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Katie Woolf spoke with Emergency Communications Centre Northern Regional Manager Andrew Everingham · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Kay Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Every one is listening mixed one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: It is just on twenty five minutes after ten o'clock
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  Speaker 1: and if you would like to call through this morning,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine four one one oh four nine is the number.
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  Speaker 1: But usually on a Monday we find out how Saint
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  Speaker 1: John Ambulance and our paramedics have fared over the course
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend. But we're doing it on a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: given the fact that it was the Easter long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us on the line right now, Emergency Communications
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  Speaker 1: Center Northern Regional Manager Andrew Everingham, Good morning to you, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katy. How are you going?
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  Speaker 1: Not too bad busy weekend for our paramedics and for
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  Speaker 1: our ambos on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks very busy. I think given it was
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  Speaker 2: over the four days in the issue break, I think
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  Speaker 2: we didn't see as many major cases as we may
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  Speaker 2: have expected, so or and all, I think we've had
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  Speaker 2: a fairly well behaved each weekend by the territories, which
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  Speaker 2: has been fantastic for up Well.
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  Speaker 1: That is good to hear.
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  Speaker 2: I know though.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, well about eleven thirty in the evening on
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  Speaker 1: Wood Straight, Darwin City, a nineteen year old male fell
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  Speaker 1: between two buildings trying to access his residents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an interesting one. We responded to the
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  Speaker 2: case where the male looks like he'd been out for
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  Speaker 2: the day, wasn't able to access his residents, had decided
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  Speaker 2: then to traverse between two buildings. It's about three meters
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  Speaker 2: high on a pipe. He slipped on that pipe and
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  Speaker 2: his score and three meters between those buildings. He's thankfully
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  Speaker 2: landed on his feet and he's managed to sort of
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  Speaker 2: get to his mobile phone and obviously call Triple zero
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  Speaker 2: for assistant. He was able to be extricated with the
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  Speaker 2: assystems of empty police and he was transported with fairly
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  Speaker 2: minor injuries, which is very lucky considering the mechanism involved
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  Speaker 2: the potential for injury.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness me very lucky. Indeed, so relatively relatively minor injuries,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I think in the end it was sort
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  Speaker 2: of more cut to brazins and bruising that they have
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  Speaker 2: potential for some serious injuries given given the height and
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  Speaker 2: given the situation involved.
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  Speaker 1: And on that same day. On Good Friday five point fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon at the Litchfield National Park, hiker fell
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  Speaker 1: and sustained some minor injuries as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this ended up been quite a complete case. We
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  Speaker 2: ranges with the help of rangers, Anti police and the
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  Speaker 2: Bachelor Clinic. They tried to access that patient and even
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  Speaker 2: carefight was involved as well, but they are unable to
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  Speaker 2: get into that patient during the night, so I was
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  Speaker 2: until the next morning the police have actually accessed along
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  Speaker 2: the trail and been able to extricate and bring that
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  Speaker 2: patient out who had some relatively minor injuries but enough
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  Speaker 2: that needed assistance. And so basually St. John's were just
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  Speaker 2: involved in the transport of that patient, but terrific efforts
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  Speaker 2: by police, ranges and the Bachelor Clinic to get that
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  Speaker 2: patient out of such a difficult location.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon. And then on Monday, twenty four year
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  Speaker 1: old Mail climb seven stories and jumped approximately two meters
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  Speaker 1: across to another pole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is another one, you know, like I spoke
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  Speaker 2: about with the earlier with the fall between the buildings,
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  Speaker 2: this is another one that could have had had the potential,
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  Speaker 2: sorry to be quite quite a serious case and potential
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  Speaker 2: for some serious injuries. So, yeah, this male has decided
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  Speaker 2: to climb up quite high on the building and then
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  Speaker 2: he has made the jump. I think it was a
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  Speaker 2: big crowd that has gathered to watch this so thankfully
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  Speaker 2: made that jump and he's been able to be brought
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  Speaker 2: back down to the ground and with the bisiness of police.
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  Speaker 2: And there's John our Cruise who was transported for further
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  Speaker 2: assessment at Ardie Yates but again thankfully no major injuries
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  Speaker 2: in this time.
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  Speaker 1: Any idea what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look, I'm not sure what was going on through
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  Speaker 2: what was going on in his head at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I think he's had a fairly large
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  Speaker 2: day and obviously wanted to be a bit more at adventure
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  Speaker 2: and in some excitement, but put himself and out of
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  Speaker 2: a great risk by taking those taking those steps quite
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  Speaker 2: I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then nine point thirty yesterday morning on white
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  Speaker 1: Wood Rode in Howard Springs, a seventeen year old male
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  Speaker 1: was in a single vehicle rollover.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think this is a tail of the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, a lot of potential for some serious
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  Speaker 2: injuries and it just thankfully didn't eventuate. But yeah, seventy
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  Speaker 2: year old male was driving and he's left the road
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  Speaker 2: and entered the colvert and he's actually rolled the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: He was partially ejected from that vehicle and just thankfully
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  Speaker 2: he's also been transported to hospital with relatively minor injuries
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  Speaker 2: and he's in stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, he is very lucky by the sounds of things.
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  Speaker 1: And then yeah, five point fifteen in the afternoon at
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  Speaker 1: East Point, seventy two year old male sustained some nasty
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  Speaker 1: lacerations to the hand from a model helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So obviously he's out there enjoying himself at the
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  Speaker 2: East Point Aerodrome there and having some good fun with
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  Speaker 2: his model aeroplane or sorry helicopter in this stage, and
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  Speaker 2: however he's managed to do it. He's it's clipped his
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  Speaker 2: hand and so it's actually called some quite serious laceration
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  Speaker 2: to one of his hands, which has obviously caused a
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  Speaker 2: bit of concern for all those around it himself, but
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  Speaker 2: thankfully they're able to control the bleeding on site with
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  Speaker 2: some direction from our medicine communications operators and ambulance has
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  Speaker 2: transported that mail and a stable condition through to the
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  Speaker 2: World Done hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I hope he's all right. Goodness meet. Out of
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  Speaker 1: all of those instances over the weekend that we've just
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  Speaker 1: spoken about, that is the one that I would have
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  Speaker 1: anticipated had had the less serious injury, And unfortunately for
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  Speaker 1: that seventy two year old, actually sounds like it was
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  Speaker 1: the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the way it goes sometime, so yeah, but thankfully, look,
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  Speaker 2: all and all, just fite those a few incidents. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everyone being quite you know, we're quite luckily
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend we've been really well behaved motorists. People
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  Speaker 2: have been behaving themselves out when they're having a good
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  Speaker 2: time and camping around the place. So yeah, and all,
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  Speaker 2: we just want to thank the territories for having a
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  Speaker 2: safe and happy Easter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and thank you for obviously making sure and all
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  Speaker 1: of our paramedics and everybody in the call center and
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  Speaker 1: everyone else at Saint John for making sure that those
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  Speaker 1: who did obviously end up in not such great situations
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  Speaker 1: that you are there to assist.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Andrew. We'll talk to you again soon.
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  Speaker 1: That's Andrew Everingham. Here is the Emergency Communications Center Northern
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  Speaker 1: Regional Manager.