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A 15-YEAR-OLD girl thought she was “having a stroke” after stepping on “dodgy wiring” near Sydney’s troubled light rail construction.

A SCHOOLGIRL who took her uncomfortable boots off and walked through Sydney’s CBD has suffered a severe electric shock after stepping on “dodgy wiring”.

The dramatic incident took place near the construction site for the city’s troubled light rail project overnight and the shock was so powerful it knocked Anna Lambden, 15, to the ground.

The girl’s mother, Viola Morris, claims the powerful jolt, which left her daughter “paralysed” with shock as she lay at the George Street and Ultimo Road near Haymarket, was caused by “dodgy wiring”.

The young girl described the “pins and needles” sensation pulsing through her body before she dropped to the ground in the foetal position.

Ms Morris posted a photograph of herself and her daughter in hospital on Facebook last night, saying the incident could have been “catastrophic”.

Schoolgirl Anna Lambden was struck by electricity surging through the wet footpath on a busy CBD street. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

“It sounds like there was some dodgy wiring from the tram construction and it connected with the ground which connected with Anna’s wet socks, she was wearing heels which she’d taken off,” Ms Morris wrote.

“She was in lots of pain, and that’s settled to muscular pain now. It’s so random and could have been so catastrophic.”

The girl has now been discharged, but Ms Morris said the current which passed through her daughter’s body was so severe, it was shocking people who tried to help her on the street.

Viola Morris with her daughter. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

“The current was so strong that the passers by who tried to help her were also shocked by touching her,” she said.

“For all the crazy things kids do, I’m wild with rage that something as innocent as taking off boots to walk in socks could have killed her.”

The schoolgirl told The Daily Telegraph she had been waiting at the traffic lights with a friend when she was suddenly hit with “unbearable pain”.

“I was just screaming, I didn’t know what had happened,” Anna told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

“I don’t remember falling. One minute I was standing and the next on the (ground). I thought at first I was having a stroke.

“I felt pulses of electricity go through my whole body. I was shaking, my whole body, screaming, calling for help.”

Transport NSW deputy secretary Tony Braxton-Smith says the site is safe and investigations are continuing.

“I can assure people that there have been teams on site to make sure the site is electrically safe. It’s a very unusual incident and we are taking it extremely seriously and we want to get to the bottom of where the cause is and make sure things like that don’t happen again,” he told 2GB today.

The response to the incident has now become political. Picture: John GraingerSource:News Corp Australia

Labor’s deputy leader Michael Daley says the state government’s “already disastrous” light rail project has now become a “dangerous disaster”.

“Gladys Berejiklian needs to get her safety auditors on site, en masse, this morning,” he told AAP today.

He blamed the government’s previous cost-cutting measures to the NSW Department of Roads and Maritime Services and transport agencies.

“They don’t have the capability to have project managers of their own on-site any more, and this is what happens when you cut budgets,” he said.

A spokesman for Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) said it was investigating the incident.

“Once Roads and Maritime was made aware of the incident, staff attended the site and made the area safe after identifying an issue with an exposed wire,” the spokesman said in a statement.

“Roads and Maritime will ensure a thorough investigation is carried out.”

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MILWAUKEE — A 9-year-old boy choked to death in a school cafeteria. Now, one Wisconsin Assemblyman is working on a plan to make sure it never happens again.

It’s a story many have heard time and time again. Someone is choking and someone else steps up to be the hero.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always end that way.

Mark Megna’s son, Sam, died last summer after choking on a home-packed lunch in a Milwaukee Public Schools’ cafeteria.

Sam Megna

“He meant everything to me, you know?” Megna said. “It doesn`t make any sense to me.”

The first adult Sam encountered did not know how to do the Heimlich maneuver. A second tried the Heimlich without any success. And, a third adult tried CPR to no avail.

Sam was eventually taken to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin where he died nine days later.

“When your parents die, you lose a little bit of yourself. But when Sam died, I lost everything,” Megna said.

There is little doubt the adults who attended to Sam were trying to help him. There is no way to know if faster or a better-trained response would have made a difference.

Mark Megna, Sam’s father

But Sam’s father questions why they waited until Sam had lost consciousness to call 911.

The school district’s own insurance company found that none of the adults monitoring the cafeteria that day had up-to-date training in CPR or the Heimlich maneuver.

“All I want to know is, are teachers required to be CPR certified?” Megna said.

A FOX6 Investigation finds they are not.

Milwaukee Public Schools do not require staff members to get the training and neither does Wisconsin state law.

Assemblyman Daniel Riemer is looking to change that.

“Absolutely tragic,” State Sen. Riemer said. “We need a plan to make sure this never happens again.”

Riemer and two of his staff members watched the FOX6 investigation at the Megna family’s request.

