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Speaker 1: Craig Garaway, the manager of emergency Communications Center for Saint John's.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Craig.

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Speaker 2: How are you going, Katie?

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Speaker 1: Not too bad, mate, you sound like you're busy.

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Speaker 2: Come out of the way. I wanted to come out anyway.

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Speaker 1: I got the impression from one word there, Craig, that

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Speaker 1: you've been bloody busy mate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we all have. But yeah, has been

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Speaker 2: a busy weekend, yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, plenty of incidents. Well, nine motor vehicle crashes over

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Speaker 1: the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, unfortunately it seems to be the average at

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Speaker 2: the moment. You know, I'd hope for none or one

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Speaker 2: or two, but you know, you're always planning on none happening.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, look we're averaging about nine ten a weekend

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Speaker 2: at the moment, and obviously you know that impact on

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Speaker 2: our hospital system with the amount of patients were taken

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Speaker 2: to the hospital. So yeah, look, unfortunately, we need to

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Speaker 2: slow down and take a bit more care on the

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Speaker 2: road now.

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Speaker 1: I know. On Saturday at two am Campbell Road in

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Speaker 1: Halts there was a vehicle that crashed into a power

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Speaker 1: causing power lines to come down. Two occupants in that

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Speaker 1: car actually had to be transported to hospital.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, this is this car rolled, I believe, and

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Speaker 2: then hit the power pole and has taken the power

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Speaker 2: line down and obviously makes it very complex, dangerous for

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Speaker 2: all the responding first responders and paramedes via an ambulance.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look lucky there that no further damage was done,

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Speaker 2: but two people from that were taken to hospital with

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Speaker 2: a number of injuries not too serious, but it could

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Speaker 2: have been a lot worse when you think about everything

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Speaker 2: that's gone on at that event.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet now. Then on Sunday, bag att Roade

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Speaker 1: Blood Miller a two vehicle crash. All occupants were able

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Speaker 1: to get out of those cars safely and didn't require

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Speaker 1: medical attention thankfully. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, this happened on Baker Road, as I said, and

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Speaker 2: you're not really sure what happened there, but a bit

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Speaker 2: going on that incident, I think Camper's a bit trade

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Speaker 2: and obviously when our ParaMed and police five got there,

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Speaker 2: everyone was fine and luckily we didn't need to take

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Speaker 2: anyone hospital. So yeah, we're very lucky on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there was also an e scooter accident

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Speaker 1: in Darwin City. A twenty four year old female with

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Speaker 1: a broken.

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Speaker 2: Leg Yeah, look, this happened last night, late last night,

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Speaker 2: and quite an obvious fracture to the leak, so quite

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Speaker 2: a nasty injury and she needed to be taken to hospital.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what's gone on. This happened late

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Speaker 2: last night when I've talked to the paramedy cruise, but yeah, look,

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Speaker 2: you know I just put that warning out there. You know,

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Speaker 2: the scooters I think are fantastic. I take my family

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Speaker 2: in there occasionally on a Friday night to have a

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Speaker 2: look around town. But you do need to use them responsibly,

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Speaker 2: and you know, make sure you use them where you're

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Speaker 2: meant to be using them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is that the problem? I mean, you know, not

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Speaker 1: just talking about this instance, but have we got a

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Speaker 1: situation where people maybe have had a few drinks or

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Speaker 1: whatever and then they decided to get on a scooter

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Speaker 1: and maybe don't use them as sensibly as what they

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Speaker 1: ordinarily would.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think that's pretty clear. You know, you

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Speaker 2: listen to people talking around town, and it's people not

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Speaker 2: using them properly, writing them up and down the roads

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Speaker 2: they shouldn't be up and down the roads. And obviously

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Speaker 2: maybe sometimes we get on them when we shouldn't get

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Speaker 2: on them, kdie and you've explained why it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look home, I would always are on the

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Speaker 1: side of caution. I'm not the best on those types

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Speaker 1: of things as it is. Yes, you don't want somebody

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Speaker 1: unco like me jumping on an e scooter after I've

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Speaker 1: had a couple of wines. That would be disastrous.

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Speaker 2: No, you don't. And they're not meant to be used

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Speaker 2: in those scenarios. And you know, I think they're a

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Speaker 2: great thing to day one and they allow you to

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Speaker 2: ride around, have a good look at our beautiful city

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Speaker 2: and go and have dinner somewhere and move from place

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Speaker 2: to place. And I see a lot of people during

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Speaker 2: the day using them for work purposes, so I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's late at night we seem to have

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Speaker 2: the main problems and obviously there are other factors in

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Speaker 2: play when those things happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Craig, I know that last week Saint John

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Speaker 1: held their Anty Excellence Awards. Really recognize those paramedics, volunteers

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Speaker 1: and corporate stuff for the wonderful work that they do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, fantastic night on Wednesday night. Thank you to

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Speaker 2: the NT government for allowing us to hold out at

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Speaker 2: to Parliament House and the Minister and all the sponsors

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Speaker 2: that were involved. But it was a great night for

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Speaker 2: us to be able to recognize our paramedics and the

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Speaker 2: work they do, along with the volunteers and all the

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Speaker 2: people in the background, our emergency medical dispatches that take

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Speaker 2: to locals and our support staff. It was just a

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Speaker 2: great night to be able to honor them and say

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Speaker 2: thank you, a small thank you for the big job

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Speaker 2: they do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a wonderful job. Indeed, always wonderful to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Craig Garraway, Thanks so much for your time today.

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Speaker 2: You too, Katie, and have a great week you too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That is Craig Garaway there from Saint John

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Speaker 1: Ambulance