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Matt Hepworth 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, Darwin
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  Speaker 1: homes On and Stuart Highway Berrimer.
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  Speaker 2: And Matt Hepworth filling in Forcati Wolf this morning. Joining
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  Speaker 2: on the line now is Craig Gara away from Saint John's.
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  Speaker 2: Get a Craig, Good morning, madey, how are you well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you friend. We've had a busy weekend, or should
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  Speaker 2: say paramedics have had a busy weekend. You've been out
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  Speaker 2: at the Madaranka camp draft, is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, has been very very busy across territory at
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  Speaker 1: Madearraineer was probably the hot spot of the weekend with
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  Speaker 1: the big camp draft going on. There a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people there and a lot of things happening with our
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  Speaker 1: volunteers and paramedics down there looking after everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like one of those incidents a three year old
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  Speaker 2: male fell onto hot coals and burned the palm of
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  Speaker 2: his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look that's my understanding at the moment on Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: I believe a bit of a burn elvesie nasty and
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  Speaker 1: nothing worse for a three year old boy that burns
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  Speaker 1: for the hand. So yeah, look, paramedics treated that little
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  Speaker 1: boy along with the owner health clinic and got him
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  Speaker 1: back to the Cavertan Hospital where he is being treated
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  Speaker 1: and looked after.
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  Speaker 2: What would be the immediate advice for someone in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we hope that we'd certainly never find ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in that position, But if we're talking burn injuries onto
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  Speaker 2: hot coals, what would be the first point of action there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's always cool, you don't cool the burn area,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously once you've been up to cool it
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  Speaker 1: down in shore, you cover it up until you get
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  Speaker 1: the appropriate treatment that you need from your local health
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  Speaker 1: clinic or the use of paramedicship required.
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  Speaker 2: On Saturday in the Douglas Daily Region, a three car crash,
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  Speaker 2: one person taken to Royal Dalen Hospital. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, it's strained out in the middle of nowhere. There
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  Speaker 1: are three cars colliding and a number of people involved
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  Speaker 1: in that. I believe there may have been off duty
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  Speaker 1: paramedic out in that area at the time and came
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  Speaker 1: across this incident. And my understanding is we did transport
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  Speaker 1: one person back into Dawn for treatment at the hospital and.
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  Speaker 2: Then a short time later and Hayes Craig g this
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  Speaker 2: one's scarier. Forty year old mail was rock climbing and
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  Speaker 2: fell some eight meters Craig.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the advice. I've had really nice area out
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  Speaker 1: the Hayes Creek in the back of the old pub there,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe a lot of people obviously use that
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  Speaker 1: to walk through and climb, and from my understanding it
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  Speaker 1: was about eight meter fall. I had a number of
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  Speaker 1: nasty fractures involved in that, and with careful what we
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  Speaker 1: coordinated for them to get out there in the helicopter
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  Speaker 1: and get him back into Roldne Hospital where I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's recovering and probably had a bit of surgery to
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  Speaker 1: try and fix those broken bones up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cronk, he's eight meters. That is a big fall.
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  Speaker 2: Back to Mattawanker. On Saturday afternoon, a forty seven year
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  Speaker 2: old Maile thrown from a horse at the camp draft.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, kept the guys busy out there, and a
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  Speaker 1: number of injuries, as you sort of expect from some
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  Speaker 1: of these camp drafts and rodeos in particular. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: forty seven year old male I believe may have had
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  Speaker 1: a fractured shoulder of some sort and has been brought
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  Speaker 1: back to Catherine to be treated. In the Cathrone Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: There Sunday evening that closer to home in Larakia, a
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  Speaker 2: car versus scooter incident.
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  Speaker 1: Craig, Yeah, we had one of our intensive care paramedic
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  Speaker 1: on scene there and my understanding as a person there
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  Speaker 1: has collided while riding a scooter with the car and
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  Speaker 1: has broken their ankle and required to go to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: I did see in the paper today some stuff in
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  Speaker 1: regard to the East Scooters. I'm not sure that this
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  Speaker 1: was an EES scooter or not, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: in third party insurance or something going on with the
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  Speaker 1: East Scooters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did note that as well. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they've gone above and beyond their insurance liabilities or the
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  Speaker 2: minimum threshold that they have to meet. So I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's some good news there. But sadly, we are almost
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  Speaker 2: on a weekly basis here of whether this case was
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  Speaker 2: one of the high ones or not. But almost on
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  Speaker 2: a weekly basis we do here of E scooter accidents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, make you right. And there's some classic YouTube videos
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  Speaker 1: out there of people who have had the misfortune of
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  Speaker 1: Rhino scooters and people have called it on camera, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: be careful and you're using them, be responsible and enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the scooters for what they are absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Just finally, Craig, before you go, I know we've got
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  Speaker 2: a busy dry season ahead. It's already started, many visitors
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  Speaker 2: in town, and we know some of your wonderful paramedics
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  Speaker 2: and volunteers are at a number of those major events
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  Speaker 2: throughout the dry season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at places buzzing along. Alice Springs is buzzing
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  Speaker 1: and Darlin's buzzing, and look we've got paramedics and volunteers
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  Speaker 1: attending events everywhere the dry season. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: thriving period of our time and it just really takes
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  Speaker 1: our time up with all those events. And it's great
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  Speaker 1: to have our volunteers going out and supporting the community
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  Speaker 1: and ensuring these events are able to be taking part in.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys do a wonderful job. And as you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned now, a lot of them at these events are volunteers. Now, Craig,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at the list of incidents you got
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  Speaker 2: called to this weekend. As far as I can see,
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  Speaker 2: nothing at the Nunamar Rodeo though.
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  Speaker 1: No, we had volunteers and paramedies out there as well,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing too serious occurred there from my understanding, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently booked out that event, like most of the events
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  Speaker 1: around at the moment, everything booked out and great crowd
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  Speaker 1: out there is my understanding.
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  Speaker 2: That is great news. Do you think if there was
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  Speaker 2: ever a place that someone could get injured or require
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  Speaker 2: some medical assistance, a rodeo would be at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the list.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. There's so much that can go
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  Speaker 1: wrong there. You've got bulls, you got horses, you got yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things that just could go wrong. But
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  Speaker 1: great event. That's rodeo at Munama and they get a
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  Speaker 1: great crowd.
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  Speaker 2: I know you said rodeo. There are you a rodeo
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  Speaker 2: or rodeo man?
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  Speaker 1: Rodeo rodeo?
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  Speaker 2: iiO rodea Derby Derby, Tomato Tomato.
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  Speaker 1: It's all the same, all the same. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, everyone knows what I was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon exactly. No confusion there. Oh, good on you, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: You guys do a wonderful job. Another busy weekend and
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  Speaker 2: all the best for the week ahead. We'll chaut to
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  Speaker 2: you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks mate, We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Craig. That's Craig Garaway from Saint John's there the
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  Speaker 2: Emergency Communications Center manager