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From the Highlands of Scotland, to the coast of Cornwall, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
the Great British countryside is spectacular. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:09 | |
But we work and play in it at our peril. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
And when things go wrong, | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
the emergency services race to the rescue... | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
This chap is having a heart attack and we need to get him in quickly. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
You're under arrest for failing to stop for police. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
..going hundreds of miles against the clock, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
battling the elements and braving the weather. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
Lower the winch. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:39 | |
From fields and forests to cliffs and country roads, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:45 | |
we'll be right at the heart of the action | 0:00:45 | 0:00:49 | |
with police fighting crime... | 0:00:49 | 0:00:51 | |
I've got suspicions that there might be cannabis being used. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:54 | |
..paramedics saving lives... | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
..and wardens safeguarding our lakes. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Come out of the way. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
We're there as the emergency services pull together | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
to pick up, patch up and protect the public. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
This is Countryside 999. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
Coming up - coppers in County Durham face a difficult arrest. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
-Arrested for what?! -Stay still. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
SUSPECT ROARS | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
On the Isle of Man, it's a tough break for a brave mum... | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
-The hips are fine. -Hips are. Yeah, that's OK. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
-Argh, I can't move. -No, it's OK. -Don't worry, don't worry. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
..and HMS Gannet makes a dramatic cliff rescue on the Fife Coast. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
County Durham in the North East of England. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
862 square miles of rolling fields... | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
..wide-open moorland and ancient communities. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
This diverse rural area is policed by Durham Constabulary. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:37 | |
Their beat is vast and largely peaceful. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
But crime can happen in the most unexpected places. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
So they need to be ready for anything. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
PC Colin Brown is based at Consett Police Station. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
I've been a police officer for a total of...12 years. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
'Most people join the job to help people, to make a difference.' | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
And also to catch the baddies, so to speak. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
A call's come in from the village of Shotley Bridge, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
a mile and a half from the station in Consett. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
Now Colin's on a manhunt. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
We've had a report of a burglary at a... | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
a sandwich shop, which is just the other side of this field, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
in the top right-hand corner with the male. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
He's, erm...made off across this field. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
A member of the public's reported a burglar fleeing the scene. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
All available squad cars are scrambled to find the suspect. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
Even the chopper's out. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
Police helicopter's overhead doing a search of the open areas | 0:04:15 | 0:04:20 | |
and gardens, and anyone looking like they're hiding. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
There's the dog man. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:26 | |
We've got the police dog out from the last sighting of this male, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
trying to follow a track of where this suspect has gone to. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
The officers meet at the scene of the burglary... | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
..a local shop that had closed for the day. | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
Victim, shopkeeper Caroline, arrived to find chaos. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
Me son rang and said, | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
"Mam, somebody's been to the house to say the shop's been broke into," | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
and then I jumped in the van to come down here. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
I've been here in this shop 14 years, it's been a lot longer | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
than that, and I've never, ever had anything like this before. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:15 | |
Didn't think we would ever have anything like this. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
Martin Willis is the sergeant in charge. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
Colin, you're round the back. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:28 | |
He's just received a tip-off. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
They leg it to a nearby house... | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
..where they've been told the suspects are hiding out. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
PC Colin Smith joins PC Colin Brown. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
'At that point, the adrenaline's going a bit and you're going into | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
'the unknown. You don't know if they're going to be there, | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
'you don't know if they're going to kick up a fuss or come compliantly. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
'It's a moment of tension.' | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
Officers are at the front of the house and here at the back. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
The place is surrounded. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:19 | |
'We always try and...what we call front-and-back an address to try' | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
and stop anyone from making off if we knock on the front door. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
There's always a chance that they | 0:06:31 | 0:06:32 | |
could run out the back door and away. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
With everyone in place, officers enter the front of the house. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
