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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: Mix one at four point nine dot com for all
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  Speaker 1: the latest news and information now three sixty with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us on the line right now is the Emergency
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  Speaker 2: Communications Center manager for Saint John Paramedics. Good morning to
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  Speaker 2: Craig Garaway.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Really well, Craig. I know it was a busy
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  Speaker 2: weekend for you with the number of incidents that we call.
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  Speaker 2: Will you're called out to before we get into those,
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  Speaker 2: can I just ask how did you go? Did you
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  Speaker 2: have your volunteers at Base in the Grass and various
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  Speaker 2: other events on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, Katie, National Volunteer International Volunteer Week this week,
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  Speaker 3: and yes, we had I think twenty five volunteers helping
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  Speaker 3: out along with paramedics and other staff at Base in
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  Speaker 3: the Grass. I actually did the drags on Survey night.
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  Speaker 3: We have four volunteers out there helping us with the drags.
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  Speaker 3: And so look, our volunteers are out and about a
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  Speaker 3: lot of events on with that dry season. Now, how
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  Speaker 3: everyone's trying to run an event and they need volunteers,
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  Speaker 3: so please you know when you see them walk up
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  Speaker 3: and say thank you because they're giving up their time
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  Speaker 3: with their families to be there to ensure you have
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  Speaker 3: a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and doing a phenomenal job always, Craig, was there
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  Speaker 2: anything that they are any concerns for the map based
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  Speaker 2: in the grass well for you guys at the drags
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that, or did everything run pretty smoothly?
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  Speaker 3: No, I need things ran pretty smoothly. Obviously a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people and you always have incidences and there will
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  Speaker 3: always be something going on. But our volunteers are very
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  Speaker 3: well trained along with our paramedics, and you know what
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  Speaker 3: we probably thinks are pretty major, they take it in
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  Speaker 3: their stride and so you know a lot of cups
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  Speaker 3: and bruises and you know, probably with the dehydration and
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  Speaker 3: things like that, people not bring enough water. So nothing
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  Speaker 3: too serious, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about well some of the terrible incidents
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  Speaker 2: that your crews had to attend on the weekend. Firstly,
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday in Jabaru, there was a single vehicle crash.
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  Speaker 2: A person was trapped in the vehicle which was on fire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, not a great start to National Road Safety
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  Speaker 3: Week really, but we did have a lot of crashes
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  Speaker 3: across the territory and you're right out at Jabaru. This
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  Speaker 3: vehicle has rolled over. A male person was trapped in
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  Speaker 3: that vehicle for a period of time and the vehicle
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  Speaker 3: did catch on fire. Thankfully he was able to release
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  Speaker 3: himself from that vehicle. We obviously responded the health clinic
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  Speaker 3: from out there. Carefulight worked with us and we saw
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  Speaker 3: the coordinated through our Triple Low call center to ensure
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  Speaker 3: the appropriate people got to him and got him back
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  Speaker 3: to care. So very lucky escape, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like it Sunday morning, two twenty am
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  Speaker 2: in Aloa a two car motor vehicle crash, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of damage to the vehicle, very sadly and as has
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  Speaker 2: been widely reported, we know that one person passed away
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  Speaker 2: at the scene, four others were transported to hospital. Sounds
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  Speaker 2: like it would have been a difficult one for our paramedics.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at tragic incident and obviously a fair bit
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  Speaker 3: of damage there. Four people required transport to the Royal
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  Speaker 3: Daln Hospital. We had to bring additional resources in to
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  Speaker 3: help cope with that and everything else that was sort
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  Speaker 3: of going on at the time. But yeah, look, paramedics,
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  Speaker 3: police buy you know, everyone did a fantastic job with
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  Speaker 3: that incident, and obviously police will be investigating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, doubt full investigation underway. And look, I know
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  Speaker 2: we don't expect you to go into any sort of detail,
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  Speaker 2: but Craig, it must be tough, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about that number of people who've been injured, triarging
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  Speaker 2: everybody on the scene, you know when you first arrive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it is. It's one of the big complex
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  Speaker 3: processes that parameds have to go through because it's not
