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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one O four point nine one. Well,

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Speaker 1: he usually just catches up with us on a Monday.

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Speaker 1: But joining me on the line right now from Saint

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Speaker 1: John's it is Craig Garaway. Good morning to you, Craig Okad.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and twice in one week.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I was going to say the same, but well

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Speaker 1: and rightly so, because we know that there was actually

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Speaker 1: an incident Monday AVO about one thirty. We're a twenty

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Speaker 1: four year old man was bitten on the wrist by

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Speaker 1: a black whip snake. Tell us what happened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, this happened out at how It Springs that

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Speaker 3: near the dump area there or the tip.

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Speaker 2: Area on the main.

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Speaker 3: Road there, and a black whipsnake I believe has come

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Speaker 3: across an employee or a worker out there and bitten

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Speaker 3: him on the hand.

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Speaker 2: I believe.

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Speaker 3: Obviously this time of year we do get increased snake

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Speaker 3: bites with the change of weather and snakes start moving around,

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Speaker 3: and obviously with the rain as well that does start

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Speaker 3: to flush them out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so obviously this guy was bitten on the wrist. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: is he okay? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look they ran KiB below and we gave obviously

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Speaker 3: the appropriate advice over the bone for them, and they

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Speaker 3: treated him there while they waited for an ambulance and

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Speaker 3: he was transported up to the Royal Dale Hospital where

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Speaker 3: he's making a full recovery, which is great news.

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Speaker 1: We spoke last week to Rex Nindorf from the Reptile

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Speaker 1: Center down in Alice Springs and we were talking about

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Speaker 1: the increased volume of snakes around the place and I

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Speaker 1: was quite mortified following on from that discussion because he

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Speaker 1: was like, Katie, They're everywhere all of the time, you

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Speaker 1: just don't see them. And I thought, Wow, that's frightening

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Speaker 1: but also quite scary when you talk about injuries and

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Speaker 1: a really timely reminder really to make sure that we

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Speaker 1: do the right thing if we are unfortunate enough to

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Speaker 1: actually be bitten by a snake. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, Rex is an expert in that area.

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Speaker 2: I remember Rex from my time in our.

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Speaker 3: Springs and I actually attended Rex when he was written

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Speaker 3: by a king brown snake. He ended up very unwell. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he was very unwell for a long time after that.

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Speaker 3: It was actually his pet king ground for Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, they are very dangerous and we.

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Speaker 3: Do have the most poisonous snakes in the world, in

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Speaker 3: Australia and in particularly in the Northern Territory, so we

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Speaker 3: do need to be very careful, especially at night when

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Speaker 3: they're walking around outside. And Rex is right, they're out

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Speaker 3: there all the time.

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Speaker 2: It's just we don't see them.

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Speaker 3: And it's probably just because they're a little bit more

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Speaker 3: active now that we're starting to see them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so what's the best thing for us to do?

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Speaker 1: Obviously ring triple zero. But then I'm assuming that there

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Speaker 1: are some certain steps which are going to be pretty pivotal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. And the first thing is not to panic.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, if I was written by a snake, because I

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Speaker 3: just hate snake with a passion, I would panic. But

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Speaker 3: my advice to everyone else is don't just stake.

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Speaker 2: Can't relax.

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Speaker 3: The idea is to a mobilize the area, because we

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Speaker 3: don't want yourunning around and moving that if you have

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Speaker 3: been infaminated, moving out around your body. So the idea

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Speaker 3: is to obviously stay still, don't move the patient.

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Speaker 2: Obviously you've wrung triple zero.

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Speaker 3: And then the idea is to obviously bandage the site,

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Speaker 3: usually from the extremity back, so you know, if it's

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Speaker 3: on the hand we would start at the hand and

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Speaker 3: you know, bandage up towards the top of the arm,

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Speaker 3: or you know, if it's the foot from the foot

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Speaker 3: up and back. Don't wipe the area because we actually

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Speaker 3: want that area if there is vemination or you know,

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Speaker 3: some sort of poison there to still be there when

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Speaker 3: we get to hospital so they can actually test it.

