Tag: accident

14th June 2016 Skopje, North Macedonia

Charles Garrett

British Ambassador to Macedonia

When an accident happens who do you call?

If you have ever had to ring fire/police/ambulance, you’ll perhaps agree that you have never been more dependent on someone else’s planning and ability to deliver a timely, effective and coordinated response. How do they do it? I found some of the answers recently when I met a group of visitors from the UK Fire […]

24th November 2010

by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

This post was published when the author was in a previous role

A little help from my friends

Although preparations for the Hungarian EU Presidency are now gathering pace, ordinary life does not stop. And we know how accidents, natural disasters or international events can throw out the best laid plans. When I saw the moving reports of the Hungarian red sludge accident on 4 October, I was shocked by the acute hardship […]