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  Speaker 3: just the people. You know, we talk about the four
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  Speaker 3: people that were injured, but there are other people who
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  Speaker 3: are uninjured. There's bystanders. Obviously a lot of people become involved.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, for police, fire and paramieds, it's all
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  Speaker 3: about trying to control the scene and manage the scene
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  Speaker 3: and at the same time trying to give the best
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  Speaker 3: care to the patient. So yeah, it's not a matter
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  Speaker 3: of just running in and looking after the people that
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  Speaker 3: are injured. It's about the whole complex situation that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. In Howard Springs, then later in the day, a
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  Speaker 2: fifty three year old female went over the handbrakes of
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  Speaker 2: a dirt bike and sustained a number of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, she did go over the handlebars at the back
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  Speaker 3: of the prison there, I believe, out in the bush area,
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  Speaker 3: and we also so we attended that one, and pretty
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  Speaker 3: much straight after that out on Gunpoint Road in the
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  Speaker 3: same area there, we had a vehicle there roll over
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  Speaker 3: the male there with shoulder injuries, a couple of fractures
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  Speaker 3: I believe, and he was transferred at the hospital as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I think last weekend we had four motorcycle accidents
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  Speaker 3: out in the rural area, and obviously this weekend we've
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  Speaker 3: had a few more. So, yeah, be careful that they got. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you said behind the prison. Was it anything to
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  Speaker 2: do with the prison although just riding behind there?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, there's fair few tracks out and about in
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  Speaker 3: that Howard Springs area and basically right across to Robertson Barracks.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of the tracks in that area. I
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  Speaker 3: used to ride them myselfs So, yeah, nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with the prison.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, at nine o'clock. Then last night, sorry, on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night in Nunamar, a fifty year old male came off
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  Speaker 2: a bike and had a number of fingers amputated.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look this did happen last night, Katie and outside
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  Speaker 3: Nunama there. Yeah, you're right, and my understanding is quite
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  Speaker 3: traumatic injury to one of his hands, which did see
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  Speaker 3: a number of fingers partially amputated. Obviously paramedics got him
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  Speaker 3: to hospital where obviously they're working on his hand to
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  Speaker 3: try and do something with it. But yeah, a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a nasty incident and obviously quite aimful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it sounds like it. And Craig, as you mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 2: it is indeed National Road Safety Week kicked off yesterday. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: by the sounds of it, quite a few crashes there
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  Speaker 2: on that initial day, but a really good reminder for
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  Speaker 2: us all really to make sure that we're doing the
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  Speaker 2: right thing on our roads.
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  Speaker 3: Oh look at these, Katie. You know, seatbelts are the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing. Don't drink and drive. And you know
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  Speaker 3: people who are speeding that they increase the likelihood of
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  Speaker 3: having serious injury at an incident. And I think one
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  Speaker 3: of the biggest things there was Two things that really
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  Speaker 3: get on my goat at the moment is the amount
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  Speaker 3: of people who drive through red lights. I see this
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  Speaker 3: every morning coming to work, and people on their mobile phones.
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  Speaker 3: It is so frustrating. It takes your attention away from driving,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's going to kill someone, so be careful,
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  Speaker 3: stop doing it and just follow those rules.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, very sage advice and very important advice. Emergency
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  Speaker 2: Communications Center Manager Craig Garraway, it's always good to catch
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  Speaker 2: up with you. Thanks so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's been great talking to you, Katie. Thank thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you two.
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  Speaker 2: And well, I tell you what a couple of important
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  Speaker 2: weeks this week obviously National Road Safety Week, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also a Volunteer Week, and we know that there are
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  Speaker 2: so many wonderful volunteers, as Craig Garaway rightly pointed out there,
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  Speaker 2: particularly on a busy weekend like the one that we've
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  Speaker 2: just gone through, and you sometimes forget. You know that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these events just wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 2: happen if we didn't have wonderful volunteers like our Saint
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  Speaker 2: John Crue and there are so many others, So hats
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  Speaker 2: off to all of you who do volunteer. I would
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  Speaker 2: know that we're going to be speaking more about that
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week as well.