Re: [QLD] Roma Street today

["Roy Wilke" <roywilke@notabitlikeanisp.net.au>]

"jjjim" <jjjim@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know what was going on at Roma Street Station ,one of the
> northbound platforms. at about 5:30 this arvo?   A fire Truck , police
> ,  Ambulance, . what looked like  fire crew on the platform. and a
> camera being setup hehe.  the Train was half way accross platform. and
> holding up a train behind  which was stranded right over the Points  for
> ipswitch line.  blocking movement to ipswich!
>
> I  assume somehow a fire broke out?  or someone trapped somewhere
> strange :p

A woman got her foot caught between the train and the platform. The "jaws of
life" was needed to prise the train sufficiently far away from the platform
for the woman to be safely extricated.