Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >