Posted on 07/08/2010 3:14:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Davinia Turrell, who changed her surname to Douglass after marrying last year, was left with horrific facial burns when a ball of fire ripped through the Circle line underground carriage on which she had been travelling.
As she staggered out of Edgware Road station with her head swathed in gauze bandage, supported by another passenger it looked certain that she would be bear the physical scars of the attack for the rest of her life.
At 8.50am she had been travelling by Tube to her office near Paddington, where she worked as a corporate tax trainee, when Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated his home made bomb.
Mrs Douglass said: “There was a loud bang and a ball of fire appeared from my left hand side and seemed to go right round me and then quickly retracted. After the explosion, the carriage was actually very quiet. Everyone was too shocked to scream or shout.”
She added: “No one knew what had happened but I wasn’t in any pain. I couldn’t see very clearly as I lost a contact lens.”
Mrs Douglass walked through the entire length of the train to reach street level, with no idea how badly she was burned.
She said: “I didn’t realise I was injured. I was still in shock. I remember telling people that I needed to get to work.”
Paramedics on the ground assessed her injuries along with the other walking wounded before giving her a mask to apply to her facial burns.
It was then former fireman Paul Dadge, who had been helping the paramedics, offered to help her across the road to a makeshift A&E centre in a nearby hotel, providing one of the enduring images of the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
"Her tights had been burnt off her bloodied legs, and hung like cobwebs around her ankles."
Keenlyside said: "She was desperate for someone to help relieve her pain. She wanted me to pour cold water on her, but was that the right thing to do? I became aware of a charred burning smell and looked around me before I realised it was coming from her."http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/unmasked-the-face-that-gripped-the-world/2005/07/11/1120934189083.html
Was she taken care of in America? I imagine if she stayed there for treatment, they would have left her the way she was.
wow...that’s truly amazing...her skin isn’t scarred at all from the burn...whatever they used on it worked wonders!
I guess Chairman O is right, those Muslim contributions to science and math are amazing. /sarc
That is incredible. What a total miracle.
Mrs Douglass was treated at the Chelsea and Westminster burns unit. This is in London.
Quite a good job.
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