'We've knocked on the door and we've found our two suspects' | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
in the address, so right now they've both been arrested. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
We're going to conduct a house search and see | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
if we can find any of the stolen property. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
Now the arrests are in progress, | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
the lads proceed to the front of the property. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
PC Colin Smith takes a short-cut | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
while the others walk round the block. | 0:07:04 | 0:07:06 | |
This is an excellent example of where the community come out | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
and help us out. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:11 | |
A lot of people have come and told us, given us names, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
telling us what they've seen because, you know, they're concerned | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
about the people in the community, which is brilliant. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
But while they're on their way, news comes in. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:26 | |
'We could hear, on the radio, a few brief transmissions of a | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
'disturbance inside, | 0:07:35 | 0:07:37 | |
'but couldn't get a clear update from the officers.' | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
The arrests have turned violent. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
SUSPECT SHOUTS AND SWEARS | 0:07:44 | 0:07:46 | |
From a manhunt... | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
..to the Isle of Man. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:00 | |
With a dramatic coastline, sandy beaches | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
and welcoming Manx people... | 0:08:07 | 0:08:08 | |
..it's no wonder nearly 300,000 visitors come to the | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
33-mile-long island every year, | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
bringing more than £100 million into the local economy. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
But all these holiday-makers put pressure | 0:08:26 | 0:08:29 | |
on the island's emergency services. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
The Isle of Man Ambulance Service has three stations | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
and a team of 42 ready to blue-light to any crisis. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:42 | |
Technician Lisa Montgomery and Paramedic Kevin Airy | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
have worked together for seven years. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
Just doing vehicle checks at the moment, start of the shift, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
so, erm, just doing the drug check, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
making sure we've got everything here, | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
ready to go for that first job. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
The first emergency call of the day comes in. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
OVER RADIO: | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
Just got a job onto Douglas Promenade, | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
believe there's a lady, she's had a fall | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
on the seaside off the promenade and sustained an arm injury. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
So we'll just pop down and assess what injuries she's had. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
She is fully conscious and sat on a bench, waiting for us. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
Trips and falls are the number one cause of 999 calls | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
on the island, at 1,500 a year. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
From their current location in Douglas, | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
the crew speed to the seafront. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
They're looking out for a patient on the two-mile promenade. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
We're not quite sure where it is along here. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
We'll just keep an eye out, see if we can pick her up. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
Problem is, there's people sitting on all these benches | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
along the promenade here. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
-This isn't... -Is that...? -I don't know. -Is that her? | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
Locating the patient isn't their only challenge. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
It's pretty busy on the promenade itself here. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
We've got the horse trams, which are running up and down, as well, | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
which can hold the traffic up a little bit. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
Is that them over there? Yes, here we are. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
OK, we've got them now, just arriving at the scene. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
Alpha 116 on scene. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:03 | |
Hello, my love. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:11 | |
-And what's your name? -My name's Jenny. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
Jenny, I'm Kevin. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
71-year-old Jenny is on holiday with her husband, Peter. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
Jenny, what's happened this morning? | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
I was walking along and I tripped. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
I felt myself going, and I did some running steps, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
but I couldn't stop myself and I fell on my arm. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
-So, you've fallen down, on this.... -On, just... | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
-On this concrete here. -Just a little bit along there. -Right, OK. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
And I... My eyes went all misty, I couldn't see too good. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
-Afterwards? -But that's cleared. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
-That was after the fall, your eyes went misty? -That was after the fall. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
I felt sick, but I wasn't sick. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:46 | |
It's made me feel I want to go to the toilet, but that's probably shock. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
-You're holding this arm here. -It's hurting, it's hurting there. -Right | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
You fell on it, didn't you? | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
Jenny and Peter are only one day into their trip. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
What I need to do, | 0:12:00 | 0:12:01 | |
I just want to check your collar bone first, the way you're holding. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
-Can I just check? -Yes. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:05 | |
-Is that all OK there? -Yes. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:08 | |
-Feels OK? -Yes. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
