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My SO worked overnights in an ER. Someone came in with a tight ankle monitoring cuff, which apparently has titanium cables inside, and their foot wound up swelling up because of an accident that damaged the cuff. He was hours from losing his foot entirely, they had to operate but the cuff was in the way. They managed to wake up someone at the manufacturer at 1am, who then located a jeweler back in our city with saws that could cut it, and emailed over diagrams showing exactly where to cut. The fire department, indeed, came and went unable to do anything because it was too close to the skin to use any of their grinders.
Yeah. We carry a lot of shit, but generally a small Dremel with diamond cutting blades isn't one of them.