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Katie Woolf spoke with St Johns Emergency Communications Centre Manager Craig Garraway · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce main Darwin joining us live
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  Speaker 1: on the line. From Saint John, Craig Garaway, the manager
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  Speaker 1: of the Emergency Communications Center. Good morning to you, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning Katie. How are you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really well, Craig. Unfortunately, a horrible weekend on the
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  Speaker 1: roads with nine car crashes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look right across the territory. Nine car crashes. Eight
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  Speaker 2: people taken the hospital and obviously four of these actually
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  Speaker 2: occurred in l Springs for serious accents on the road,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously one resulted in a fatality. So a really
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  Speaker 2: bad weekend on the road and busy time for emergency services.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I'll go to on Saturday, I know, at
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  Speaker 1: eight point thirty in the morning, this is a sad one.
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  Speaker 1: A push bike rider was hit by a car and
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  Speaker 1: passed away. At the scene that one there near Simpson's Gap.
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  Speaker 1: There was a doctor on the scene who attempted to
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  Speaker 1: assist that cyclist, but unfortunately, as as I said, that
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  Speaker 1: person passed away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look at this sad and you're right there was
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  Speaker 2: a doctor and I believe nurse on the scene who
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  Speaker 2: made men also riding bikes, So yeah, very disappointing and
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  Speaker 2: obviously police fire and ambults on the scene very quickly,
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  Speaker 2: but unfortunately the cyclist was unable to be saved and
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  Speaker 2: had passed away at the scene. So yeah, really bad
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  Speaker 2: start to our weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. And then later in the day, this
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  Speaker 1: time in Livingstone, a forty six year old female came
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  Speaker 1: off a motorbike.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, she sustained a head injury out there at
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  Speaker 2: about ten to six and forty six year old female
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  Speaker 2: was transport to the hospital, not the serious condition, but
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  Speaker 2: obviously as a result of that accident. And then pretty
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  Speaker 2: much straight after this, about thirty minutes later, same area Livingston,
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  Speaker 2: we had a forty six year old male there involved
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  Speaker 2: in a quad bike accident resulted in a knee injury
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  Speaker 2: and again needed to be taken to the hospital. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people out enjoying obviously our lives style, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and unfortunately sometimes that results in these type of incidences.
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  Speaker 2: But yea not a good weekend, no, And then.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, well Sunday evening in Tea where twenty five
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  Speaker 1: year old bloke was bitten by a snake.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we've had a few of those over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of months, we've talked about as a bit
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  Speaker 2: snake incident, and obviously normally I'm asked whether we know
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  Speaker 2: what snake it was. We don't know what snake it was,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't know the snake was taken the hospital
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  Speaker 2: for identification. So they did get the snake and get
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  Speaker 2: into the hospital. It makes it a lot easier for
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  Speaker 2: the hospital staff to especially if they've got to administer
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  Speaker 2: and evenom to understand what sort of snake it is.
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  Speaker 2: Holy moly, yes, preedy recovery.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously you paramedics have got to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they get that twenty five year old into you know,
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  Speaker 1: into the back of the vehicle safely and he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: But then they also what was to go with the snake?
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  Speaker 1: How did they catch the snake?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the people there actually caught the stake
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  Speaker 2: before we got there, which was a bit of a bonus,
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  Speaker 2: and put it into a bag. So we were just
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  Speaker 2: the transport medium a snake. And obviously the hospital staff
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  Speaker 2: then would have got a snake experting to come and
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  Speaker 2: identify that snake. As I said, so we.
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  Speaker 1: Can holy moly, I'm assuming that the snake. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: the snake was no longer alive. Either that or it
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  Speaker 1: would have made for an interesting car trip.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I can't answer that. You're right, it would
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  Speaker 2: have made if it was alive. It would have made
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  Speaker 2: for an interesting car trip, especially if it had it
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  Speaker 2: got out and that would have got him all go.
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  Speaker 1: That's always the concerns, you know. Once a funny story
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  Speaker 1: for you, Craig Garaway. My husband was once transporting we'd
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  Speaker 1: caught this big rat in our yard and he was
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  Speaker 1: transporting it, you know, to take it out bush because
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  Speaker 1: he's a good person like that, and it got out
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  Speaker 1: in the car.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been funny. Would have got out of
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  Speaker 2: the car pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the kids refused to get back into the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: So I wondered the same with that snake. If something
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  Speaker 1: like that happened, I'd be like, sorry, I'll walk to
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  Speaker 1: the to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of nooks and crannies in our animals,
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  Speaker 2: just so I could imagine getting in one of those
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  Speaker 2: and taken a while with a fine So it would
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  Speaker 2: have been I no, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that everybody, obviously including the snake, got
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  Speaker 1: to RDH safely by the sounds of it is that
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year old Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, recovering well in hospital at the moment, and if
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  Speaker 2: there's no signs of symptoms, I'll probably let him out today.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, it's another one. Just be careful at night.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to be a moving around at night with
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  Speaker 2: the heat and water it's around, So.
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  Speaker 1: Just yeah, absolutely, and Craig Garaway, it is of course
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  Speaker 1: International Women's Day, and I know that at Saint john
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  Speaker 1: Nt well you guys have got a big day plan,
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  Speaker 1: but you've also got some of your wonderful staff and others,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, being recognized for the great work that they do. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I've just walked out of that presentation to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you and the Administrator. The Honorable Administrator is here
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  Speaker 2: at the moment talking with our staff and presenting a
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  Speaker 2: number of awards, and one of those is obviously for
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  Speaker 2: the honorable doctor vel Riash who passed away about two
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  Speaker 2: years ago and is the Dame of our Order. So
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  Speaker 2: we basically had her cloak put into a glass cabinet
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  Speaker 2: and that was unveiled today by the Administrator. So yeah, look,
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  Speaker 2: an amazing day and obviously great recognition on international Women's
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  Speaker 2: Day for our women in our workforce and all women
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  Speaker 2: in general right across the workforces. And we also announced
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  Speaker 2: the arrival of our new administrators or a new commissioner
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  Speaker 2: for our volunteers, Mel Compton, who is our first female
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  Speaker 2: commissioner in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome, wonderful news. And I'm sure that you
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  Speaker 1: know that what you'd done this morning for doctor Valerie
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  Speaker 1: ash as well. Such an incredible woman by the sounds averse,
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  Speaker 1: and no doubt you know, her family, friends, everybody who
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  Speaker 1: worked with her, would be really really tough to see
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  Speaker 1: her on it in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, her husband was here celebrating that with the
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  Speaker 2: daughter and one of their sons from interstate. So it's
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  Speaker 2: been a great morning and they're enjoying in Mo than
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  Speaker 2: team there as we speak. So when I finish here,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in there for the sausage rolls and fights.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, good stuff. Good on you, Craig Garaway. Always great
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you, mate, Thanks so much for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you.