State Representative Daniel Riemer

“It really touched us,” Riemer said.

After viewing the FOX6 Investigation, Riemer and his staff immediately began researching what they can do to prevent a similar tragedy in the future.

“My hope is that this story, the one you`ve already shared, the one you continue to tell, will provide anyone who has doubts with at least a side of the story that says, this is urgent. This is important,” Riemer said.

According to the National Safety Council, choking is the fourth leading cause of accidental death in the United States with 30 to 40 school-aged children choking to death in America every year.

Roy Shaw of Michigan-based company Pro Training LLC says that makes preparing for a choking incident at school critical.

“I think this is a big wake up call,” Shaw said. “Get trained before the emergency happens.”

His company keeps track of which states require teachers to get CPR training. Their map shows Wisconsin is surrounded by states that require it for at least some school staff members — including Indiana and Michigan, which require it for all teachers.

In Wisconsin, only students are required to get training. For staff, it’s voluntary.

“We`ve got to make sure teachers know what to do. They know how to remove a chicken finger from a throat. They know how to provide a Heimlich maneuver that they know at least the basics of CPR,” Shaw said.

Riemer says they are in the early stages of their research to determine the best and more cost-effective approach for Wisconsin.

Roy Shaw, Pro Training LLC

“If we provide people who interact with children the right tools, it`s my hope that this will never happen again,” Riemer said.

So, the next choking story you hear is one of celebration instead of sorrow.

“We want the rules to change so that other parents don`t have to go through what we`re going through,” Megna said.

Last fall, the governing body of the Wisconsin High School Athletics (WIAA) added its own requirement that coaches be certified in CPR and first aid.

Riemer hopes to craft something that will address training for other school staff members but says he cannot introduce anything until at least next winter when the new legislative session begins.

State Senator Tim Carpenter reached out to the Megna family last month. He is, also, planning to work on a bill that would get more teachers training in CPR and first aid.

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ROBERT Whittaker has posted photo evidence of the devastation inflicted on his body during his unforgettable masterpiece in courage at UFC 225.

The Aussie middleweight champion’s refusal to buckle after eating thunderous hooks and elbows from rival Yoel Romero in their UFC 225 re-match is the talk of the UFC.

It has now been revealed exactly how incredible it is that Whittaker was still standing — and smiling — after he was awarded his first title defence victory via a split judges decision on Sunday (AEST) in Chicago.

The 27-year-old posted a photo to Instagram on Sunday night showing his bruised and swollen face.

His camp also revealed a post-fight X-ray off his right hand — showing a clearly broken thumb — which he carried for the final four rounds of the fight.

He said in his post-match interview that his hand was “busted” and wasn’t able to feel anything below his elbow in his right arm.

“Yoel must be bad luck, mate because first round I busted my hand and I cannot feel it,” the 27-year-old said.

Robert Whittaker and Yoel Romero went to war.Source:AFP

“It was absolutely brutal.

“He hits like a truck. I know he looks weak, but he packs some power, I’ll tell you that much.”

One look at the significant strikes he landed and suffered during his five rounds with Romero reveal exactly how mind-blowiningly brutal it really was.

According to reports the UFC 225 main event shattered the middleweight record for the most significant strikes ever landed in a five-round middleweight fight in the UFC.

Whittaker landed 128 significant strikes during the fight — including several punches with his broken right hand in the final two rounds of the fight.

Romero also landed an incredible 111 significant strikes — including a series of scary punches that dropped Whittaker in the third round and again in the fifth round.

The two set a new middleweight record of 239 significant strikes landed.

It’s little wonder he was looking less than flash on Monday morning (AEDT).

Robert Whittaker’s thumb was in a bad way.Source:Instagram

The pain would surely have been dulled somewhat by the $100,000 bonus he recieved for featuring in the fight of the night at UFC 225.

Whittaker received the full bonus because Romero was ineligible to receive bonuses after failing to make weight during the UFC 225 weigh-ins — he was also reportedly forced to offer Whittaker 30 per cent of his fight purse.

It meant Whittaker’s title was not on the line, but Whittaker has officially been credited with his first title defence in the UFC record books.

UFC boss Dana White said he would see how long it took Whittaker to get healthy before any decision was made on the champion’s next fight.

“I saw him back there and his hand was swollen up, it’s huge his hand is definitely broken,” White said.

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Scout leaders have taken part in the island’s first mental health first aid course.

A total of 13 Scout leaders in the island attended the course which coincided with the end of Mental Health Awareness Week.

The two-day course, which is the mental health equivalent of physical first aid and leads to a recognised certification, was run by Manxman Jay Thompson, who is a mental heath nurse.

Kevin Brew, of the Isle of Man Scouts, said the participants were now qualified as mental health first aiders.

