[Leica] Highlands PAW 27

[Nathan Wajsman]

That is also done in Switzerland in connection with mountain rescues. People buy insurance cover for that.

Cheers
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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> 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
>> 
>> 
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