[Leica] Highlands PAW 27

[John McMaster]

Not the UK way, although at times it seems a good idea - I do feel that the unfit paramedic was also at fault, not seeing what the issue was before calling a helicopter...

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Don Dory via LUG
Sent: 09 July 2019 18:07
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Cc: Don Dory
Subject: Re: [Leica] Highlands PAW 27

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
>