Fantastic emergency response

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Just got back from clay pigeon shooting on a farm.

A man turned up needing help. He was one of a party of 4 walkers who had been making their way across land above our shoot, he said that a large branch had broken in the strong wind and severely injured a woman in his party.

No vehicle access possible and possibly too windy for the air ambulance. Gave him OUR what3words location (to be updated with the correct location later) and one of our people went back to the scene with him, to render first aid, give updated location and deploy red smoke flares when help was nearby. Within 10 minutes a paramedic arrived, closely followed by an ambulance, then 4 ambulance “incident response” vehicles (whatever they are) and then by 3 mountain rescue vehicles. And then, driving out of there, we saw another incident response ambulance and a large incident response van, about a 7.5 ton, parked outside on the road.

I don’t know how it ended, apparently the victim was unconscious and unresponsive, but a fantastic response.
 
Our emergency services are among the best in the world. Thank you to all of them. Don't forget the lifeboats who also work for free. Real heroes. Our local lifeboat's motto is "Never turn back" and a local pub is named the same.
www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk

Caister Lifeboat | Saving lives at sea since 1791.

Caister Lifeboat has been saving lives at sea since 1791. Completely independent, we depend entirely on public donations to help us provide safety and rescue services to the countless vessels, crews and beach visitors to this area of the East Coast.
www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk
 
Pixbarmy said:
Our emergency services are among the best in the world. Thank you to all of them. Don't forget the lifeboats who also work for free. Real heroes. Our local lifeboat's motto is "Never turn back" and a local pub is named the same.
www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk

Caister Lifeboat | Saving lives at sea since 1791.

Caister Lifeboat has been saving lives at sea since 1791. Completely independent, we depend entirely on public donations to help us provide safety and rescue services to the countless vessels, crews and beach visitors to this area of the East Coast.
www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk www.caisterlifeboat.org.uk
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Oh yeah, you know the Fisherman's Friends? The real ones? Their real jobs are as RNLI Lifeboat men down in Port Isaac, I'd love to go but Dad doesn't want the 6 hour drive from Sheffield to almost the bottom left hand corner of the UK map.
 
An update of sorts, from Mountain Rescue https://cvsrt.org.uk/incidents/redirect/date/2022/1?catid=4 incident 1418.

It seems to have ended up OK, but that was largely luck I think, the walking group were disorganised, didn't have any kind of emergency action plan and had no idea where they were. And the person who made his way to us for help was apologetic for bothering us and it took a while to find out what had happened.
 
No update on how she is. Obvs hope she will be ok.
 
East Morton isn’t that far from me…….. Can see that people get caught out with a false sense of security in areas like that simply because it’s seen as not being properly out in the wilds and they feel like they don’t need to take the same kind of precautions as they might if they were in a more remote area (although some people still fail to prepare properly for those situations - but that’s a different story).
As a walker and a biker the Air Ambulance and Mountain Rescue services are my most regular charitable donation recipients. Never know when it’ll be my turn to need them (although I hope I won’t!!)
 
Never unhappy to end up in the bunker beside the 9th green - it's the captain's charity bunker so it's a 50p donation to the Devon Air Ambulance. Since it's one of the charities I support anyway, I reckon I'm a few years in credit as far as ending up "on the beach"!!!

Hope there's a satisfactory outcome for the patient.
 
Nod said:
Never unhappy to end up in the bunker beside the 9th green - it's the captain's charity bunker so it's a 50p donation to the Devon Air Ambulance. Since it's one of the charities I support anyway, I reckon I'm a few years in credit as far as ending up "on the beach"!!!

Hope there's a satisfactory outcome for the patient.
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Let's hope that she's OK, but we'll probably never know, unless one of them comes back to our shoot on Saturday and tells us - and that assumes that they're capable of finding us again:)
 
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