0:00:02 > 0:00:04They're the Brits who race to the rescue down under...
0:00:04 > 0:00:06- RADIO:- Multiple patients critical.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09..everyday heroes, saving lives...
0:00:09 > 0:00:1112 miles to run.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13..battling fires...
0:00:13 > 0:00:14It's too late!
0:00:14 > 0:00:16It can be extremely dangerous.
0:00:16 > 0:00:17..and fighting crime.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Put your arm down. Police! Open the door!
0:00:19 > 0:00:22From the big city to the outback.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Our policing district is bigger than the whole of the UK.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26From the bush...
0:00:26 > 0:00:31He's been crushed between one of those dingo diggers and a Ute.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32..to Bondi beach.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35'The search continues for a British tourist who hasn't been seen
0:00:35 > 0:00:37'since he went for a swim.'
0:00:37 > 0:00:40You never quite know what you're in for or what's going to happen.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42332, mate, on the head in.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Very high impact. He's really quite critically injured.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48Brits on blue lights under blue skies.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59Today down under, there's a major accident at the fairground.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02There are apparently three patients that fell out of the Ferris wheel.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06The British firefighters who risk their lives in the blazing bush.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09There's a little old lady in that house next door to this.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12We've just rescued two people in a house that's about to go over.
0:01:12 > 0:01:18And new recruit Dr Rebecca is scrambled to save tiny twins.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21They're quite young babies so things may go up and down.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25We just arrived and the baby was working a lot harder to breathe
0:01:25 > 0:01:26than we would've liked.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35It's the weekend in Australia's biggest city
0:01:35 > 0:01:38and there's a major rescue operation under way.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41- REPORTER:- Three teenage girls suffered various injuries including
0:01:41 > 0:01:44pelvic fractures after a Ferris wheel accident at Liverpool.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46They plunged up to five metres from their carriage
0:01:46 > 0:01:47at the YMCA fun park.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51British doctor Cliff Reid is one of Sydney's top trauma specialists
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and he's been scrambled to the scene of the accident.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57So the latest update from the inspector on scene are that three
0:01:57 > 0:01:59patients fell out the Ferris wheel.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02At least one of them has fractures.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Depending on at what point around the circle they were,
0:02:05 > 0:02:09it could be a fall from a relatively low height or a significant height.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13So injuries could range from minor to fatal.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16Fire and Rescue Service have determined that the scene is
0:02:16 > 0:02:19unsafe in terms of the stability or the security of the Ferris wheel
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and there are multiple casualties on scene
0:02:21 > 0:02:23so this may turn into a major incident.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25The mission is clearly evolving
0:02:25 > 0:02:28and the more information we can get at this stage the better.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30But we'll try and be mentally prepared for everything.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Dr Cliff's job is to assess the patients and decide
0:02:35 > 0:02:38whether to call in more emergency services.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41A senior ambulance officer is already there.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43My name's Cliff. I'm the doc and we've got Hugh there.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47- It's a fall of four metres from this Ferris wheel.- Four metres. OK.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50It's actually tipped about four metres to one side and it's ejected
0:02:50 > 0:02:51three girls approximately four
0:02:51 > 0:02:54metres down to the ground and landing on a gate.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57And there's two other patients that have been sighted.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59- ..minor injuries.- OK.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- Erm, both stable.- OK.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03All right.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Hugh, do you want to have a quick eyeball of the other two
0:03:05 > 0:03:07while I start here to make sure you're happy?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Family members are already at the scene.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12I don't know. I wasn't here but
0:03:12 > 0:03:14apparently out of that, the pink one there, which is
0:03:14 > 0:03:18about three metres. Apparently it just flipped over and they fell out.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21The girls are all friends, living locally.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30The medics are concentrating on a 14-year-old girl with
0:03:30 > 0:03:34a suspected fractured pelvis and arm.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Dr Cliff wants to check for internal bleeding.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41It's just five minutes since he arrived on scene.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44Now we're just using an ultrasound machine to look at your arm here.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47OK, I'm just going to give this...
0:03:47 > 0:03:48Now what I'm going to do is...
0:03:48 > 0:03:52This little amount gets squeezed up your nose in a mist.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55So when I say "now", just breathe in through your nose, OK?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01You will start to feel it now. Breathe in through your nose.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Two of the girls are already on their way to hospital.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09It's beginning to look like they were the lucky ones.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12We had three patients. One appears to have a fractured pelvis,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15humerus and some ribs on her left-hand side.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18The other young girl has a fractured humerus, maybe some ribs, and
0:04:18 > 0:04:23the other one has some flank pain, some leg pain, maybe a tib and fib.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26- REPORTER:- Police are investigating what caused a Ferris wheel
0:04:26 > 0:04:29accident at Liverpool that injured three teenaged girls.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33From our point of view, the structure looks sound.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36It will be inspected by work cover inspectors when
0:04:36 > 0:04:41they arrive later this afternoon and, um, we've instructed the
0:04:41 > 0:04:46operators to keep it turned off and have no-one else use it,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50not until it's inspected by the work cover operators.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01Dr Cliff's patient is being taken
0:05:01 > 0:05:03to the Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08Clearly a horrible traumatic day for her.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10But hopefully she's going to
0:05:10 > 0:05:13pull through from this and do very well.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16The worst-case scenario when you fall from that height is
0:05:16 > 0:05:18multiple injuries which are life-threatening, potentially,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21to the chest, the head, the pelvis and so on.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24So you can bleed to death, you can die from a lack of oxygen
0:05:24 > 0:05:28from chest injuries or you can die from a tremendous brain injury.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31It's confirmed that, despite initial fears,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34the girl hasn't broken her pelvis.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38She makes a good recovery and returns home a few days later.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42Experts can find no mechanical fault on the Ferris Wheel.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Every year, hundreds of British emergency workers
0:05:54 > 0:05:59fly into Australia to begin new lives down under.
0:05:59 > 0:06:0410,000 miles away in wintry Manchester, Dr Rebecca Barzeger
0:06:04 > 0:06:06is about to become one of them.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10She's a paediatrician, anxious to broaden her experience.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12I think that's the scariest thing.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Like, I'm used to having a consultant on the end of a phone,
0:06:15 > 0:06:17lots of nurses who are really skilled,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20all the equipment I need, and suddenly, for me,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22you're out there on your own,
0:06:22 > 0:06:26you've got no-one around you but a nurse and a pilot and a child.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I've been in Manchester for 11 years.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I've got a network of doctors that
0:06:31 > 0:06:33I know here really well that know how I work.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35I've got my family and my friends
0:06:35 > 0:06:38and I think I might even miss the rain a little bit, you know.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41But, yeah, I think I'll mainly miss my family and friends.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44It's a long, long way away. It's a big step.
0:06:48 > 0:06:53It's seven weeks later, and this is Dr Rebecca's new home,
0:06:53 > 0:06:57half a world away from the cloudy skies of Manchester.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01I don't even know how many minutes old.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03OK.
0:07:03 > 0:07:08Dr Rebecca's leaving Sydney on a 250-mile journey to the country
0:07:08 > 0:07:12town of Parkes, where newborn twins need her help.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15The team from the 9pm last night are already there.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19So we have to go and retrieve the second twin or whichever twin
0:07:19 > 0:07:22they're not taking - cos they can't take two at once -
0:07:22 > 0:07:24and make sure it's stable enough for transfer and have
0:07:24 > 0:07:28an initial assessment of it and bring it back to a unit where
0:07:28 > 0:07:31a baby of that gestation can be managed.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35So currently we're driving to the airport to get the plane to
0:07:35 > 0:07:39go there and then the ambulance will pick us up on the other side
0:07:39 > 0:07:40and drive us to the hospital.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47New South Wales operates a fleet of converted executive planes.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49They're the ambulances of the outback.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59This journey is so long it's like Dr Rebecca leaving her
0:07:59 > 0:08:04hospital in Manchester and setting out to treat a patient in Aberdeen.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08The team has all the kit to keep one of the babies alive long
0:08:08 > 0:08:11enough to reach intensive care.
