the ‘fog of war’ is a very serious obstacle Yes. Very much so. I didn't know what had happened until I finally made it to work at 10.10am, having been thrown off the tube at Baker Street at 9.20am. I obviously wasn't involved in any of the incidents and on hearing 'there have been massive power surges' I immediately went into 'Londoner-needs-to-get-to-work' mode. I spent the morning feeling vulnerable because of the lack of information available to me. our communication needs to be upgraded – unfortunately, from what I hear the TETRA airwave system that we will be getting in the start of 2008 is not going to solve many problems. There's a part of me that things the best solution is the simplest one that relies on as little and as tested technology as possible. When things get blown up, the technologically best solution may cease working and we need a fail-safe fall back. There's a reason I carry a whistle on my key ring.... There are some recommendations which are a little strange, such as allowing medical staff who are untrained in pre-hospital care to start setting up field hospitals and the like. While medical knowledge is incredibly useful, it’s also very useful to not have people who may be unaware of all the dangers on scene wandering around explosion sites in nothing more than theatre scrubs. I understand the urge to help, I would have done the same when I was working in A&E and I don’t want you to think that I’m degrading the work that these volunteers did on the day – but the risk of creating more casualties is just too high. I think the point is more that you can't *stop* people helping, so you might as well bring them within the overall command structure and use them ie. allocate them to provide TLC + care for minor injuries and not to deal with those with more serious injuries. There'd also be some merit in requiring medical staff to be trained regularly in the principles of pre-hospital care to help prevent them doing something stupid. It's only a matter of time before another incident like this ones happens again. spend a couple of minutes assessing what has happened and then walk another fifteen minutes to get back to the ambulance, and it is unsurprising that a lot of the injured felt that the ambulances took a long time to arrive. It's the communications thing again. How long would it take for the attendant to leave a message with a responsible person (say a member of LUL staff) explaining what he was doing and saying that help is on its way and that it'll take approximately 1/2 an hour for that person to rely to the passengers? we simply do not have enough room in our ambulances to stock for major incidents. And it would be unreasonable to expect you to. I think the report suggests that caches of stock be kept in tube stations/other large public venues and I think this is a good idea, providing there's some system of rotation so that it's replaced and doesn't sit around for years going out of date, ending up non-functional when it's actually needed.