’Through this two-day training, these people have been armed with the knowledge, skills and confidence to recognise the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues and effectively guide a person towards the right support, be that self-help or professional services,’ he said.

’There is a misconception in most social and work environments that mental health must not be addressed by non-professionals, with worries of doing or saying ’the wrong thing’,’ he added.

Mr Brew said part of the training was to challenge this view and the course had used a variety of methods to do so, including case studies, videos, group work and individual reflection.

’Those who take MHFA courses are not trained to be therapists or psychiatrists but can offer initial support through non-judgemental listening and guidance.

’MHFA training also teaches people to look after their own mental wellbeing and spreads the important message that we all have mental health,’ he said.

’This is an empowering course that helps people understand how much active help they can provide. It is designed to plug the gap between preventative measures and medical intervention.’

Island Scout commissioner Guy Thompson said although all Scout leaders had completed first aid training, until now none had completed a course in first aid for mental health.

The mental health first aid course was first developed in Australia in the year 2000 and now is delivered in 23 countries.

For more information about mental health or mental health first aid training contact [email protected] or visit mentalhealthbuildingblocks.co.uk

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A TWO-year-old boy is in a serious condition after he climbed onto a conveyor belt and ended up inside an airport’s baggage handling system.

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A BOY has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition after an incident on a luggage conveyor belt at Auckland International Airport this afternoon.

The New Zealand Herald understands the two-year-old boy suffered a serious arm injury after being carried on a baggage conveyor belt.

A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said Aviation Security Service (Avsec) staff “were extremely surprised to discover a child in the baggage handling system” after he got on a baggage conveyor belt at the check-in counters about 3pm.

“As soon as the child was detected, Avsec staff moved quickly to rescue him,” he said.

“They comforted the child and administered first aid until medical staff arrived.”

A full investigation of the incident was underway, he said.

A St John spokesman said they transported the toddler to Middlemore Hospital.

He was in a serious but stable condition, he said.

“We understand it was a conveyor-belt-related incident.”

A Middlemore Hospital spokesman said the boy was in a stable condition.

The boy was found inside the airport’s baggage handling system.Source:istock

An Auckland International Airport spokeswoman said staff were reviewing the security footage to establish what had happened, and how.

She said the priority was the safety and wellbeing of the child.

Police confirmed they were aware of an incident but referred the Herald to airport management and Aviation Security.

Overseas, a number of children have passed through baggage conveyor belts in recent years.

In 2006, a woman passed her one-month-old grandson through the X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Guardian reported that a security worker saw the baby entering the machine sitting on a plastic bin intended for hand luggage and jackets.

That official managed to pull the bin out along the conveyor belt.

In 2013, a five-month-old boy died on a baggage carousel at a Spanish airport after his mother put his baby carrier on the conveyor belt and it became trapped in the machine.

Spanish police said the weight of the baby carrier activated the special carousel for outsizes luggage, carrying the infant off to the entrance of the bag drop.

This article originally appeared on the New Zealand Herald and has been republished here with permission.

Children living in neighborhoods that are not conducive to walking are more likely to develop asthma and to continue to have this condition through later childhood, according to a new study published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

In “Associations Between Neighborhood Walkability and Incident and Ongoing Asthma in Children,” researchers from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Toronto evaluated associations between home neighborhood walkability and both the incidence of asthma and its ongoing occurrence.

Although there have been studies of neighborhood walkability and chronic diseases such as diabetes in adults, this large, long-term study is believed to be the first to look at walkability and childhood asthma.

“We found that children living in neighborhoods with low walkability were more likely to develop asthma and to continue to have asthma during later childhood,” said lead author, Dr. Elinor Simons, a pediatric allergist and clinician scientist who now works at the University of Manitoba and Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Canada. “These findings show a relationship between lack of day-to-day physical activity or sedentary lifestyle and development of new and ongoing asthma in Toronto children.”

Dr. Simons and colleagues used healthcare data housed in the province of Ontario’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) to follow 326,383 Greater Toronto children born between 1997 and 2003 until ages eight through 15. Asthma diagnoses were based on the time the children’s data were entered in the validated Ontario Asthma Surveillance System (OASIS), which requires two outpatient visits within two consecutive years or any hospitalization for asthma. Children with asthma in OASIS were followed continuously starting at their time of diagnosis and until the end of the study.

A Walkability Index was used to examine whether the neighborhoods in which these children lived were conducive to walking. Neighborhood characteristics that comprised the index included population density, dwelling density, access to retail and services, and street connectivity.

The researchers used two statistical models to determine associations between asthma and walkability: associations between walkability and incident asthma were examined using Cox proportional hazards models, while associations between ongoing asthma and walkability in each year were determined with generalized linear mixed models.