0:08:15 > 0:08:20In the Parkes maternity unit, the twins are both in trouble,
0:08:20 > 0:08:23their tiny lungs struggling to cope.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25They're both going to the same place
0:08:25 > 0:08:29so we'll all end up in the same place at the end, OK?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Their parents, Amanda and Matt, are nearby.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36So if you've got questions in that time, just ask us
0:08:36 > 0:08:38or ask the other staff.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Don't feel like you're in the way, cos, you know...
0:08:41 > 0:08:43they're your babies.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46Soon there's an update from British intensive care nurse
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Steve Face, who's been trying to stabilise
0:08:49 > 0:08:53the condition of one of the twins since the early hours.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55At the moment, she's reasonably stable.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58But they're quite young babies,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02so we're going to have a few days where things may go up and down.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06But at the moment she's probably doing as well as we would hope.
0:09:07 > 0:09:12Steve's baby is the first to leave, cocooned in a mobile incubator.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18Next, Rebecca's baby is prepared for her flight.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20How are we doing with her tube?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- We're not overly confident with that line.- Fine.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26But I guess that you're going to be shoving a new one in there.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28- Yeah, it looks kind of flimsy, doesn't it?- Yeah.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31It's very difficult. I am just not convinced.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35- Now that's frothing.- Is it?
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- Yep.- So it's positional to here.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Premature babies need delicate care.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Not enough oxygen and they can suffer brain damage,
0:09:44 > 0:09:47too much and they can be left blind.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Rebecca has decided to anaesthetise her baby
0:09:52 > 0:09:54and take over her breathing.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57Yeah, a 240 and a 120.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Once the tube is in, there's an immediate improvement.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09We just arrived and the baby was working a lot harder to
0:10:09 > 0:10:12breathe than we would've liked, so we decided to put
0:10:12 > 0:10:15a tube down straightaway and she looks a bit more relieved
0:10:15 > 0:10:18now that that tube is in and we're breathing for her, essentially.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21So now we're just going to pop an extra drip in.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25She's a lovely colour and she is vigorous, active. I think
0:10:25 > 0:10:30she just wasn't quite ready to breathe for herself yet, so...
0:10:31 > 0:10:36But she's not out of the woods yet. There's a 200 mile flight ahead.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44- REPORTER:- We woke to the horrible news yesterday that we
0:10:44 > 0:10:47believed four had perished in the fires still going.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52It's the beginning of the Aussie summer,
0:10:52 > 0:10:54when the baking sun brings bushfire season
0:10:54 > 0:10:57to the forests of New South Wales.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03And when the flames arrive, former Royal Marine Tony Wood
0:11:03 > 0:11:05is in the front line.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08You've got smoke. You're on a fire so smoke is everywhere.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10These bushfires are huge.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12Now! Water on.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Australia spends millions fighting the fires from the skies,
0:11:15 > 0:11:19bombing the flames with a fleet of helicopters and planes.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21It can be extremely dangerous
0:11:21 > 0:11:24and when you're fighting the fires you can feel the heat.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27This is what Tony is fighting.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35We're going to use a hose over here. We're going to do both these houses.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36We're going to save both of them.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39In the tinder-dry trees of the Australian bush...
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Hey, hey, hey, hey! You cannot go out.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44You cannot go out now. It's too late.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46..no home is immune...
0:11:49 > 0:11:51..no road safe.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Close the door.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57This is the terrifying reality of fighting fires that can
0:11:57 > 0:12:00travel at 20mph.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Away from the cities, the men and women risking their lives
0:12:06 > 0:12:10are all volunteers from the Rural Fire Service.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12Think about what you're going to be doing.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15I'll be telling you what the incident is.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Normally, a crew leader will be telling you to get a, b, c,
0:12:17 > 0:12:19and d off the truck. I'm looking, really,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22or they'll be looking for you to do that yourselves.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23So think of all the basic stuff.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Simon Jones gave up commuting to London for a life down under
0:12:27 > 0:12:30and now he helps run his local brigade in a suburb of Sydney.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34He's out of the car. He's at the front.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38We get to do some stuff that I would never have expected to do in the UK.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41I needed things to do or something else to do on a weekend
0:12:41 > 0:12:43and found more than enough to do by
0:12:43 > 0:12:46exploring the Rural Fire Service, so...
