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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: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at mixed
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  Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com. You Craig Garaway, the
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  Speaker 1: manager of Emergency Communications Center for Saint John Paramedics. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, Craig. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning Katie. Thanks to you. I thought i'd
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  Speaker 2: just lost you there.
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  Speaker 1: But haven't spoken to you for a little while. Have
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  Speaker 1: you had a break?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of weeks off doing a few trying
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  Speaker 2: to get down to Brisbane and do a bit o.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you got back on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you mate. You're a busy man and well
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  Speaker 1: deserved break, I'm sure now, Craig. Speaking of busy, it
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  Speaker 1: was a busy one for you guys. On the weekend Friday,
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  Speaker 1: Well at Dundee a fifty six year old male fell
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  Speaker 1: three meters and had a still beam fall on top
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look fairway out of town. Obviously, this incident happened,
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  Speaker 2: and quite a strange one. He's fallen and the still beam,
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  Speaker 2: obviously I assume he was working on, has come down
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  Speaker 2: and camped him on the head, I believe, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: require paramedics to go out and check him out and
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  Speaker 2: getting back into the hospital where he could recover. So yeah, lucky,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, obviously a long way out and it's
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  Speaker 2: a lucky good result in the end that he's recovering
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  Speaker 2: in hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Well wow, So any idea if he like, was he
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  Speaker 1: building something or what was the situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not really sure. I don't have that information in
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  Speaker 2: front of me at the moment, but yeah, not too
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  Speaker 2: sure exactly how it's all transpired.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but he is looking as though he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, he's recovering quite well in hospital.
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  Speaker 1: That is lucky by the sounds of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: On Saturday, about two o'clock in the afternoon Saturday, a
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  Speaker 1: six year old female was stung by a jellyfish had
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  Speaker 1: to be transported to the go of hospital. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it just happened about fifteen k's out of Numan boy,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we've spoken a few times this year
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  Speaker 2: about these jellyfish things and another young girl you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously stung, very excruciating painful injury. These I've unluckily had
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  Speaker 2: it happened to me, and it is horrible and I
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  Speaker 2: can leave severe scarring and obviously death in the severe cases.
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  Speaker 2: So yep, she's recovering well, which is good. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's the reminder Katie that April through sorry, October through
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  Speaker 2: the April is stinger season and we should be probably
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay out of the water or make sure
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  Speaker 2: that we're protected when we are in there if we
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  Speaker 2: do need to be in the end of the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good advice, I know. On Sunday as well,
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  Speaker 1: out of Victoria River, a twenty four year old male
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  Speaker 1: was bitten by a brown snake.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had a lot of these this year, Codie,
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  Speaker 2: right across the territory El Spring Dah and you know,
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  Speaker 2: now out in Victoria River area, people obviously bitten. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of rain this year, so a lot of growth,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I suppose a lot of food out
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  Speaker 2: there for snakes, so they're moving around and unfortunately this
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  Speaker 2: guy got bitten, but my understanding is didn't show any
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  Speaker 2: side effects, but was transported to the hospital just in case,
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  Speaker 2: and the station owner actually met the paramedics along the
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  Speaker 2: way and we got into the hospital where he could
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  Speaker 2: be monitored to make sure he wasn't in veminated.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a very well, a pretty dire situation
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  Speaker 1: when somebody is bitten by a brown snake can't it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you know, brown snakes that leave you know, can
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  Speaker 2: obviously kill you. They are very toxic venom and they
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  Speaker 2: do leave quite nasty long term injuries just from the
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  Speaker 2: toxic toxicity the poison. Has been trouble getting that word
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, when you say that's all right, when you say,
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  Speaker 1: like long term injuries, when somebody is bitten by a
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  Speaker 1: snake like that, what kind of long term injuries do
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  Speaker 1: you sort of have to deal with them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of it is about, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: kills the skins, kills tissue. Like I said, the toxicity
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  Speaker 2: of the venom can be quite nasty on a number
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  Speaker 2: of your organs and obviously your tissue. So yeah, itok,
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  Speaker 2: depends on how bad the in vemination is, because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of snake bites actually don't veminate. It's more of
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  Speaker 2: a scare tactic. You know, snakes, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a defensive but you know, obviously if you do get inveminated,
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  Speaker 2: that's where the problems starts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Craig. Just lastly, some good news Sunday nine am.
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  Speaker 1: By the look of it, was there a Pineland's a
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  Speaker 1: baby had to be delivered in the parents car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, they were heading to hospital, and obviously what
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  Speaker 2: I understanding is Bob didn't want to wait to get
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  Speaker 2: the hospital and decided that the best place to come
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  Speaker 2: with is obviously a mumba's car, and paramedics met them
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  Speaker 2: on the side of the road around Pineland there and
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  Speaker 2: assisted mum and dad with the delivery, and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: a little baby boy transported the hospital with mum to
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  Speaker 2: just get a check up and make sure everything's good.
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  Speaker 1: So goodness made do you know if she was the
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  Speaker 1: first time mum?
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  Speaker 2: I think number three, Oh so at.
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  Speaker 1: Least at least used or at least sort of added
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  Speaker 1: of an understanding of what to expect.
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  Speaker 2: She knew what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh goodness, mate, they're always you know, it's always
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  Speaker 1: such a nice story when a baby is born, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it's on the side of the road,
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  Speaker 1: you want to make sure that everything is okay and
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  Speaker 1: that that baby is all right. And by the sounds
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  Speaker 1: of it, both mum and baby boy in good health.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, everyone's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good stuff well, Craig Garraway, great to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with your mate. We'll talk to you again next week.
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  Speaker 2: You too, Cody thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good week. That is Craig Garaway there, the
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  Speaker 1: manager of the emergency communications Center Fort Saint John