Has anyone here been involved in an emergency where you had to hard use your knife to save someone's life?

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I am into EDC about 7 years now and in every occasion I had to use a knife out in the street all I had was some kind of light utility task that could be done with a slip joint.

It makes me wonder if carrying a fixed blade is worth the hassle and/or if a small folding knife is more than enough.

Nowadays I levitate towards Cold Steel folding knives with Tri-Ad. I think that in this approach if some kind of emergency occurs and I have hard use my knife, the Tri-Ad can take it the hard use and I would have more reach than with a small fixed blade.

I am curious to know if someone here has a real life story where you had to hard use your knife in an a real emergency or any emergency at all where you had to act fast to save someone's life.
 
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Once my toddler was whipping balloons around on vacation and got the ribbon twisted so tight around his finger it was turning purple and causing him a lot of pain. No one knew where scissors were, but I got my #35 Churchill out in a second and freed him.

Hardly hard use, hardly saving a life, but there’s a real story.
 
Nothing quite so dramatic, but I did once use my small Sebenza to cut a hard plastic clorox wipes lid off my wife’s finger.

I have no idea why she thought it would be a good idea to stick her finger into the lid, but suffice it to say her support for knife spending went way up that day. :)
 
When she was just a young kid: did she ever get her tongue froze to a flagpole?
 
Years back I was feeling dissatisfied with my job, so against orders I and the company clerk took a jeep to go help someone in trouble. One the way back, we realized that he couldn't breathe. I called back to home base to see what we should do, and luckily a doctor was there to guide us. Using my small but sharp pocket knife I made a small vertical incision in his throat until I could see the larynx, then I cut through the larynx deep enough to pass a tube (the plastic dripper from my eyedrops) into his windpipe, saving his life with an impromptu emergency tracheotomy.




Wait, that wasn't me, that was Father Mulcahy on an episode of M*A*S*H.
 
I remember someone on here claiming to have pried a car door open with a HEST/F to save someone’s life.
And there’s also that one guy who fought off a herd of bananas, saving his hometown from certain death.
 
Planterz said:
Years back I was feeling dissatisfied with my job, so against orders I and the company clerk took a jeep to go help someone in trouble. One the way back, we realized that he couldn't breathe. I called back to home base to see what we should do, and luckily a doctor was there to guide us. Using my small but sharp pocket knife I made a small vertical incision in his throat until I could see the larynx, then I cut through the larynx deep enough to pass a tube (the plastic dripper from my eyedrops) into his windpipe, saving his life with an impromptu emergency tracheotomy.




Wait, that wasn't me, that was Father Mulcahy on an episode of M*A*S*H.
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Extra credit if you know what type of knife he used.
 
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