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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now is Telea Dawson,

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Speaker 1: Saint John Int, Manager of Emergency Communications and Systems. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Talah, Morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Hey, going not too bad, Talia. It looks like it's

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Speaker 1: been a busy weekend before we get there though. Obviously

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Speaker 1: police just confirming that they're responding and I'm assuming Saint

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Speaker 1: John as well, to a collision at the Humpty Doo

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Speaker 1: traffic lights.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So all emergency services have been on scene since

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Speaker 2: around just after nine point thirty and we're treating a

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Speaker 2: sixty year old male with a motorbike rider as a

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Speaker 2: result of that.

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Speaker 1: Internet Okay, so I'm sure we'll probably get some further

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Speaker 1: detail as the day goes on. Do we have any

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Speaker 1: idea if there were like, if there were other vehicles

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Speaker 1: involved at this point.

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Speaker 2: Or this point, it looks like a motorbike versus another vehicle,

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Speaker 2: But I believe the injuries and mainly to the motorbike

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Speaker 2: rider at this stage.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Talia will keep an eye on that. Now,

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Speaker 1: Let's move into some of the incident and set Saint

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Speaker 1: John were called out to over the long weekend. On

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Speaker 1: Friday out at Dundee, a vehicle with four occupants colliding

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Speaker 1: with a large power pole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty nasty this one, Katie. It was around ten

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Speaker 2: pm out at Dundee on the Bend there. There were

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Speaker 2: four occupants in the vehicle when it collided with the

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Speaker 2: powerpole at about eighty kilometers an hour. It's dislodged that

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Speaker 2: powerpole from the concrete that sort of past high mechanism.

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Speaker 2: Two patients were transported in a serious but stable condition

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Speaker 2: with CareFlight and another two patients were transported a by

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Speaker 2: road with Saint John. They did have a range of

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Speaker 2: injuries to their head, neck, leg, as you can imagine

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Speaker 2: from that kind of crash.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a nasty one, Talia. Then on Saturday in

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Speaker 1: the morning, east of Croger Island, a nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: was stung on the face by what was believed to

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Speaker 1: be an ira kanji jellyfish.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so the Emergency Communicy Center received this call. I

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Speaker 2: believe they were potentially out on the boat and he

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Speaker 2: was stung as just said, on the face, believed to

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Speaker 2: be by the rakanji. Transported by CareFlight who attended and

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Speaker 2: we handed them over to us at the airport and

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Speaker 2: continued his stable transport to the Royal darn.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, mate, it can be I mean, being stung by

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Speaker 1: an irakanji can be like fatal, can't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly it caused a significant resperu ery distress. So

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Speaker 2: this gentleman was extremely lucky.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it now. Then on Saturday on Baggett Road, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: another pedestrian strike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So this one, the patient was witnessed to have

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Speaker 2: walked across the traffic and it looks more like he's

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Speaker 2: walked into the vehicle that was traveling at about eighty

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Speaker 2: coves an hour. But again at that speech, hitting the

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Speaker 2: side of a vehicle does send them a little bit further.

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Speaker 2: So that patient was transported, thankfully in a stable condition,

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Speaker 2: again with soft tissue injury the leagus, the hands in

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Speaker 2: the face.

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Speaker 1: Very very lucky with that such. I mean it just

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Speaker 1: like along the road there, we just seemed to be

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Speaker 1: seeing more of those pedestrian strikes, and I think that

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Speaker 1: there needs to be some further work. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: who by, but to make sure that people understand the

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Speaker 1: dangers of you know, walking across that road and that

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Speaker 1: there are vehicles that are traveling incredibly quickly along there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, being an adk zone or the K zone.

