Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ric, that is her 'barking at passers by' spot ;-) john -----Original Message----- all the excitement and stuff aside, I really like the dog shot?gives me a smile ric > On Jul 9, 2019, at 12:36 PM, 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 > >