And you can feel me touching down here? | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
Yes, I can. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:13 | |
-Can you feel me touching here? -I can feel you there. -OK, that's good. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
I think what we need to do is... | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
I wouldn't be surprised if you've got a fracture of the arm, there. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
Yes, it wouldn't surprise me. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
If you could support your arm, just till we get you in the ambulance, | 0:12:25 | 0:12:28 | |
we'll get you on the trolley, we'll take this top bit of clothing off | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
and just see if we can see the injury site, and just see if we can pinpoint what's going on. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
Kevin needs to examine the arm more thoroughly. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
I can see there's a fracture of the arm there, | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
I can feel the fracture, just the movement there. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
So, we'll just pop this triangular bandage on, just to support that. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:01 | |
It looks like her arm is broken and, if it's broken, it's going to hurt. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:08 | |
-Jenny, what's that pain like at the moment? -It's not bad, not bad. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
-We can give you something for the pain. -I just feel a bit woozy. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
No, I don't need anything for the pain. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
Are you sure? Right, OK. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
Just swing your legs up there, my love. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
'She's sustained what looks to be a fracture just above the left elbow | 0:13:23 | 0:13:28 | |
'to the humorous. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:29 | |
'She refused any pain relief, she's quite happy with it.' | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
It's a ten-minute journey to Noble's Hospital, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
just outside Douglas. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
Not a great start to her holiday, | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
but at least she's being well looked-after. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
The passers-by were very good. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
They all stopped to see if they could help. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
All wanted to help | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
They got me to the seat where I sat and recovered a bit, | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
and then my husband went back to the hotel | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
and they came across and called the ambulance, and here I am. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
Always nice to meet new people and these people are on their holidays, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
it's a shame it happened to them, | 0:14:13 | 0:14:15 | |
they're over here for a little break but, you know, a little "break". | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
Not a break to the arm! | 0:14:19 | 0:14:20 | |
With Jenny in safe hands, Kevin and Lisa are back on duty. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
And soon, there's another 999 call. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Oh, no. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
In County Durham..... | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
Police officers are rushing to a violent scene at a house. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
They're trying to arrest suspects in a shop burglary. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
But they're resisting arrest. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:23 | |
-Get your -BLEEP -off me head! | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
Calm yourself down! | 0:15:26 | 0:15:27 | |
SUSPECT SHOUTS AGGRESSIVELY | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
The coppers need to restrain the suspects to take them into custody. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
SUSPECT GROANS | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
-Me wrist! -BLEEP. -Me wrist! | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
Stay still. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
SUSPECT SCREAMS | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
Just keep still, don't try and bite me. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:48 | |
It's not good to bite me, don't try and do that. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
-Will you get that -BLEEP -out my face? | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
Just wait, don't resist! | 0:15:54 | 0:15:55 | |
Stop resisting. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
I didn't kick off. I didn't kick off, I'm not... | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Ow, ow! | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
You're stood on me toe! | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
PC Colin Smith is in the thick of it. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
Clearly, people don't like getting arrested. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
They don't like having their liberty taken and they decided | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
to resist arrest and, therefore, the situation you've seen, | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
they decided to fight with us and abuse us and spit at us. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
One suspect is so aggressive, | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
handcuffs and leg restraints are the only option. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Come on, then. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
-I am not... Why the -BLEEP... | 0:16:36 | 0:16:37 | |
Just let us stand up, then! Let us stand up, then! | 0:16:37 | 0:16:41 | |
But the level of verbal aggro from this suspect is off the charts. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:45 | |
The language used by particularly one male was very offensive, | 0:16:45 | 0:16:52 | |
and very racially aggressive towards PC Smith. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:57 | |
Look how many bizzies it takes for yous! | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
'There's not much else that could have been said to insult him | 0:16:59 | 0:17:03 | |
'or wind him up.' | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
Up you get, come on. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
BLEEP. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
We've already pulled his trousers up. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
SUSPECT SPITS | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
Assault PC! | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
All right, get... | 0:17:13 | 0:17:14 | |
BLEEP. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
SUSPECT ROARS | 0:17:16 | 0:17:17 | |
Up you get, come on. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:18 | |
We're professionals, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:19 | |
and you can't let your emotions override your actions. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
You have to deal with these people in a professional manner, | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
in a professional time, | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