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Get in low.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51A lot of the whole volunteer spirit in Australia
0:12:51 > 0:12:53comes from the fact that it's a harsh land, you know?
0:12:53 > 0:12:56And when you arrived here 200 years ago, I needed your help
0:12:56 > 0:12:59and you needed my help and I think that's
0:12:59 > 0:13:03really where this whole spirit of volunteering comes from
0:13:03 > 0:13:06is that, you know, we need each other's help to get by.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I mean, the Rural Fire Service has something like 72,000 members,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12and that's just in New South Wales.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Up here, guys! Quickly, quickly, quickly!
0:13:14 > 0:13:17- REPORTER:- Some of the worst that we've seen in this state.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19And that's right, the worst in 50 years.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21But nothing compares to what's happening down there.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25The sort of area that they're saying that's wiped out.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Some of the rural firefighters
0:13:27 > 0:13:31are trained to drop into bushfire zones from helicopters,
0:13:31 > 0:13:35and crewman Tony must find a way of getting them near the flames safely.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Fires are in the most inaccessible places.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41You cannot, cannot get to it to vehicles.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Hence we've got a large percentage of the helicopters
0:13:44 > 0:13:47are winch capable.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51Sometimes for these volunteers it's the first operational winch they do.
0:13:51 > 0:13:52You know, their eyes are like that
0:13:52 > 0:13:53when you're bringing them
0:13:53 > 0:13:56and they don't want to go to the door.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Hook them on, bring them there...
0:13:58 > 0:14:01I'll bring them there and we'll do three checks, I'll take them out.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03I'll put their equipment
0:14:03 > 0:14:06and they'll always have a day pack with them.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09They have the final thumbs up and then I winch them down.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13And the chopper is also equipped to help them fight the fire from above.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16See we've got the Bell 412.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19This is one of three helicopters being brought over from Canada
0:14:19 > 0:14:22this year to fight the summer season.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24We'll probably carry 12 people at a time.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27It's fitted both with the underfloor tank or indeed
0:14:27 > 0:14:29we can put a Bambi Bucket on it.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37The tank itself can contain up to 1,400 litres of water.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40You can see it's a fairly decent-sized tank.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43So that's a fair amount of water to drop on any fire.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47There's four different compartments under there.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50They can either open up and just drop the lot or
0:14:50 > 0:14:53they can open up one at a time and drop it
0:14:53 > 0:14:56so they can cover a larger distance across the ground.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01When we get over the water source that we're going to use, the pilot
0:15:01 > 0:15:06will hit the switch and he will drop this. This will just hang down.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Put it into the water, hover it into the water, this fills that up
0:15:10 > 0:15:13within 30 to 40 seconds, which is pretty cool. That's pretty fast.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20Fills it up, off we go and then we can drop it on it.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Our primary role is to protect lives and people's houses.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26That's what we're there for.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28There's a little old lady in that house next door, guys.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- Which one is it, that one?- I'll go straight back in for her.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35Two years ago, huge blazes that swept the Blue Mountains
0:15:35 > 0:15:38left many people homeless.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Hello, hello? We need you out now.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41I know, I know I'm getting...
0:15:41 > 0:15:43No, no, we need you now.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46This year, it's feared it could happen again.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48Henry 5. I'm just rescuing some
0:15:48 > 0:15:51gear from a house that's about to go over.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Today, Simon's out advising homeowners on how to
0:15:54 > 0:15:58protect their property against wildfire.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02Once you get out of metro areas like Sydney, the RFS is what you've got.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04There is no New South Wales Fire and Rescue.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07So the RFS fulfils those functions.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10This area will be especially vulnerable now summer is here.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Yeah, it's a lovely little spot for embers, you know,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14sort of popping in through here and...
