(5 Jun 2006) SHOTLIST
Russell Square - 7 July 2005
++SHOTS 1-3 MUTE++
1. Long shot of mangled double decker bus
2. Various police at scene
3. Various ambulance workers
4. Ambulance drives past
5. Man holding bandage to his head
Edgware Road - 7 July 2005
6. Pull out from fire trucks to wide of scene
7. Police
8. Ambulance driving past
9. Pan from people watching to scene
10. Tube entrance
11. Ambulance drives past tube entrance
12. Various of victims being treated
13. Supplies arriving
Aldgate - 7 July 2005
14. Pull out from helicopter to scene
15. Policemen cross road
16. Police car driving down the road
King's Cross - 7 July 2005
17. Various of scene
King's Cross - 8 July 2005
18. Various flowers at scene
STORYLINE:
Flawed emergency planning and communications breakdowns marred the response to last July's London transit bombings, says an official
report published Monday.
The London Assembly's report highlights both the heroism and the confusion of emergency crews responding to the bombs, which killed 52 commuters and four bombers and left about 700 people injured.
One of several inquiries into the attacks, the report describes how rescuers' phones and radios failed, and some hospitals relied on staff
running to and from bomb sites to gather information.
The report includes harrowing testimony by survivors, who gave evidence to London Assembly politicians at a series of private and public sessions.
The 700-page report makes about 50 recommendations for improvements to emergency response procedures.
The report said hundreds of people were left to wander away from the scenes of the four explosions with little or no effort to identify them.
The report estimated that 1,000 adults and twice as many children had suffered from post-traumatic stress, but few of those had been identified by
authorities.
Since November, the five-member London Assembly committee has heard evidence from the heads of London's emergency services, transport officials, hospital staff and survivors of the bombings, which hit three subway trains and a double-decker bus.
The inquiry heard that, although commanders at London's Metropolitan Police had decided not to disrupt mobile phone services following the
bombings, networks were disabled on the order of City of London police - a smaller force which covers a section of central London.
The order affected millions of calls and left the majority of ambulance crews and hospital staff unable to communicate for hours.
Tim O'Toole, managing director of London Underground, said the subway network's "very old radio technology" also broke down following the blasts, halting vital communications. He acknowledged an improved system would not be in place until next year.
The Metropolitan Police also is due to get a new radio system, but not until 2008.
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