and make sure no-one gets hurt and they don't get hurt. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
-SUSPECT: -Under arrest for assault! | 0:17:30 | 0:17:31 | |
They're trying to get a rise out of us and we can't bite. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
Yes, I didn't like the situation, I didn't like the abuse, | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
it was the worst I've ever come across, but I wasn't going to let... | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
I wasn't going to fall to his level, I wasn't going to let him get me. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
It's been a difficult collar, and a bruising one. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
Whilst conveying one of the males to the van, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
he's decided to spit upon me, as you can see, | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
on my right sleeve, | 0:18:05 | 0:18:06 | |
which isn't a very pleasant thing to have done. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
The adrenaline goes, but we're all professionals. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
We've been in this situation many times before, | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
we just don't overreact to it and don't react to them, | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
cos what they want is to get a reaction out of us. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
My job is paid to protect you, the public, and that's what I have to do. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
And sometimes it's not very pleasant, it can get nasty, | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
you can get hurt - I've been cut, you know, blood everywhere. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
I've been spat at. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
It's just one of the natures of the job. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
With the suspects in custody, | 0:18:45 | 0:18:46 | |
the officers update burglary victim Caroline. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
They've told us they've arrested somebody | 0:18:50 | 0:18:52 | |
and took them off to be interviewed. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
I'm chuffed to bits with it all. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
How they've... How it's been handled. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
And Shotley Bridge's usually quiet streets can get back to normal. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
I'm very proud of them. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:08 | |
I've seen them face some horrendous abuse. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
These are our colleagues and these are the people that I entrust my life to on a daily basis, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
and here when I see them get hurt and injured, it upsets me. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
Yeah, I care for them, they're my family when I'm here, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
and I massively care about them, | 0:19:23 | 0:19:24 | |
so it is very difficult to see them come away injured. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
I dealt with him best I could, hopefully in a professional manner. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
He didn't get... I didn't get hurt, I went home to see my wife and kids. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
Going home de-stresses you. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:38 | |
The kids come up and ask if I caught any robbers today | 0:19:38 | 0:19:41 | |
and I said, "Yes, I have, son." | 0:19:41 | 0:19:42 | |
The Scottish mainland. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:01 | |
Much of it a vast and beautiful wilderness. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
But ringing that remote landscape is even wilder country. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
790 islands dotted around 6,000 miles of coastline. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
It's some of the most dramatic terrain in Britain, | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
but when there's a medical emergency, | 0:20:25 | 0:20:27 | |
getting to those islands can be a nightmare. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
But there's one team who are always up to the job - | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
the Royal Navy Search and Rescue Unit, HMS Gannet. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
This elite team fly from Prestwick on the country's west coast. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
20 feet, 15 feet... | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
On call 24/7, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
they clock up around 300 missions a year. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
-Is it just one casualty? -One casualty, yeah. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
Paramedic and winchman Taff Ashman | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
has been with Royal Navy Search and Rescue for ten years. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
The stuff that I really enjoy about working in search and rescue | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
is job satisfaction. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:23 | |
The fact that I'm making a genuine difference to people | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
and helping them. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
You OK? | 0:21:30 | 0:21:31 | |
And it's the variety of the work that we get, as well. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
It's something that could not ever been described as a | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
9-5 office-type job. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:39 | |
This is Rescue 177, how do you read? | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
Rescue 177, go. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:47 | |
Today, Taff's crewmate, Chris Flynn, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
the team's winch operator and observer, is taking a call. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
The 11-year-old boy has had a seizure, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
caused by an existing brain tumour. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
He needs emergency medical care - fast. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
From their base, the team are flying west to Bute, | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
an island in the Firth of Clyde. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
As the crow flies, it's nearly 30 miles. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:30 | |
This chopper can do it in under ten minutes. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
100 yards to run. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
Good line, 50 yards. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:49 | |
They're landing in the town of Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
The patient is brought to the helicopter by ambulance. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Young Mark was on holiday on the island with his aunt, Jacqueline, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
when he suffered a seizure. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:12 | |
But Mark's a brave lad. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
He's looking forward to his first trip on a helicopter. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
And there's one part of the flight he's particularly excited about. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
