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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 thanks to Joyce Main, Dowin
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  Speaker 1: Homes and Stuart Highway, Bevera Matte. It's fourteen minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from eleven o'clock and I do apologize we're running a
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  Speaker 1: little bit late this morning. And joining me live on
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  Speaker 1: the line right now is Craig garaway from Saint John Ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning kat How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very well, Sorry we're running late this morning, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty happening, no doubt around the place, and you guys
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  Speaker 1: are always busy. But on Saturday there was a situation
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  Speaker 1: about forty kilometers outside of Catherine, a car colliding with
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  Speaker 1: a motorbike.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's happened just at the Edith Balls there.
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  Speaker 2: I believe car and a motorbike collides. We haven't met
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  Speaker 2: ninety foters from now, so very lucky gentlemen on that motorbike.
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  Speaker 2: He did receive a number of injuries and transported to
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  Speaker 2: Capitol District Hospital, but not like for any injuries thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very lucky. Now mate, This next incident, it is
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  Speaker 1: a strange one. A seventy year old man fell down
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  Speaker 1: a one meter hole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the information I have, and I believe he
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  Speaker 2: may have knocked himself out when that happened. So Parameter
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  Speaker 2: teened it out there, thankfully, not too serious and he
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  Speaker 2: was okay. When we got out there, we'd be transford
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  Speaker 2: him into the rawald In Hospital where it's recovering quite well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, bit of an unusual incident.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the poor bugger. Whereabouts did that happen?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that had Dundee area somewhere. I don't have the
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  Speaker 2: exactly ocation. I believe it was going a property out there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just shows your guarding if that's what he
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  Speaker 2: was doing, is probably an unhealthy.
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  Speaker 1: After don't do it. Stay away from the gard exactly,
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  Speaker 1: just any doorsy hard work really, Yeah, try your best
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  Speaker 1: to avoid it. Oh, dear, that's I hope that he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know that sounds like a terrible accident.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, and he's like lucky, he's recovering quite well.
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  Speaker 2: And a bit of a shock for him, I think. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, on Sunday as well, early in the morning or
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  Speaker 1: about eleven o'clock in the morning in Parmas, there was
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  Speaker 1: a car which struck a tree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ran into a tree. Mid after mid morning, ran
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  Speaker 2: into a tree there for the eight year old male
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  Speaker 2: received the number of injuries gain not too serious, but
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  Speaker 2: was transported to the Royal Due Hospital professments and recovering
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  Speaker 2: there on Sunday afternoon and hopefully after he may have
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  Speaker 2: been released by now, but I don't have all that
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  Speaker 2: information with me just at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and then yesterday afternoon about three point thirty
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  Speaker 1: a house fire in Palmerston.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, this was put out by the time we
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  Speaker 2: got there fire service and that had been involved. But
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  Speaker 2: a lady had her head as a result of the fire.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure really what happened there, but a bit
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  Speaker 2: of spoken on the nation as well. But she was
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  Speaker 2: fine and we just looked after a little while and
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  Speaker 2: leased the fire, cleared up the scene.
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  Speaker 1: So did she end up having to be taken to
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  Speaker 1: hospital or you're able to.
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  Speaker 2: Train it in the end. I believe we just looked
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  Speaker 2: after at the instant site and made sure everything was okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she was okay.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness, And how how was that house?
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  Speaker 2: I believe was only smoke damage inside, no other damage,
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  Speaker 2: so that that's really good. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Then, of course last night we have reported on this one.
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  Speaker 1: This morning in Madaaranka a single vehicle rollover. The local
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  Speaker 1: clinic responded and what exactly had to happen out there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, just happened that, like you said, nine point
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  Speaker 2: thirty last night, a single vehicle rollover. Person was trapped
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  Speaker 2: in that vehicle, was unconscious and critically unwell. The clinic
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  Speaker 2: did an amazing job, got them back to the community
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  Speaker 2: there and paramedic consisted at the matter Rank clenty and
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  Speaker 2: we got the gentleman back to the Captine Airport where
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  Speaker 2: we met CareFlight. So good response by everyone involved and
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  Speaker 2: got the gentleman into the role. Dhotelo obviously in a
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  Speaker 2: critic position last night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like a very serious situation. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: also a really good example of how all of our
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  Speaker 1: emergency service crews are able to work together for the
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  Speaker 1: best outcome. Hopeful for that patient I was.
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  Speaker 2: You know, everyone worked fantastic together and being so remote
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  Speaker 2: the into we require the assistance of clinics and aeron
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  Speaker 2: medical resources along with our paramedic to get these things up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Craig Garaway, the manager of the Emergency Communications Center
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  Speaker 1: for Saint John, It's always good to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time today.
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  Speaker 2: Hurries Katie, thank you,