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Katie Woolf spoke with Emergency Communications Centre Manager Craig Garraway · 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: Joining us on the line right now, though, is Craig Garaway,
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  Speaker 1: the manager of the Emergency Communications Center for Saint John.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Craig.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 2: How are you very well? Mate? A busy weekend by
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  Speaker 2: the sounds of it, flat out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look at WAT was flat out considering a lot
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  Speaker 3: of events were canceled over the weekend, but our other
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  Speaker 3: workload really picked up and kept our parently, it's busy
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  Speaker 3: right across the territory.
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  Speaker 1: And I know your crew's told us ten crashes and
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  Speaker 1: eight people taken to hospital across the territory.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that is quite a large number, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah it is, but you know, it seems to
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  Speaker 3: be the average at the moment for crashes over a weekend,
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  Speaker 3: you know, ten to fifteen, and which is disappointing obviously
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  Speaker 3: that we're averaging that probably on the weekend, whether they
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  Speaker 3: be minor bengals or more serious incidents than a couple
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  Speaker 3: of the ones that we'll talk about are a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more serious than the Bengals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's go through those.
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  Speaker 1: Two thirty in the morning on Gorge Road in Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: a single vehicle rollover, three people involved. Two of them
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  Speaker 1: had to be transported to Catherine District Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they did. And this obviously happened a little bit
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  Speaker 3: out of town there, and two of the people were
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  Speaker 3: seriously injured, but they are recovering. The third person wasn't
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  Speaker 3: injured at all, So very lucky there. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a good start to our weekend right across the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Two thirty in the morning. I mean, were they tourists
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  Speaker 2: or do we?
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's probably not a huge deal of information
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  Speaker 1: that you can go into, but two thirty in the
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  Speaker 1: morning is.
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  Speaker 2: Not a good time.
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  Speaker 3: I believe they were locals, know what I understanding, as
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  Speaker 3: they were locals, but I don't have all that information
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  Speaker 3: in front of me. But I don't believe they were
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  Speaker 3: in the tourists, not all.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty then in the morning on Saturday on Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Brenn and drive in Pinelands, are you went off the
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  Speaker 1: road and into the median strip? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I came across this one about nine o'clock. I
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  Speaker 3: was a fever. The damage there, it's just as you
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  Speaker 3: go under the fly over there on Tiger Burne Drive
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  Speaker 3: near Palmerston, a car has gone off the road into
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  Speaker 3: the mediumship collide with quite a large tree actually, and
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  Speaker 3: I believe has rolled over. The information I have is
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  Speaker 3: that the first involved was thrown out of that vehicle
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  Speaker 3: and sustaining a number of serious injuries, and paramede, fire
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  Speaker 3: and plaere all responded to that and obviously got into
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  Speaker 3: the hospital in a timely fashion so he could be
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  Speaker 3: treated appropriately at the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good, lucky, lucky that that is the case.
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  Speaker 3: It was was thrown out of the car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, bloody hell.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you think of it like, that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty horrific thing that's happened there. And lucky
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  Speaker 1: that he is in a situation where he's now recovering in.
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  Speaker 3: RDH yeah, lot one hundred case speed limit there, so
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  Speaker 3: obviously you know, large impact and obviously when you've been
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  Speaker 3: thrown out of vehicle at that speed, you're lucky that
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  Speaker 3: you're able to get to hospital and recover. I suppose
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  Speaker 3: probably the best way for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Hey, I know that there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: tourists on the highway. There's a lot of cars around,
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  Speaker 1: but lots of caravans and that kind of thing as well,
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  Speaker 1: something that Saint John's pretty you know, sort of urging
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  Speaker 1: people to just slow down and be patient about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I went down Alice the other week income on
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  Speaker 3: the way down back and a lot of traffic on
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  Speaker 3: the road that you said, Katie, and it does interrupt
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  Speaker 3: your trip a fair bit. And I did notice a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people becoming frustrated and probably taking on the
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  Speaker 3: moves that they should never have taken on. So slow down,
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  Speaker 3: you know, get there in one piece, and you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to have anything bad happen to you on the way,
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  Speaker 3: and you just need to be more patient.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Garaway from Saint John's always good to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, you too, Katie. You have
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  Speaker 2: a great week, you too.
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  Speaker 1: Greig Garaway there the manager of the emergency communications center
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  Speaker 1: with Saint John, and uh and yeah, they're always incredibly busy,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But but yeah, you know the
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  Speaker 1: fact that ten crashes over the weekend, eight people taken
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  Speaker 1: to hospital across the territory, and that's sort of you know,
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  Speaker 1: that is something that's that's a fairly normal weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's a it's a concern