supposed to have landed. C/U fireman. C/U mass of foam on ground. C/U two firemen in respirators covered with foam. M/S foam on the ground. M/S 'injured' person being carried on stretcher. M/S nurses holding up bags of fluid. M/S injured on stretcher surrounded by doctors and nurses. M/S as he is carried off to ambulance. M/S as man has head bandaged. L/S ambulances. M/S as another victim is carried off. M/S ambulance going away with sirens blaring, pan up to surrounding buildings. | |
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