0:16:14 > 0:16:18- But if you are here and you can damp it down, that's a...- Yeah.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21But again, having a hosepipe that runs all the way round.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23The number of houses that interface onto bushland
0:16:23 > 0:16:27means that we have a high probability that at some point,
0:16:27 > 0:16:30you know, those houses might be impacted by bushfire.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I suppose one similarity between Australians
0:16:32 > 0:16:34and British people is talking about the weather.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37So we spend a lot of time talking about the weather.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39But here whether can be fire weather.
0:16:39 > 0:16:43And when the forecast is for danger in the bush this summer, there'll
0:16:43 > 0:16:48be no shortage of Brits like Simon ready to take on the flames.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Fuelled by the booming mining industry
0:17:03 > 0:17:07and a huge influx of migrants from the UK and South Africa, Perth
0:17:07 > 0:17:11is one of the world's most expensive cities in which to live.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Most homes boast a pool,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16many have a view of the Indian Ocean,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19and today they're all under the watchful eyes of British
0:17:19 > 0:17:21police officers Colin and Kate.
0:17:23 > 0:17:27This is Quinns Rocks and it's one of our suburbs.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30So we do Mundaring and the Quinns Rocks.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33It's quite an affluent suburb.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Yeah, in areas.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38There's the newer part. You've got your mix of extremely
0:17:38 > 0:17:41old houses and brand-new, two-storey,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44million dollar plus houses.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48But behind the tidy gardens and tinted windows of these
0:17:48 > 0:17:52housing estates is a less attractive side to Aussie life.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Drug use is a growing problem and the British officers'
0:17:55 > 0:17:59instinct for lawbreakers has just sniffed out a couple of suspects.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01Hello.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02- Hi. How you doing?- Good, thank you.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04Can you guess why we've pulled you over?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06- Maybe the look of the car?- Nah.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10The driver of the car was stopped for a licence irregularity,
0:18:10 > 0:18:13but Colin's questioning soon sets him off on another track.
0:18:13 > 0:18:14I was just speaking to him,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16obviously, and I know that I'm going
0:18:16 > 0:18:18to search him and when I asked him if he has anything on him that
0:18:18 > 0:18:22he shouldn't have then he says that he thinks that he might do and
0:18:22 > 0:18:25there might be items in the vehicle that shouldn't be there as well.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Can I just get you to jump out for me? Just come over there.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Jump over here, all right? Do you consent to the search?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32- Yeah, yeah, no worries.- All right. Just to let you know,
0:18:32 > 0:18:35if you do withdraw your consent at any time, it is an offence to do so.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37You may be arrested and the consent
0:18:37 > 0:18:39- will be done against your will, all right?- OK.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41So have you anything on you that you shouldn't have?
0:18:43 > 0:18:45All right. If you want to just turn out your pocket for me.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Yeah. And that should be it, mate, yeah.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49That's about it? All right.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- So I'm just going to pop it over here.- Yeah.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53All right?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56The pipe is the sort used to smoke crystal meth - the drug that's
0:18:56 > 0:19:00becoming the narcotic of choice for users in Western Australia.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Put your arms up by your side.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07Kate's talking to his passenger. She insists she's innocent.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Before I go any further, I'm going to give you the caution.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish you do so.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Whatever you do say will be taken down in writing
0:19:17 > 0:19:19and may be given in evidence and used against you in court.
0:19:19 > 0:19:20Do you understand that?
0:19:20 > 0:19:25High-level crystal meth dealers have been sentenced to ten years in jail,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28but cases of low-level possession are so common
0:19:28 > 0:19:30this man won't even be arrested.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32I've just got your details here and the fact that I told you,
0:19:32 > 0:19:34you'd be summonsed for the offence, all right?