Taff and the ground paramedics carefully start Mark's transfer. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
Mark needs specialist paediatric care | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
at Glasgow's Royal Hospital For Children. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:16 | |
Part of the biggest critical care complex in Scotland. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
An ambulance using road and ferry would take two hours, | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
but Gannet gets him there in under 15 minutes. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
Roger running in. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:33 | |
You've got probably about 100 yards to run. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
The element of speed was what was really important today. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Three... | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
two... | 0:24:44 | 0:24:45 | |
one. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:46 | |
Tail on. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
We got Mark, today, to a hospital where he needed to be, | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
and, you know, hopefully things can progress. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
Helping kids like Mark can affect the crew. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Most of us at Gannet are parents. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
So, if you end up picking up children, | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
it brings it a lot nearer to home. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
When we did land in the hospital, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
he did lean up and say he wanted a high five | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
cos he'd just had a helicopter ride! | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
Taking vulnerable patients to specialist care | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
is a big part of this team's role. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
But another day, another shift. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
And a new crisis. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
On the Isle of Man, | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
technician Lisa Montgomery and paramedic Kevin Airie | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
are blue-lighting to a call-out. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
There's a lady fallen out of a wheelchair. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
She's conscious, she's alert, | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
but we're unaware of what injuries she's sustained in this at present. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
They're speeding from their current location near Kirk Michael | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
to Ramsey, in the north-east. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:46 | |
A local volunteer trained in first aid, and known as a first responder, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
is already with the casualty. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:55 | |
Do you know who it is? | 0:27:04 | 0:27:05 | |
Lisa and Kevin think they know the casualty. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
-It is her. -It is her, yeah. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
-Hi, Jay. -She's an amputee, she's fallen out of her wheelchair, | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
head over heels, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
-and she's very painful on her left knee where the amputee is. -OK. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
She thinks it could be maybe broken. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
It's a lot more swollen than normal. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:30 | |
She was going to take her strapping off, but I told her to leave it on. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
-Hello. I forget your name, what is your name? -Zara. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
Zara, that's right. So what's happened here, you've gone off the pavement have, you? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:40 | |
I didn't come off the pavement. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
I lost control of the casters on the front of the wheelchair, | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
and I came forward, and I was using my leg to break, | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
to slow my speed down, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
and then I just went forward. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
So, you've come forward out of the chair? | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
Yeah, and I landed... All my weight landed on the knee. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
Right, OK. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
16 months ago, she had a below-knee amputation. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
She'd been at the hospital for an appointment | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
and was going back down the hill. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
The wheelchair just seemed to gain speed and get out of control, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
and she was tipped out of the front of it and she landed on the stump. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
What might be best, if we assist you into your chair | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
and put our ramp down on here, wheel you onto the ambulance, | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
once you're on there, we can give you some.... | 0:28:26 | 0:28:28 | |
Zara's lower leg was recently amputated due to a blocked vein. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:32 | |
Now there might be a fracture to her femur, or thigh bone. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
ZARA SCREAMS | 0:28:36 | 0:28:37 | |
-That's OK. -Oh, I can't move. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
It's OK, don't worry. Don't worry, don't worry. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
Do you want something for the pain first before we move you? | 0:28:41 | 0:28:44 | |
-Yes, please! -You do? Right, OK. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:46 | |
Once we arrived on scene, it became apparent Zara was in a lot of pain. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:50 | |
So, initially, yeah, it was all pain management we gave her, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:53 | |
an oral morphine solution. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:55 | |
For single mum Zara, this new injury is a big blow. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:00 | |
Where are the boys? | 0:29:01 | 0:29:02 | |
-My youngest one has started in...Ramsey Grammar. -OK. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:07 | |
-Starting at the Grammar? -He is, yeah. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
Oh, that's scary, isn't it? | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
I'm supposed to be getting their uniforms sorted out tonight. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
Let me just check your pulse there. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
Kevin will wait for the morphine to kick in | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
before helping Zara into the ambulance. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
Right. OK, just open wide, let's have a little... | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
ZARA SCREAMS | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
