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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: Joining us live on the line right now from Saint John's.
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  Speaker 1: It is Craig Garaway, the manager of the Emergency Communications Center.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to.
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  Speaker 2: You, Craig, Yeah, good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: How are you not too bad? Craig. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: always a busy weekend for you guys, but unfortunately a
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  Speaker 1: really busy weekend over the weekend and some pretty tragic
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  Speaker 1: news Friday, about eight pm on the Victoria Highway a
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  Speaker 1: two car motor vehicle accident. Unfortunately one person passed away
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  Speaker 1: at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, was a sad start to the weekend. And
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  Speaker 2: our Catherine crew and the Victoria River Health Clinic there
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  Speaker 2: attended that incident. We ended up transporting a person back
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  Speaker 2: to the Catherine District Hospital, but unfortunately person did pass
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  Speaker 2: away at that scene, and like I said, wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: good start to the weekend. But you know, good work
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  Speaker 2: to all the people who had to respond to that
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  Speaker 2: out in quite a remote area about two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty chilometers from Katherine from memory.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, Craig, I also know at Gunpoint Beach a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old mail fell off the tray of a
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  Speaker 1: moving vehicle. Talk us through what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, Gunpoint. We have a lot of work out
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  Speaker 2: at Gunpoints and over the years it's been a popular
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  Speaker 2: spot and over a weekend and unfortunately again on early
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, just after midnight, we did have a seventeen
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  Speaker 2: year old male as my understanding, it's fallen off the
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  Speaker 2: back of the vehicle out on the beach area there
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  Speaker 2: has sustained head injuries and we dispatched paramedics and our
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  Speaker 2: critical response unit out to there at that location. They
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  Speaker 2: stabilized this mail and Care Flight came in with a
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  Speaker 2: helicopter and assisted us for assisted transporting that patient back
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  Speaker 2: to the Royal day On Hospital. So great work by everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously again remote an hour out of town and on
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  Speaker 2: the beach, and everyone was able to come together to
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  Speaker 2: make all that work really well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well done to everybody involved, Craig. On Saturday at
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  Speaker 1: Berry Springs there was a house fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there have an unusual on three people in that house,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you that they were all able to get
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  Speaker 2: out of that house, but they did all suffer a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of smoke in elation, so apparently it to
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  Speaker 2: get a tand along with fire and police and just
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  Speaker 2: treated those three people. They didn't need to go to hospital,
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  Speaker 2: but just needed some treatment on soon.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there is always so much work
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  Speaker 1: that our wonderful volunteers do right across the board and
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  Speaker 1: Saint John is no exception. The volunteers have been working
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  Speaker 1: so hard at different events and that is really going
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  Speaker 1: to get busier and busier for them now that the
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  Speaker 1: dry season's kicked in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, this was probably the first weekend of the
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  Speaker 2: dry where all those events have really taken off. And
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  Speaker 2: without our volunteers and all the great work they do
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  Speaker 2: to support those events, a lot of these events can't
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  Speaker 2: actually operate. So thank you to all our volunteers and
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  Speaker 2: anyone out there that wants to become a volunteer, give
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  Speaker 2: us a call and we'll explain how the process works
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  Speaker 2: and give them the appropriate training and get them out
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  Speaker 2: to these events where they can start supporting the community.
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  Speaker 1: Greig Garraway, it's always good to catch up with you, mate,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Katie really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That is Craig Garraway there, the manager of
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  Speaker 1: the Emergency Communications Center for Saint John