0:19:34 > 0:19:37The driver's going to end up in court.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40His driving licence has also expired,
0:19:40 > 0:19:43meaning he'll face a motoring charge.
0:19:43 > 0:19:44Do I have to push it home?
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- You don't have to push it but... - We'll...we'll follow you.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51They're going to let him drive home, but no further.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53- So we'll follow you back there. - Thank you.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54So you can get it home.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Methamphetamine is probably our biggest problem over here
0:20:01 > 0:20:03when it comes to drugs.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Before I came to Australia, I don't even think I'd heard of meth.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10But it... Now it's just... It's just taken over.
0:20:10 > 0:20:16Cos it's so easy to cook and you can do it anywhere with items
0:20:16 > 0:20:19that most households will have,
0:20:19 > 0:20:23there's so many people just taking up to cooking their own meth.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25And I think it's just so addictive.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28One or two hits of it and then they're just craving more
0:20:28 > 0:20:29and more and more.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34So the kids will go from cannabis to meth quite quickly,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37which is obviously a huge problem.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57In rural New South Wales, flying doctor Rebecca Barzeger is
0:20:57 > 0:21:01preparing her tiny patient for a life-saving flight.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04This baby weighs less than a bag of sugar
0:21:04 > 0:21:07and getting a drip in is proving difficult.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12No wonder we've struggled.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16But it's so small. Do you see what I mean?
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Or I might be able to go above here.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Above where they've gone.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26But I think we'll struggle to get gasses off it.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28If we...
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Yeah, I can see it trying to come out here.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36I'm trying to keep this moving.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40Just forget the lactate, if that helps.
0:21:40 > 0:21:45The needle must go in before the baby can fly as she may need drugs
0:21:45 > 0:21:48during the journey to the intensive care unit.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53It was like Christmas when that cannula went in.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58So we have a good sugar. A good gas.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Two cannulas. Happy with our tube position.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02Can I give you that one?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Yes. Thank you.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08At last, after two hours of preparation,
0:22:08 > 0:22:11the second twin is ready to leave the unit where she was born.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Ooh, there's just a bit of tension on the ventilator.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Yeah, there we go.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21One, two, three, lift. Right.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24Bed away and we'll slowly walk.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27I think we'll need to sit her in the incubator for about 20 minutes
0:22:27 > 0:22:29just to make sure that she's happy.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31But other than that she's got sedation running,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33she's got nice fluids running, her blood sugar's OK.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36Her blood gasses are OK. So she's doing pretty well.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40It's less than 24 hours since the twins' mum Amanda gave birth.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Now she faces her first ever flight.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Just need to get going, I think. That's the big thing.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49And hope that the plane doesn't jiggle too much
0:22:49 > 0:22:51because she doesn't like being jiggled around too much.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55When the ambulance was jiggling she showed us that she was annoyed.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01The pilot's been asked to fly as low as is safe to reduce
0:23:01 > 0:23:04the strain on his baby passenger's lungs.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09It's the distance that's the big thing.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12Like, in the UK, you'll go 30 miles and that's your distance.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Here, you're going 80, 90, 100.
0:23:15 > 0:23:20Three legs of the journey, ambulances to airports
0:23:20 > 0:23:24to two-hour flights sometimes, and it's a really long, long day.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33She's flown really well. No major catastrophes.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36So, yeah, she's been really good, actually.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39So mum's bag.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Brilliant, Mum, have you seen...? We're just going to take baby away
0:23:43 > 0:23:45and we'll see you there really shortly.
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Yeah, all right.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49All right, safe journey over.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53The last leg of the journey takes their patient
0:23:53 > 0:23:55to the special care baby unit in the town of Nepean.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01Premature babies are so unpredictable and especially
0:24:01 > 0:24:04when they've been twins as well.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Both of these babies have needed a bit of support
0:24:07 > 0:24:11with their breathing and things, so we're not out the woods as such.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13But so far, so good.