Oh, oh, oh! | 0:29:31 | 0:29:32 | |
-Yowzer, yowzer. Sorry! -It's OK. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
Now, what I want to do is to spin round and sit on there, if you can. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
Yep, OK. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:39 | |
-You OK there, Jay? -Yeah, fine. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:41 | |
-Take a hop. -Yeah, fine this side. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
Go a bit more, Lise, a bit higher. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:46 | |
OK, if I put my arm down. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
I've got you this side, as well, don't worry. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
Easy done. | 0:29:58 | 0:29:59 | |
So, the boys doing all right? Are they behaving themselves? | 0:30:04 | 0:30:07 | |
As much as little teenagers can get away with. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:11 | |
Yeah! No, they're doing really good. | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
I've been independent for so long, | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
even straight from hospital, I was up doing things myself. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:25 | |
Yeah, even looking after the boys, you know, I'm a single parent. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:33 | |
You know, you've just got to get on with it. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:36 | |
You really do. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
Yeah, tough going. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:39 | |
It is. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:42 | |
But, to be honest, I don't... | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
It doesn't feel like I know any different now. | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
It's 15 miles to Nobel's Hospital. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:52 | |
On bumpy country roads, it's a difficult journey. | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
Some Entonox, or gas and air, eases Zara's pain. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:59 | |
Short-acting painkiller. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:00 | |
Once she stops taking it, you know, the effects of the drug | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
will wear off and the pain will return. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
How are you feeling, Zara? | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
-I'm OK. -A bit better with that? -A little bit better. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
A 25-minute journey later, | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
Zara's transferred to the hospital nurses. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:27 | |
Right, we'll do a ready, steady, slide, and we'll go on "slide", OK? | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
Ready, steady, slide. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Here they'll be able to treat her leg. | 0:31:38 | 0:31:40 | |
We'll get this Entonox on you. Is it Zara, did you say? | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
Zara, yeah. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
I'm relieved that I'm here. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:49 | |
If I'd gone home, with the pain, | 0:31:50 | 0:31:53 | |
I think I would have just ended up back here anyway, so, yeah, I'm OK. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:58 | |
I'm in good hands. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
She'll undergo further assessment | 0:32:00 | 0:32:02 | |
and then X-rays to see what's happened to the knee. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:05 | |
But, fingers crossed, she'll be OK and get back home shortly. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:08 | |
Back on the mainland... | 0:32:22 | 0:32:23 | |
The crew of Royal Navy Search and Rescue Unit HMS Gannet | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
are on their way to an emergency call. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
A 17-year-old has collapsed on an inaccessible cliff. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
Flying from their west of Scotland base, | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
the crew are heading 82 miles north-east, | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
to a remote location near the town of Elie. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
The Scottish east coast is stunning. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
But these dramatic cliffs and crags are difficult terrain | 0:32:57 | 0:33:01 | |
when trying to reach a casualty. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
Winchman and paramedic Taff Ashman is monitoring the updates. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:10 | |
The casualty has diabetes and has lost consciousness. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
His condition could be serious. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:46 | |
'We were told that this lad had potentially gone hypoglycaemic. | 0:33:46 | 0:33:50 | |
'When someone's hypoglycaemic it means the level of sugar in their | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
'blood is low, so they don't have the sort of energy stores, | 0:33:53 | 0:33:56 | |
'if you like, to keep going.' | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
And that was the worrying thing, for me, was if this lad had crashed so quickly, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
what had led to it and was there an underlying problem | 0:34:02 | 0:34:07 | |
that had led to the loss of consciousness? | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
In extreme cases, hypoglycaemia can lead to a diabetic coma. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:16 | |
And there's another problem. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:19 | |
It's 8:00pm. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
The light is fading fast. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:22 | |
They spot lifeguards from the RNLI below. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
They arrived by boat | 0:34:55 | 0:34:56 | |
and helped the casualty down from the steep cliffs to the beach. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:59 | |
Unable to land on the rocky beach, | 0:35:11 | 0:35:13 | |
paramedic Taff will be winched down. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
To keep the aircraft clear of the cliffs, | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
they need to lower Taff on a long winch line. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:37 | |
Eight more feet. Eight more feet. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:40 | |
'It was quite a high winch. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
'The big issue for us really was by trying to get the aircraft up | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
'to a height where, if it has a problem and loses an engine, | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
'it can dive away and actually gain some forward speed | 0:35:50 | 0:35:54 | |
'and be able to fly the aircraft away, | 0:35:54 | 0:35:56 | |
'rather than it crash into the cliffs.' | 0:35:56 | 0:35:59 | |
Now, they manoeuvre the chopper towards the cliffs | 0:36:00 | 0:36:03 | |
with Taff suspended below. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:04 | |
But it's a tricky landing. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:20 | |
Just with the little bit of a swing, | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
we caught the wrong bit of the beach and unfortunately hanging upside | 0:36:28 | 0:36:32 | |
