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Un bombero de Madrid: "El 85% de las salidas son para abrir puertas porque la gente se está muriendo sola"
[Spanish] https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2020/04/06/5e8ae2cbfdddff15aa8b4631.html
A firefighter from Madrid: "85% of the exits are to open doors because people are dying alone"
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[ According to EFE [Press Agency], practically all the exits from the park these days are to open the doors of the homes of the people who are dying at home so that the toilets can enter and take the body away. "There are people who are alone, they are not hospitalized, they call on the phone and tell them to stay at home and they don't do the test. They end up dying without attention," laments José, who in a single day comments that they came to do 20 exits related to deaths from coronavirus .
Before acting, the firefighters attend calls from family members who warn because the person has not answered for many days or from neighbors who warn of the bad smell coming from a house. "There has not been another crisis like it, this break in people's lives is the strongest we have ever experienced. I can't imagine anything that could have been like this, maybe the war," he says... ]
[ He highlights the seriousness with which his colleagues are taking it and the precautions that are now being taken to avoid infections. An example of how the way of operating firefighters has changed that in a routine departure from before due to a water break or something simple took an hour. Now they have to spend almost three hours to disinfect everything: access to the house, its equipment, the car cabin, its boots ... ]
[Spanish] https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2020/04/06/5e8ae2cbfdddff15aa8b4631.html
A firefighter from Madrid: "85% of the exits are to open doors because people are dying alone"
https://translate.google.es/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2020/04/06/5e8ae2cbfdddff15aa8b4631.html
[ According to EFE [Press Agency], practically all the exits from the park these days are to open the doors of the homes of the people who are dying at home so that the toilets can enter and take the body away. "There are people who are alone, they are not hospitalized, they call on the phone and tell them to stay at home and they don't do the test. They end up dying without attention," laments José, who in a single day comments that they came to do 20 exits related to deaths from coronavirus .
Before acting, the firefighters attend calls from family members who warn because the person has not answered for many days or from neighbors who warn of the bad smell coming from a house. "There has not been another crisis like it, this break in people's lives is the strongest we have ever experienced. I can't imagine anything that could have been like this, maybe the war," he says... ]
[ He highlights the seriousness with which his colleagues are taking it and the precautions that are now being taken to avoid infections. An example of how the way of operating firefighters has changed that in a routine departure from before due to a water break or something simple took an hour. Now they have to spend almost three hours to disinfect everything: access to the house, its equipment, the car cabin, its boots ... ]