The authors found that 69,628 children (21%) developed incident asthma and were followed in the OASIS database. Low walkability in a child’s neighborhood of birth was associated with an increased risk of asthma development. Among children with asthma, low walkability in a given year was associated with greater odds of ongoing asthma in the same year. The median age of asthma diagnosis was 2.5 years for all children with asthma and 3.5 years for children who had ongoing asthma until the end of the study.

The same results were found after accounting (controlling) for gender, preterm birth, neighborhood income, obesity and allergic conditions.

The authors noted that their findings document a “statistically robust longitudinal association between childhood asthma and low neighborhood walkability, extending the results of previously published studies that have demonstrated variable associations between childhood asthma and exercise or sedentary lifestyle. These results also support community-level interventions to modify home neighborhood environment in ways that are associated with positive changes in individual physical activity levels.”

“Toronto has a population of over six million multiethnic inhabitants, making it representative of many large urban centers in industrialized countries,” said the study’s authors. “Other large cities may have neighborhood walkability patterns that are similar to Toronto’s, and may see similar associations with childhood asthma.”

But how can neighborhood walkability be improved? It can be improved, for example, “By greater placement of services such as grocery stories within residential neighborhoods and adding pedestrian paths between roads to improve street connectivity,” the authors said.

She added: “It is important to note that this study measured physical characteristics and did not look at social characteristics such as neighborhood crime and safety or cultural reasons for walking rather than using another means of transportation. These characteristics also need to be studied and taken into account.”​

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FIVE pedestrians, including a child in a pram, were taken to hospital after a van ran a red light causing another car to hurtle out of control at a busy intersection in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday afternoon.

Police described the multi-car accident at the corner of William and La Trobe streets as chaotic when an Uber car performing a hook turn was hit by an RACV van just before 4pm, causing it to plough into pedestrians.

A smashed pram at the scene of the crash. Picture: Jake NowakowskiSource:News Corp Australia

The Nine Network reports the impact threw the young girl from her pram.

“A yellow RACV van just came up on the inside of us, clipped the car,” she said.

“Our car lost control and it just started spinning, we took out all those people and it was just so bad.”

The Toyota also hit a number of stationary cars at the traffic lights.

Detective Acting Sergeant Mark Kelly said the driver ran a red light, and he was co-operating with police.

“The scene was chaotic but it was well managed by all emergency services,” Acting Sgt Kelly said.

“The driver stopped immediately and is very co-­operative.

“He’s obviously in shock.”

Police say drugs and alcohol were not a factor and the cause was “accidental”.

“There was no malice involved,” Acting Sgt Kelly added.

A total of five pedestrians, including two children – one confirmed to be a pre-school-aged girl, were injured. A woman in her 30s had serious hip and leg injuries, a man in his 30s had minor leg injuries and a female in her 30s had minor rib and chest soreness.

The adults were taken to both the Royal Melbourne Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital.

One of the injured children was taken to the Royal Children’s Hospital with cuts on her face and legs.

Another child sustained minor injuries.

Police are still investigating the exact cause of the collision, but are treating the crash as accidental.

Anyone who witnessed the collision or has further information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at ­crimestoppersvic.com.au.

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Originally published as Child ‘thrown from pram’ as five hit in CBD crash

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Not for the efforts of his son, who performed CPR for 43 minutes, the 76-year-old says he would have died.

Now, Mr Mills will be given a greater chance of survival from cardiac arrest after the Australian Hotels Association said it would fund and roll out more than 300 public-access heart defibrillators at regional hotels and clubs across SA.

It’s a lifesaving partnership with St John Ambulance SA.

Defibrillators are used to treat Sudden Cardiac Arrest, a condition that occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops pumping due to an underlying medical condition.

No one knows the importance of having a device nearby than Stuart Green, 45, of Port Augusta, who saved a stranger’s life after he collapsed while playing a tennis final just five weeks ago.

“He’d had a heart attack and ended up in cardiac arrest,” Mr Green recalled.

“Myself and a couple of others were helping out … we did CPR and compressed the chest while someone else got the ‘defib’.

“This fellow basically got two shocks (and his heart started) — it was a very, very good outcome.”

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Both Mr Green and Mr Mills welcomed the $750,000 equipment investment to the regions.

AHA (SA) general manager Ian Horne said the central position of pubs and clubs in country towns made them the obvious home for the lifesaving devices.

St John Ambulance SA chief executive Michael Cornish said every minute counted when it came to cardiac arrest.

“For every minute defibrillation is delayed, the chance of survival decreases by 10 per cent,” he said.

“A delay of 10 minutes more often than not results in death.

“This means areas of critical need for these devices are those located more than five to 10 minutes from their nearest hospital or ambulance station,” Mr Cornish said.

Defibrillator devices are designed to be used by people with minimal or no training and the device will only administer a shock to a person who requires it.

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