down for a couple of seconds, before I managed to get off the winch hook. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:35 | |
Very quick sort of like, that's not gone great, I'm all right, | 0:36:37 | 0:36:42 | |
so I managed to get clear of the winch hook | 0:36:42 | 0:36:45 | |
and grab my bag and off we went. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:47 | |
Now on the ground, Taff is briefed by the RNLI. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
A few of the lifeboat guys had actually got to Cameron | 0:37:00 | 0:37:04 | |
and were giving him some first aid. | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
They gave him a sugary drink and something to eat. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:09 | |
Minutes ago, the casualty, Cameron, was unconscious | 0:37:11 | 0:37:14 | |
on a treacherous cliff ledge. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:16 | |
After a severe blackout, he needs to get to hospital. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
But the only way to the chopper is by winch. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
With Taff and Cameron safely in the aircraft, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:29 | |
they speed to Accident and Emergency care | 0:38:29 | 0:38:32 | |
at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. | 0:38:32 | 0:38:34 | |
At hospital, Cameron's strong enough to walk into A&E. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
For the Gannet team, it's been another successful rescue. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
Four weeks later, Cameron's back home and spending time | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
with his uncle Colin, who was walking with him when he collapsed. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
Cameron got the all-clear from hospital within a few hours, | 0:39:30 | 0:39:34 | |
but it turns out this lad had an incredibly lucky escape. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:38 | |
I didn't realise I was having a hypo. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
I thought I was just tired. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:43 | |
I felt my legs going a bit jelly, | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
and I felt... I kept feeling like I was going to slip, | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
even though it wasn't really wet, and I had boots on. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
But I just felt like my body was getting weaker and weaker and then, | 0:39:53 | 0:39:58 | |
I think, I just, you know... | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
I was just out of it, I just stopped altogether. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
For his uncle, it was a terrifying moment. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
They were attempting a treacherous cliff route, | 0:40:09 | 0:40:11 | |
called the Elie Chain Walk. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:13 | |
We were both sat down, | 0:40:16 | 0:40:17 | |
and at that point he started to slide up against a rock. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:20 | |
He was practically unconscious at this point. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
Then I started to realise, right, this is diabetes, | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
this is a hypo, it has to be a hypo, this is going to turn serious. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
It was a beautiful day, turning into almost a nightmare. | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
The duo were perched on a tiny cliff ledge, | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
40 feet above the rocky shore. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:41 | |
So, I grabbed a hold of him, and I've got him between my legs, | 0:40:41 | 0:40:44 | |
I put my arms around him. | 0:40:44 | 0:40:45 | |
One slip, we could be dead. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:48 | |
And then, I started to think to myself, right, OK, | 0:40:48 | 0:40:52 | |
what do I need to do here? I need to make some phone calls, I need help. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:55 | |
They says to me, "Look, we're going to send air support, | 0:40:58 | 0:41:01 | |
"and the coastguard will arrive, as well." | 0:41:01 | 0:41:03 | |
So, from that point onwards, I was glad. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
Actually, I thought, "Well, the right people are on their way." | 0:41:06 | 0:41:10 | |
Cameron began to regain consciousness while they waited for help. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:14 | |
I thought it was a dream. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
I thought I just went to sleep | 0:41:16 | 0:41:18 | |
and when I woke back up I'd be in my room or something, | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
but I woke up on this rock with my uncle wrapped around me. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:26 | |
So, I was like, "What's going on?" | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
The RNLI helped him and Colin off the cliff, | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
but it's the chopper Cameron remembers. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
I was told that the helicopter was coming, I was thinking, "Aw, jeez!" | 0:41:36 | 0:41:39 | |
We hear the rotors. You could hear them from miles away. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:43 | |
The downforce from the helicopter was crazy. | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
You could barely breathe, it was on top of you. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
That was the first time I've ever been in a helicopter, | 0:41:49 | 0:41:53 | |
so I thought it was a pretty cool experience. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:56 | |
I thought it was cool when they were flying, | 0:41:56 | 0:41:58 | |
and had the door open for a while. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:01 | |
I thought that was pretty James Bond! | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
Take away the hypo and everything, that was fun. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:07 | |
It's been all go for the Emergency Services across the British Isles. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
In County Durham, | 0:42:21 | 0:42:22 | |
one of the suspected burglars the coppers nabbed | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
pleaded guilty to burglary, assaulting an officer, | 0:42:25 | 0:42:27 | |
and a racially aggravated public order offence. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:30 | |
He was sentenced to six weeks in prison. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
The other suspects were released without charge. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
In Glasgow, | 0:42:39 | 0:42:40 | |
HMS Gannet got Mark to hospital before he had a second seizure. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
This second seizure left him unconscious for 18 hours, | 0:42:44 | 0:42:48 | |
but the hospital specialists were on hand to treat him. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
On the Isle of Man, | 0:42:53 | 0:42:54 | |
Jenny's broken arm was cast in plaster. | 0:42:54 | 0:42:56 | |
She had metal plates fitted when she got back home. | 0:42:56 | 0:42:59 | |
She missed her holiday, but her arm is healing well. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:02 | |
Zara had chipped the cartilage in her knee. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:06 | |
But X-rays revealed she had also fractured her femur. | 0:43:06 | 0:43:09 | |
But she's back home now and her plaster cast is due off soon. | 0:43:09 | 0:43:12 | |
And you thought it was quiet in the countryside! | 0:43:14 | 0:43:16 |