Daring rescue - Oddball
They turned in at the farm house just up Mccleod rd
to take them on a track which would bring them upto the front of them, however
they could only get about half way they quite suprised to see me behind them, so
i politely asked (any one need a lift) exellent!!! was the reply.
as things prgressed i ferried firemen and equipment
to and fro, things eased a little for a minute or
two . then the cheif said would you go back up to the house there's a paramedic
on the way we need to get them down here as soon as, woooohoooo (it was like
when you said 3.2.1)
when they arrived there were 3 of them and
thousands of $$$$$$ worth of gear (but there's only one seat) and they were all
girls never the less they pilled on
i think i heard one of them say drive carefully
(who me) i always do i replied, they arrived intact gear and all. Then a short
rest while they worked out a plan to get her out
of there do you want to put the stretcher across the back i said? NO it will be
to rough, but it to far to carry her out so we will call westpac rescue
uhhh nice
These guys must have been waiting around the corner
within minutes of his call they where coming in looking for somwhere to land he
got pretty darn close but was only able to touch down to drop of his crew then
went to find a level spot.
At this point the paramedic needed a special splint but the westpac did'nt have one but quess what THERE WAS ONE IN THE AMBULNCE no need to ask woooohoooo so off i went with one of the ambo crew but as we rounded a corner we found where the chopper had gone? he was parked on the only bit of level track their was and it was still running, as i pulled up i signaled i needed to go past you can quess what he said! when the paramedic explained what was needed he got out and came over to me and said if i shut it down can you get round without hitting the blades wooooooohoooooooo can i what TO which he said i'm serious there's 3.7MILLION there!!!!! i'll be carefull it seems to take a long time for them blades to stop!
so around we went with out any problems upto
the ambo got the splint and away back we went
every thing went like clockwork so i asked the
police if they had a camera? yep i"ve got one said the ocifer, want for If i
can get close enough to the chopper i would ilke a couple of pics no problem
he said so they loaded the gear back on and back we wen.
I got quite close as i had the co-pilots gear on
the pilot was a little calmer this time, while we talking he said he gets very
nevous when vehicles are around he does'nt normally let them this close the
police ocifer took the pics and hopefully he will e-mail them to me
sortly.
the girl will prodably be in hospital for a while
and may require knee reconstruction.
kev ------
(Ed: Action photos will be along shortly - we hope!)