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Speaker 2: Still quite significant to be struck even to the side

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Speaker 2: of a vehicle. Yep, you know, I don't know whether

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Speaker 2: it's lighting or signage or built pedestrian crossings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. We'll certainly continue to have a

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Speaker 1: discussion about it. Taliah. Then on Saturday night, by the

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Speaker 1: look of it, out at the Adelaide River Rodeo, a

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Speaker 1: twelve year old female fell from a steer, sustaining hip

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Speaker 1: and head injuries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So there was two young ones that were participating

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Speaker 2: in the rodeo and now volunteers and paramedics being out

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Speaker 2: hit fall of them the steers. She had hip and

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Speaker 2: head injuries that were stable and sick. Seen year old

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Speaker 2: male later presented after probably the adrenaline war off and

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Speaker 2: presented with a dislocated shoulder. So they were both treated

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Speaker 2: and transported together up to World Dal and event staff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to hear that they had, you know,

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Speaker 1: support while waiting for you guys. Now tell me. On Sunday, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: two incidents of assault against staff now tomorrow, I believe

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Speaker 1: is actually the day where we should be thanking our

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Speaker 1: first responders, but unfortunately, you guys continuing to have to

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Speaker 2: No exactly. You know, staff go to work to save

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Speaker 2: lives and to do their jobs, not to be assaulted.

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Speaker 2: So again a reminder, hands off our paramedics. You know,

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Speaker 2: Coconut Grove, one of our female paramedics, was struck with

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Speaker 2: a closed fist to the torso and you know it's

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Speaker 2: not what they go to work to experience. They're there

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Speaker 2: to save lives and help people and it's deplorable to

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Speaker 2: thrown at an ambulance and Catherine thankfully no injuries of damage,

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Speaker 2: but you know, it adds to the violence that we're

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me, you know, in terms of you know

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Speaker 1: is that personal? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yes? And she's receiving support.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's just like it is just unacceptable behavior,

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Speaker 1: you know, absolutely, there's no other way to put it,

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Speaker 1: and you shouldn't have to deal with that when you're

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Speaker 2: No, definitely not. And you know police are there on

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Speaker 2: scene with us with that one and assisted us in

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Speaker 2: transporting the patient. But you know, our paramedics, that is

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Speaker 2: their main concern is always for the patients that they're treating,

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Speaker 2: also themselves, but you know then they have to worry

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Speaker 2: about themselves a lot of these days, and it's disgusting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's disgusting and unacceptable behavior. Taliah. Before

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Speaker 1: I let you go, I know that the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: there were so many events on over the weekend and

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Speaker 1: obviously fantastic for all of us to be able to

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Speaker 1: attend all of those wonderful events, but I know it

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Speaker 1: means a busy weekend for you guys as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: the Pink Desert Race, the Glenty, the Beer Can Regatta,

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Speaker 1: you name it. It was all happening. In terms of

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Speaker 1: there is injuries, There's always going to be injuries. How

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Speaker 1: did it go from your perspective?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean from the reports that we'd received, it was,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's always improved on previous years, and you

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Speaker 2: know there was no major spectator into it this year,

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Speaker 2: and in fact that we've been asked to shout out

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Speaker 2: assisting to the race control and our medical team calling

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Speaker 2: an events and you know, hitting all of the safety requirements.

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Speaker 2: So as it a fantastic year. I think injury numbers

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Speaker 2: seen in previous years. We treated about fifty patients and

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Speaker 2: transported over thirty of them to the hospital over the

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Speaker 2: three days. There's probably about you know, fifteen to twenty

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Speaker 2: per day that made up of the normal fractures and dislocations. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: one did suffer a serious head injury on the Sunday

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Speaker 2: was then transported onto Adelaide, and just yesterday one with

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Speaker 2: quite a significant fructured FEMA. But these are tough buggers,

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Speaker 2: I'll say. Most of them turned up I think at

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Speaker 2: the last day at the tents, you know, battered and bruised,

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Speaker 2: and I think one refused to seek treatment until he'd

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Speaker 2: to them, but you know, we really want to thank

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Speaker 2: all of our amazing staff and the volunteers who've been

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Speaker 2: working entirely across the Northern Territory this weekend. As you said,

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Speaker 2: number of events, the Roneos Beer Can Regatta. You know

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Speaker 2: they're not just they're treating those that into themselves, but

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Speaker 2: we have you know, they were coming up and strapping

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Speaker 2: people for their rides and you know everyone chipped in

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Speaker 2: and couldn't go ahead without them. So, as you said,

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Speaker 2: thank us first responder today tomorrow. So if you see

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Speaker 2: a first responder out, say thank you for their hard

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Speaker 2: work and their dedication. They truly make a difference every

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Speaker 2: single day.

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Speaker 1: They really really do. Taliah Dawson, it is wonderful to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you as always. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You two