The positive outlook for 2014 would also mean employment in the sector would improve again significantly, the association maintained, speaking of up to 5,000 possible new jobs in the offing."If things go extremely well, the German machine tool sector might for the first time employ more than one billion people," Festge said.Small and medium-sized companies form the backbone of the domestic engineering industry, but there are also a couple of listed heavyweights in the sector, including ThyssenKrupp, Gildemeister and Gea.The Arlington Fire Department received a call in May from a man in a wheelchair.There was smoke in Willy George's duplex. George was about to learn the value of a new piece of technology first-hand.
The 9-1-1 call from George reveals the potentially deadly consequences of inhaling smoke during a fire."I'm unable to get to the door," George told the 9-1-1 dispatcher when he called in."You can't get to the door? Are you inside?" the dispatcher asked.There is no reply, just the beeping of smoke detectors in the background."What is on fire, sir?" the dispatcher asked.There was still no reply."Sir, what's on fire?" the dispatcher asked more forcefully."I'm disabled and I….," George's response faded off."Sir, what is on fire? " The dispatcher repeated."I don't know," George finally replied.There is a slow, but forced interchange between the dispatcher and George until finally she asked, "Sir, do you have a call number you can be reached on?"
This time there was far longer pause with no reply."Hello?" the dispatcher said. "Hello?"George had passed out from smoke inhalation. Firefighters carried him out of his home."Once we got him outside we laid him down and he unconscious and unresponsive," said Firefighter Chris Holland who was one of the first on the scene.Arlington used a new piece of technology on George called the Cyanokit. Arlington was the first fire department in North Texas to have it. Researchers used to think it was mainly carbon monoxide in smoke that killed people."We've only recently begun to understand that there is a second culprit, cyanide," said Dr. Cynthia Simmons, the Arlington Fire Department's medical director.