ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. 0n the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last forever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, i m not going to. i m not going to die? i m going to die?, aren t i i kept saying, no, you re not. you re not. and they got a barrier, a metal barrier, and then put him on that, went round to the lift, he wouldn t fit in the lift, so i had to go back and go down the stairs. not one paramedic attended tojohn inside the arena. he was carried out on a makeshift stretcher to a casualty area outside.
on the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last for ever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, i m not going to. i m not going to die? i kept saying, no, you re not. you re not. and they got a barrier, a metal barrier, and then put him on that, went round to the lift, he wouldn t fit in the lift, so i had to go back and go down the stairs. not one paramedic attended tojohn inside the arena. he was carried out on a makeshift stretcher to a casualty area outside. ron left him after an hour thinking he would be ok now there were medics with him.
in less than a minute of that explosion, you rang 999, didn t you? yeah. police emergency, hello. yeah, there s been an explosion at manchester arena! john atkinson was the man ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. on the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me the belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour? yeah. you thought help would be soon? yeah. it just seemed to last forever, seemed to go on and on and on. and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. he kept saying, i m not going to. #2..i m going to die. #..i m going to die.
and less than a minute of that explosion, you rang 999, didn t you? yeah. police, emergency, - hello, can you hear me? john atkinson was the man ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. 0n the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last forever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, i m not going to.
himself injured, who could see that the man next to him was badly hurt. what did you notice about him? just the blood that were there like, a trail. so ijust went to see how he were. but he was talking. told me his name and all that. asked him where he were from. so, he communicated. and less than a minute of that explosion, you rang 999, didn t you? yeah. police, emergency, i hello, can you hear me? yeah, there s been an explosion at manchester arena. is anybody injured? yes, loads. - there s been an explosion? i explosion, yeah, big explosion. i m with a man now that s really injured. john atkinson was the man ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. 0n the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around