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Re: Girl dies after being hit by falling tree branch

Subject: Re: Girl dies after being hit by falling tree branch
From: Jerry Ross
Date: Jul 01 2011 10:37:26 
The Telegraph gives more detail

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8610392/13-year-old-girl-crushed-by-tree-during-teacher-strike.html
Rather distasteful that the paper links the tragedy to the strike, as if
it was all the fault of those callous, uncaring union militants.
Also I see that as usual "the remains of the one-foot thick branch have
been cut down and taken away. "
(The Telegraph have it as a 'giant' branch in their lead paragraph, but
let that pass... )
My concern is that the evidence has been removed and in all probability
will be lost...
There really should be a set of guidelines as to how the authorities
should react when a tree failure results in a serious incident: DON'T
remove all the material until it's all been recorded and photographed
(especially the point of failure); DO try to get a suitably qualified
person to look at it before the debris is cleared - and it should be an
independent one: not the chain-saw operative employed to cut the thing
up, and probably not the person who may have been responsible for
maintaining the trees. 
And DON'T do a knee-jerk felling of all the trees in the vicinity.
It's sounds so callous to bring these things up in the immediate
aftermath of a tragedy. Which is all the more reason have a document
that could be issued to the emergency services and local authorities,
and made available for all tree managers, outlining best practice in
dealing with major tree incidents. 

Another one for the Arb Association perhaps.





A Poplar that was 'pollarded' last autumn

On 01/07/2011 11:08, Bettina Broadway-Mann wrote:

Dear All,
here are the basics of a news item just mentioned on the BBC radio news.
No more details yet,
regards, 
Bettina







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