{"id":10543,"date":"2024-09-02T22:54:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T22:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistkoala.com\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2024-09-02T22:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T22:54:37","slug":"princess-diana-final-words-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/princess-diana-final-words-firefighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter On Scene of Crash Revealed Tragic Final Words Princess Diana Told Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A firefighter who responded to the car crash that claimed Princess Diana\u2019s life 27 years ago has shared details about her final words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this day, August 31, in 1997, a car crash in Paris led to the death of Princess Diana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s one of the most well-known events in history, as she was in a car speeding away from a hotel while being chased by paparazzi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car was driven by Henri Paul, the deputy head of security at the Ritz Paris, who was later found to have been nearly four times over the legal alcohol limit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Diana died later on in hospital (Julian Parker\/UK Press via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Also in the vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz S 280 Saloon, were Diana\u2019s partner, Dodi Fayed, and her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car, while being pursued, crashed into the Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel. Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Princess Diana was pronounced dead later at the hospital, while Trevor Rees-Jones survived the crash despite suffering multiple serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the horrific crash, emergency services rushed to the scene, including firefighter Xavier Gourmelon, who heard Princess Diana\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Good Morning Britain on the 20th anniversary of her death, the firefighter shared that he was present and heard Princess Diana\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recounted, \u201cShe looked at me and said, \u2018Oh my God, what\u2019s happened?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cI tried to calm her down and tell her we\u2019d look after her, and then she fell into a coma again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gourmelon said that when they were responding to the crash, they didn\u2019t initially know who was in the car, and he didn\u2019t recognize that it was Princess Diana speaking to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He described her as \u2018agitated\u2019 at first before she lost consciousness again.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The crash occurred on 31 August, 1997. (PIERRE BOUSSEL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At that point, she was still trapped in the wreckage of the car, and when they removed her from the vehicle, she went into cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cAt that moment, the doctor said she was in cardiac arrest. We performed CPR, and after 20 seconds, she regained consciousness. We then transferred her to the ambulance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The firefighter said he couldn\u2019t see any visible injuries on her body and believed she would make a full recovery if she could be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she passed away after experiencing another cardiac arrest in the hospital, which could not be successfully resuscitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A French investigation into the crash attributed the blame to Henri Paul, while a British inquest concluded that the deaths resulted from unlawful killing due to grossly negligent driving by Paul and the paparazzi trailing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A firefighter who responded to the car crash that claimed Princess Diana\u2019s life 27 years ago has shared details about her final words. On this day, August 31, in 1997, a car crash in Paris led to the death of Princess Diana. It\u2019s one of the most well-known events in history, as she was in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devserver.pw\/twistkoala.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}