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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four

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Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin.

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Speaker 2: Joining us on the line right now is Saint John Ambulance,

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Speaker 2: Regional Manager of Northern Andrew Everingham. Good morning to you Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Mine Katy.

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Speaker 2: A very busy weekend, but tragedy in central Australia with

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Speaker 2: a man in his sixties passing away after being struck

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Speaker 2: by a vehicle watching the Fink Desert Race on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: I know that that obviously paramedics are on hand to

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Speaker 2: try and assist with all of those injuries of the

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Speaker 2: spectators as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, as you say, you know, a two week

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Speaker 1: tragic incident. On the weekend. At about nine thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: our vent medical staff responded to reports of spectators that

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Speaker 1: have been struck by vehicle thirty five kilometers down the

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Speaker 1: thin track. They identified our spectator who was in his

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Speaker 1: sixties that despite a team working on him, sadly pakaway's scene.

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Speaker 1: There's another male identified he's fifty who was seriously injured

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Speaker 1: and a woman in the fifties who received mynd injured.

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Speaker 1: Our event medical paramedics tendanccene and transported the male patient

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Speaker 1: via medi back by helicopter through to the Our Springs Hospital.

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Speaker 1: We are mindful of this as an ongoing police investigation,

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Speaker 1: so we can't give any further details that I've thought

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Speaker 1: are with all those of the affected by the incident.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, outcomes and an absolute tragedy, there is no doubt

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Speaker 2: about that. Do you have any idea the latest sort

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Speaker 2: of status update on those other spectators at this point,

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Speaker 2: Andrew or is there not a huge amount more at

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Speaker 2: this point?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, looks not a lot of information. I know that

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Speaker 1: there is a mail and the fifties will be transport

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Speaker 1: transported through to Adelaide via Raal find Doctor service in

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Speaker 1: stable condition. But you know, throughout the event it's a

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Speaker 1: huge event for us. You know, we attend into thirty

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Speaker 1: seven patients over the weekend, a long weekend, and twenty

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Speaker 1: seven of those were transported through to Our Springs further care.

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Speaker 1: This is a huge event, fir from John logistically, from

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Speaker 1: a resource and point of view, it's our biggest event.

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Speaker 1: We have five staff and volunteers out there, eight in

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Speaker 1: vehicles and free helicopters. So it's a huge event and

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Speaker 1: a massive event to the territory in Central Australia and

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Speaker 1: you know, we've always been proud to be a part

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Speaker 1: of it, but obviously today yesterday, Sorry, it's a tragic outcome,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's obviously affected a number of people

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Speaker 1: in the community and our stuff and volunteers as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is no doubt about that. It would be

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Speaker 2: such a tough thing. And Andrew, is I mean, is

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Speaker 2: this the first time that we've had a spectator fatality

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Speaker 2: at the think, well that.

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of. I've been involved an event for a

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Speaker 1: number of years, around ten years, so I'm not exactly sure.

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Speaker 1: I can't speak for sort of previous to that, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the most serious incident we've seen in a

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Speaker 1: number of years at the event. In the business that

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Speaker 1: we're in, we plan for these type of outcomes, but

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Speaker 1: we hope for the best, and unfortunately, yesterday, you know,

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Speaker 1: our worst nightmares came true and we did see that

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Speaker 1: critical incident. Yeah, it's devastating for everyone involved.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is it? I mean you said there as well,

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Speaker 2: thirty seven patients over the course of the weekend. We

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Speaker 2: all know that this type of what is a dangerous

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Speaker 2: kind of sport, But is it difficult then for you

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Speaker 2: guys in terms of transporting patients back to the Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs Hospital as well, you know, and triaging everybody because

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Speaker 2: that's such a large volume over a course of a weekend,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, you know, and that's why we have

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Speaker 1: the numbers of staff and the resources that we put

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Speaker 1: to this event. Those injuries and the patient presentation rates

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Speaker 1: are consistent with what we expected at that kind of event.

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Speaker 1: We've seen that over the previous years of the event.

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Speaker 1: We know. We do a lot of planning to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we've got the right numbers of up staff

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Speaker 1: and all through to the helicopters and our attensive care

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Speaker 1: paramedics through in race control to make sure that we

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Speaker 1: can respond and timely manage to these patients when they

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Speaker 1: fall off. And the injuries that we see are consistent

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Speaker 1: with you know, those most sort of events. We see

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Speaker 1: a lot of broken clavigal armed legs and musclow s,

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Speaker 1: filetal injuries and spiral patients as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it would have been such a busy weekend

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Speaker 2: for you guys. I know that you will work incredibly

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Speaker 2: hard and you are incredibly helpful at every event that

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Speaker 2: happens around the Northern Territory. But particularly one like this where,

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Speaker 2: like you said, you know the reality is that there

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Speaker 2: will always be quite a few injuries, So hats off

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Speaker 2: to the work that you guys do, really appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time this morning. Andrew.

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Speaker 2: That is Saint John Ambulance Regional Manager Northern Andrew Everingham.

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Speaker 2: There