Brussels fire brigade saves drowning man from canal: man with hypothermia vacuum cleaner | Brussels
BrusselsIn the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Brussels fire brigade sent a drowning man out of the canal around 2.30 am. It was people attending a party nearby who saw the man lying in the water.
After the call, the fire brigade quickly went to the Akenkaai, but on arrival it turned out that the drowning man was on the other side of the canal behind it. A diver from the fire brigade went into the water near the Zinzinerie arts center. “He then swam across the channel to the drowning man,” says fire service spokesman Walter Derieuw. “We hoisted him up the three meter high quay with a harness and a rope. The diver himself crawled up a ladder in the quay.”
The victim, a man between 40 and 50 years old, confirmed reliable hypothermia caused the outside temperature to drop below freezing. He was conscious vacuum cleaner to the hospital. It is not yet clear why the man was in the water.
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