Man who was burned in electric shock at Wolverhampton building reunited with ambulance crew

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Darren Harris has been reunited with ambulance crew four years after suffering significant burns when he was electrocuted at an abandoned building in Wolverhampton. Video: West Midlands Ambulance Service

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00:00During lockdown I was struggling financially for funds. I went to scrapping the illegal scrap metal

00:05out of old abandoned buildings that were getting demolished. Unfortunately I put my left arm into

00:09an 11kv switchboard which completely melted my forearms down to the bone. You can see the floor

00:14through it, the bicep was hanging off, the tricep was hanging off. I ran in front of the ambulance

00:18and sort of flagged it down. They already had the call through but they were unsure where I was

00:22and I managed to flag the ambulance down with my arms out high. Both faces of the

00:26paramedics were white as a ghost. We both looked at each other both Matt and I and we were like

00:32where do we start? Your arms are just completely exploded. Let's get them dressed first,

00:39let's give you something for the pain. I was on the radio going just send me everybody,

00:44just send me everyone and then everyone turned up. Any job that we go to you're there to try

00:50and advocate for the patient and do the best possible job you can and that's what we did.

00:55Anything where you get this massive kind of surge of electrical current going through causing such

00:59extensive sort of tissue injury and stuff, the likelihood is you're probably not going to leave

01:05hospital so to see you now two years later doing so fantastically well is unbelievable. It's a very

01:11special moment for me for this today and it means a hell of a lot. Without these guys and without

01:15this crew I just genuinely wouldn't be here today and they'll always have a special place in my heart.

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