Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is also done in Switzerland in connection with mountain rescues. People buy insurance cover for that. Cheers Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 9 Jul 2019, at 19:07, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > Our national and state emergency rescue generally send a bill for services: > trying to mitigate stupid. > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 11:37 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote: > >> All photos taken from around home this week, some excitement! >> >> We had a young woman come up asking to phone the emergency services as >> someone was injured in the water at the bottom, apparently with a cut to >> her head and not able to walk. A couple of paramedics arrived, a very >> overweight man and a trainee woman. They were perturbed to find that >> they >> had no mobile coverage and their radios had no signal... The man said >> that >> they were not walking down to see what condition the woman was in, they >> had >> to carry a defibrillator and a large rucksack between them, but it did not >> look like he could make the climb.... So he called the coastguards from >> our phone. The volunteer coastguards started to arrive and took a >> stretcher down, and gave the paramedics a radio so that they could talk to >> each other. The paramedic had called in a helicopter, it would come from >> Shetland or Inverness so +100 miles away. We started to hear the chopper >> arrive and it was using a lot of power to just hover, they winched down a >> SAR paramedic. Then the local coastguards >> carried the woman up on the stretcher and into the ambulance. Talking to >> the helicopter pilot, he did not have enough power to safely go upwards >> after the rescue, so would have had to move out of the cove first and did >> not want to risk more injuries. >> >> In the end it seems that it was a local woman in her 60s (and not very >> athletic looking) who decided to try and clamber around on wet rocks, she >> damaged her arm in some way that but that seems to have been the extent of >> injury. So two paramedics with an ambulance, four coastguards with their >> 4x4 and a helicopter and crew from Inverness...... >> >> Other shots are of the Moray Firth and one real dog (cropped phone pic) >> >> https://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2019/27/ >> >> C & C welcome >> >> john >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information