The local newspapers reported about two nasty incidents that ended well.
In Tomelilla, an off-duty firefighter found a four-year old child alone in a car. The weather was sunny and the temperature was quite high outside the car and very high inside the car.
Together with his officer, they started breaking in to the car. The mother arrived and unlocked the car. Luckily, the child didn't suffer any damages after spending at least fourty minutes in that car.
As a parent, I hope that I will never meet a child inside a locked car. If I do, I hope that I have the courage and presence needed to help that child. Being in a hot car is extremely dangerous.
Some sixty kilometers westbound, a similar incident occurred. Hundreds of passengers, including pregnant women, elderly people and small children found themselves trapped in a powerless train outside Malmö.
The internal loud speaker system failed, and after some fifty minutes, the passengers opened the train doors and went out on the tracks, where trains were operating in the opposite direction.
On a train, one should always follow the train personnels directions. But what to do if the clock is ticking, and the temperatures keep raising without any information? In the former incident, the necessary actions should be obvious. In the latter, one needs to consider the train operators ability to act,
I don't blame the people that left the train, even with the risk of being on the tracks in mind. However, the train operator needs to find out how to act. The passengers shouldn't need to choose between risk beeing overheated, electrocuted or run over by other trains.
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