Leaked emails from the UK Petroleum Industry Association to Britain’s Department of Energy have revealed that British ambulance drivers are restricted to a maximum of £50 of petrol, reported Sky News.
Furthermore, Sky News reported that a doctor has emailed them telling about an ambulance that had difficulty to find enough fuel to continue with its duties.
The petrol chaos in Britain started when British officials urged the public to store fuel and buy more petrol than they needed. On Wednesday, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude urged people to fill up jerry cans with petrol and store them inside their home.
On Friday, a British woman caught fire and suffered 40% burns to her whole body while decanting petrol she had stored in her home.
Pinderfields hospital, to which the woman was taken, has said she is “critically ill.”
Several Labour politicians called for Maude’s resignation over the incident. Nevertheless, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said there was “no truth at all” in rumors that Maude was considering resignation.
Unite, Britain’s biggest union, has said that it has ruled out fuel strike over the Easter weekend. However, it retains the right to strike if negotiations over fuel tanker drivers’ working condition and health and safety regulations fail.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who held a Cobra meeting on Wednesday and urged the public to top up on petrol, has asked Unite to “call off the strike entirely.”
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