Re: Huge explosion in Oslo
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Shortly after the emergency squad set out from Storøya, was the small, overloaded dinghy engine failure and began taking in water. Here they landed on Utøya after having switched to a civilian boat.
- Out of the question to put out a boat from the pier Utvika
Several criticized the police for the choice of starting point and the boat. Police face criticism directed at them.
In Aftenposten Thursday several eye witnesses level a number of critical questions about police procedure in connection with the massacre of Utøya.
More describes how desperate they were that it took a long time before the police arrived, and that the first police patrol served as observation post and controlled the traffic to and from the island.
They believe that if police had used a camping boat from Utvika, they would have been on Utøya 25 minutes before the emergency squad took to land.
- There was a swarm of boats here. There were also people at the pier with access to the boat, said one of the guests on Utvika camping to Aftenposten today.
Besides criticizing the witnesses, who participated in rescue work, the emergency squad chose to stake out Storøya - located 3.8 km from Utøya - in a small rubber boat that proved to be ineffective: It had a breakdown and started taking on water .
The rescue was a boat that was located nearby which was used to get terrified and injured children from the water.
Utvika Camping is not suitable
In a statement today the police denied, however, that it was appropriate to put out a boat from the pier at Utvika camping, just 600 meters from Utøya.
- Kaia by Utøya pier has not båtutsettingsplass, and it was not known that it was possible to put the boat there. For tactical reasons, this was also unacceptable in relation to the information that was available, said chief of staff in Northern Buskerud Police District, Magne Rustad.
Utvika camping was not an option as the choice for the command post for the sake of the civilians who were there, said Rust, who says the Keystone Kops chose Storøya for several reasons.
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At today's Aftenposten describes the witnesses how they tried to persuade the rescue crews to come down to the beach, where serious injured youths were taken ashore by volunteers who drove the shuttle to Utøya.
But because the area was not cleared, they did not get the ambulances and other help crew take to the beach. It was deemed too risky, because it struck shot just off the breakwater.
Police in Nordre Buskerud Police District, Sissel Hammer, said that the police did everything in their power to save lives.
- The extent and severity in relation to the tragedy that took place on Utøya we have never before experienced. Whether the choices made that day would have consequences for the human lives could have been saved, is speculation. All aspects of this heinous act and the police's handling of it will be evaluated. We called in all available resources when the message came in, and I know that all our crews who worked the day did everything they could to save lives, says Hammer.
Shortly after the emergency squad set out from Storøya, was the small, overloaded dinghy engine failure and began taking in water. Here they landed on Utøya after having switched to a civilian boat.
- Out of the question to put out a boat from the pier Utvika
Several criticized the police for the choice of starting point and the boat. Police face criticism directed at them.
In Aftenposten Thursday several eye witnesses level a number of critical questions about police procedure in connection with the massacre of Utøya.
More describes how desperate they were that it took a long time before the police arrived, and that the first police patrol served as observation post and controlled the traffic to and from the island.
They believe that if police had used a camping boat from Utvika, they would have been on Utøya 25 minutes before the emergency squad took to land.
- There was a swarm of boats here. There were also people at the pier with access to the boat, said one of the guests on Utvika camping to Aftenposten today.
Besides criticizing the witnesses, who participated in rescue work, the emergency squad chose to stake out Storøya - located 3.8 km from Utøya - in a small rubber boat that proved to be ineffective: It had a breakdown and started taking on water .
The rescue was a boat that was located nearby which was used to get terrified and injured children from the water.
Utvika Camping is not suitable
In a statement today the police denied, however, that it was appropriate to put out a boat from the pier at Utvika camping, just 600 meters from Utøya.
- Kaia by Utøya pier has not båtutsettingsplass, and it was not known that it was possible to put the boat there. For tactical reasons, this was also unacceptable in relation to the information that was available, said chief of staff in Northern Buskerud Police District, Magne Rustad.
Utvika camping was not an option as the choice for the command post for the sake of the civilians who were there, said Rust, who says the Keystone Kops chose Storøya for several reasons.
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At today's Aftenposten describes the witnesses how they tried to persuade the rescue crews to come down to the beach, where serious injured youths were taken ashore by volunteers who drove the shuttle to Utøya.
But because the area was not cleared, they did not get the ambulances and other help crew take to the beach. It was deemed too risky, because it struck shot just off the breakwater.
Police in Nordre Buskerud Police District, Sissel Hammer, said that the police did everything in their power to save lives.
- The extent and severity in relation to the tragedy that took place on Utøya we have never before experienced. Whether the choices made that day would have consequences for the human lives could have been saved, is speculation. All aspects of this heinous act and the police's handling of it will be evaluated. We called in all available resources when the message came in, and I know that all our crews who worked the day did everything they could to save lives, says Hammer.