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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now. Saint John Ambulance

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Speaker 1: Operations Manager Craig Garaway. Good morning, Craig, Morning Katy, How

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Speaker 1: are you not too bad? Craig. There is a lot

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Speaker 1: happening around the place, I mean, all eyes on the

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Speaker 1: Barkley region and Tenant Creeker today with this massive fire.

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Speaker 1: Has there had to be much of a response from

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Speaker 1: Saint John's Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, we've been involved in response, Cody since it all started,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with you and the center Crek guys,

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Speaker 2: I've been doing a lot of work in the background

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Speaker 2: and I saw Defense sending graters down there today, which

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Speaker 2: is great, and I think they've got support crews coming

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Speaker 2: from South Australia, so yep. Look we've got plenty of

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Speaker 2: support there at the moment. It's a bit of a

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Speaker 2: white weight and watch a lot of work going in

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Speaker 2: the background to ensure that, you know, everyone's ready for

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Speaker 2: when it gets there.

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Speaker 1: And Craig, unfortunately, you know, it's not the only thing

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Speaker 1: that Saint John's a dealing with a number of incidents

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Speaker 1: over the course of the weekend. We might start with

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Speaker 1: this situation on Saturday where a forty year old man

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Speaker 1: was writing a quad bike when he was caught in

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Speaker 1: a rock side in Boro Lula.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, Katie, you're right. There was a hell of

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Speaker 2: a lot right across the territory, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: this stuff happened in really remote locations which makes it

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Speaker 2: really difficult, this one being a classic example of that,

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Speaker 2: out of boril Lula on quite a remote station there,

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Speaker 2: that forty year old riding his quad bite and somehow,

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how, but there has been a rock

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Speaker 2: slide which has impacted on him and his quad and

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Speaker 2: caused quite an nasty laceration to his leg. I'm understanding,

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Speaker 2: quite a lot of blood loss. We obviously worked with

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Speaker 2: the Boro Lula Health Clinic and CareFlight and between the

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Speaker 2: three agencies were able to get a response out there,

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Speaker 2: and thanks to obviously the clinic and CareFlight who were

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Speaker 2: able to give the man on that site appropriate first

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Speaker 2: aid and getting back to Dala.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he suffered a large cut to his leg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand he is quite a nasty laceration to

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Speaker 2: his lead and which was obviously uncontrolled bleeding, which obviously

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Speaker 2: and being so remote in the middle of nowhere made

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Speaker 2: it more complicated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty frightening stuff. The poor bugger. Now. Then on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: one point thirty in the afternoon in Gray, a forty

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Speaker 1: one year old man on a scooter hit by a car.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I understanding he's hit the windscreen and caused

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Speaker 2: a number of injuries to himself as you could imagine,

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Speaker 2: and required parently transford him into the roll Downe hospital.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how all that's occurred was in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the day, but anyway, he's obviously making our

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Speaker 2: recovery in the hospital.

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Speaker 1: And then on still on Saturday, about seven pm, this

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Speaker 1: time around ten kilometers south of Adelaide River, a severe

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Speaker 1: motor accident occurred just outside of Adelaide River, which which

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Speaker 1: we are aware of. Talk us through what had gone

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Speaker 1: on here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was on door at row out there and

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Speaker 2: about ten k's out. Our initial report was vehicle had

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Speaker 2: rolled over with up to eleven patients on It was

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Speaker 2: our understanding. Obviously, the Adelaide River Health Clinic deployed straight away,

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Speaker 2: We worked with CareFlight and we also sent resources in

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Speaker 2: that direction and the end result was six people involved.

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Speaker 2: Three of those were treated for spinal injuries, three with

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Speaker 2: some other mind injuries. There was a baby involved in

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Speaker 2: that crash, but thankfully no injuries, but potentially could have

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Speaker 2: been so much worse. And yeah, well we were very

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Speaker 2: lucky with that one, I think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank goodness that that baby is okay. In Central

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Speaker 1: Australia as well, quite a bit that you guys had

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Speaker 1: to attend Saturday two am. Nothing good happens that early

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Speaker 1: in the morning. But a person hit by a car

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Speaker 1: and had to be taken to hospital.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was outside a tavern there and in Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs and my understanding of the currency went over the person.

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Speaker 2: So of course quite significant injuries too, this person, which

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Speaker 2: required obviously some intensive treatment from our paramedics and then

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Speaker 2: on the hospital staff. And I believe we took two

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Speaker 2: other people from that incident. May may have been in

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Speaker 2: relation to a fight or something, but I'm not don't

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Speaker 2: have all that information. So we did take two other

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Speaker 2: people as a result of that incident.

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness, may that sounds horrendous?

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was, so it looked just been horrible on

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Speaker 2: the road this weekend, Katie. We had six other crashes

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Speaker 2: I think I mentioned earlier to you around the Darwen Era.

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Speaker 2: We had that one out on the bunk Seen Highway

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Speaker 2: where unfortunately two people passed away as a result of

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Speaker 2: that crash and one other person seriously injured. But you know,

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Speaker 2: a game very remote locations.

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Speaker 1: And then even on Saturday in Braitling, a vehicle crashed

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Speaker 1: into the front yard of a house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it did. And my understanding is that I think

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Speaker 2: the yard was a bit lower than the road and

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Speaker 2: it sort of careered off into that yard. So thankfully

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Speaker 2: no one in the front yard. One person take the

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Speaker 2: hospital's resolve that I think it was more related to

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Speaker 2: a medical incident going on than so much from the

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Speaker 2: crash that so hopefully that person's making it for recovery

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Speaker 2: in El Springs Hospital.

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Speaker 1: Well, Craig Garaway, we know that Saint John's Saint John's

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Speaker 1: Cruise are always incredibly busy, but by the sounds of

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Speaker 1: the weekend busy right across the Northern Territory. And also

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Speaker 1: you know with the support being provided and the backgrounding

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Speaker 1: and logistics being provided with those fires. So a big

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Speaker 1: thank you to all of your frontline workers. Well everybody,

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Speaker 1: it's Sin John's there working incredibly hard.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie. I'm sure they'll be busy.

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Speaker 1: I reckon they're going to be mate. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your time and we'll probably end up chatting with

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Speaker 1: you again. We'll see how things are progressing, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: may even chat to you again this week. Thank you, Craig,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks mate,