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Speaker 3: It's really handy for the hospital be able to do

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Speaker 3: that and actually identify what snake has actually bit new

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Speaker 3: because the anti venom can can make you actually quite

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Speaker 3: not to wipe anything off, just to keep it splinter,

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Speaker 3: keep it still and keep it and bandage it up

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Speaker 3: with a compression bandage.

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Speaker 1: Very good vice, Craig. Is there a main type of

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Speaker 1: snake that you see the majority of snake bites from

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Speaker 1: up here in the top end or is it really varied?

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Speaker 2: I think it's varied.

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Speaker 3: If I was to talk about Central Australia, King Brown

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Speaker 3: seemed to be everywhere down there and would probably confirm that.

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Speaker 3: Top end wise, we have from a lock and gather,

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Speaker 3: we seem they have a lot more variety of snakes

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Speaker 2: But you know, I've.

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Speaker 3: Probably reported over the last two or three months a

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Speaker 3: number of snake bites, and they will probably just increase

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Speaker 3: with everything's going on, and they're different types of snake.

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Speaker 3: And the problem is, Katie, most people actually don't know

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Speaker 3: what snake bit them, and you know, half time they

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Speaker 3: don't even see the snake, that it is dark, and

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Speaker 3: they realize they're being bitten, but the snake's taken off.

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Speaker 1: So a bit of a variety, I think, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and this will sound like a you know, a real

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Speaker 1: novice thing to say, but I didn't even realize that

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Speaker 1: most of those bites happen at nighttime.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the reason for that is obviously we're

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Speaker 3: walking around at night dark and we just come across

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Speaker 3: snakes and you know, the snake doesn't have time to

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Speaker 3: get out of our way.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately we step on them. Obviously, during the.

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Speaker 3: Day daylight hours, it's more likely we're going to see

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Speaker 3: a snake and therefore.

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Speaker 2: We're going to avoid it. It's going to avoid.

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Speaker 3: Us because most snakes, from my understanding, just want to

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Speaker 2: They don't want to be around us, or they don't

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Speaker 2: want to attack us. They're just trying to get away.

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Speaker 2: And when they do buy it.

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Speaker 3: It's usually trying to self defense in most instances.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well there you go. Anything else we should be

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's just at a bit busy twenty

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Speaker 3: four hours. We had about five crashes across the NT

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Speaker 3: over the last twenty four hours and nothing to I

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Speaker 3: think a cow yesterday knocked the guy over in East

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Speaker 3: arm There number of injuries from that late in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: But we've had about and I've just thought one last thing.

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Speaker 3: We have had sixty snake related incidents in the last

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Speaker 3: twelve months, so probably you know, getting a couple of months,

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Speaker 3: but they were increase his time.

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Speaker 1: So sixty snake related incidents in the last twelve months.

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Speaker 1: And then you said you did you just say that

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Speaker 1: a cow knock somebody over.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we've got a problem with the animals at

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Speaker 3: the moment. They seem to be going berserk. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it look just happened about four o'cot yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I believe it.

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Speaker 3: I'm holding out at Bredair and I believe a cow

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Speaker 3: has sort of jammed someone between some gates and injured

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Speaker 3: their chest and knocked them to the ground. So currently

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Speaker 3: it's attended. Yeah, he's in a stable condition. I think

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Speaker 3: thirty four year old male from memory of MATHI fifty.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember anymore. It's my old age company. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: so he's recovering in hospital. But yeah, stay away from

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Speaker 3: the animals. They're sort of the heat's obviously impacting on

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Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness, mate, I do hope that he's okay. That'd

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Speaker 1: be bloody frightening. It sounds like you've been very busy,

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Speaker 1: Craig Garaway.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, I think all emergency service and health work

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Speaker 3: is right across the NTY and Australia at the time

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Speaker 3: with are really under the pump. So you know, my

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Speaker 3: heart goes out to everyone that's trying to make a

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Speaker 3: difference out there in a really hard environment.

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Speaker 1: Well, Craig Garaway, we appreciate your time. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: No worries, Katie, you have a great day. I'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you Monday.

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Speaker 1: You too, Thank you,