Working with children and animals....

[rankamateur]

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/02/23/05/42/goat-grounds-rescue-chopper

[Cosmick]

Another case for that Shotgun under the seat.

 

 

[fred cenko]

Wow talk about a greeting party.Kind of reminds me of those documentry series which were aired on tv called worlds most dangerous airports with some of those remote Papua New

 

Guinean tribes not used to man, eyeballing the cameras.

 

 

[M61A1]

Have to wonder....if the patient was stable and treated for leg injuries, why the heli in the first place? The had problems in the US for a while because the privately run ambulance system would use a heli even when not needed because the insurance covered it. Had a few too many losses in marginal conditions though, which made authorities start asking why.

 

 

[Kiwi303]

just a wild ass guess, but could be the local volunteer ambulance somewhere rural and the heli was just to cover the distance to the city hospital instead of an hour plus on the road.

 

Happens here in places like East Cape and the Coromandel, or the Taharoa ironsands operation. Local ambo gets there, stabilises them while the heli takes it's time getting out and ferries them back rather than the journey over the hills and windy narrow roads. The ambo then just has to make the short trip back to base to clean and restock, rather than another hour or so plus back over the hills and twisties home.

 

 

[Riley]

just a wild ass guess, but could be the local volunteer ambulance somewhere rural and the heli was just to cover the distance to the city hospital instead of an hour plus on the road.Happens here in places like East Cape and the Coromandel, or the Taharoa ironsands operation. Local ambo gets there, stabilises them while the heli takes it's time getting out and ferries them back rather than the journey over the hills and windy narrow roads. The ambo then just has to make the short trip back to base to clean and restock, rather than another hour or so plus back over the hills and twisties home.

Exactly the case this past Sunday when a Club member suffered multiple injuries whilst in the process of destroying a gyro on the ground. 10 km from the country ambo stn & 115 km to the hospital. Triple 000 call jumped both the ambo and the rescue chopper. By the time the egg beater got there for the para rescue team to take over (was very, very impressed) the volunteer ambo girls had the patient stabilized and ready for dispatch. Money well spent I reckon.