0:24:13 > 0:24:18Both babies and their mum are now in the best possible place.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21Rebecca's job is almost over.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24When we got there, it was clear that she needed a little bit more
0:24:24 > 0:24:27support from us and that's kind of a hairy moment where
0:24:27 > 0:24:30you need to help it breathe a little bit better so we actually
0:24:30 > 0:24:33made the decision to put a tube down the throat and into the lung area.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Into the breathing tube and breathe for the baby and that can
0:24:36 > 0:24:39always be a little bit stressful cos it's a high-risk procedure.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42But once that was in and that was sorted, the baby was very
0:24:42 > 0:24:45well behaved, tolerated the flight.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Didn't have any major catastrophes.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49So, yeah, she did well, I think.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53The twins spend two weeks in hospital before being allowed
0:24:53 > 0:24:58to fly home to the remote town of Parkes with their proud mum.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16In a country where a four-hour drive to the supermarket isn't
0:25:16 > 0:25:20unusual, the police take driving offences very seriously.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22British officers Colin Todd
0:25:22 > 0:25:25and Kate Mann are nearing the end of their shift.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Today we are just patrolling the local area,
0:25:28 > 0:25:31seeing what's going on, just seeing what jobs are in the area,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34what jobs are active, and then if anything pops up
0:25:34 > 0:25:36and it's worth patrolling,
0:25:36 > 0:25:38we'll just scan in the licence plates and see
0:25:38 > 0:25:43if we can get anything off the cars that are driving around in the area.
0:25:43 > 0:25:461,000 Aussies die every year on the roads,
0:25:46 > 0:25:50a casualty rate that's around 50% higher than the UK,
0:25:50 > 0:25:53and one driver has just caught Colin's attention.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56This car's registered to a company.
0:25:56 > 0:26:01So the car comes back all right but we don't know who's driving.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Its driver is about to face a friendly grilling.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07- The car's registered to a company. - Ah, yeah.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- So we just need to know who's driving, that's all.- Um, yeah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Have you got anything in the vehicle that you shouldn't have?- No.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- No drugs, nothing like that?- No. - Have you got anything?- No!
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Um, what we're going to do is we'll just search the car to make
0:26:18 > 0:26:20- sure you haven't got anything in there.- Yeah.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22- Are you all right for us to do that? - Yeah. Um, yeah.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- What I'll get you to do is I'll get you to turn the engine off.- Yeah.
0:26:25 > 0:26:27I'll get you guys just to step out on the side.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Just step off the road so we're not...
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Have you got any ID on you?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Yeah, I do.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Awesome.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- In a minute, I'll let Colin give you guys a quick pat down.- Yeah.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Cos obviously I don't want to do that cos I'm a girl.
0:26:41 > 0:26:42Right just to let you know it's an
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- offence not to consent, all right? - Yeah, sure.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47And if you withdraw your consent at any time it'll be done anyway.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Yeah.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54Thanks to the onboard computer, the police even know the
0:26:54 > 0:26:59passenger's nickname, the result of a brief career as a graffiti artist.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01You don't do it any more?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04Not after what I had to do when I got caught.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05What'd you have to do?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Like, 150 hours community service.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11What sort of thing did you have to do?
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Um, I went... Had to clean off graffiti.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Did they make you clean your own graffiti off?
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Uh, no it was just heaps of other stuff,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19cos all my stuff already got taken off.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24The vehicle and passenger are clean, and so is the driver.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Sadly, his licence isn't.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Your licence is actually fine-suspended.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- Just phone them up, that's the number.- Yeah, sure.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- Cos you're not allowed to drive from here.- No.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34- You got a licence?- Brett doesn't have a licence, no.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- No?- I wish.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- So just phone them up. There's yours.- Thank you.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42- Just phone them up, quote that number.- Yeah.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44And see if you can pay it right now. Awesome.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Awesome, yeah, cheers. OK, thanks for me letting me know about that.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49No dramas.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53If Aussies fail to pay traffic fines, their licences are suspended
0:27:53 > 0:27:56and so this is the end of the driver's journey.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58We've advised him that he can no longer drive
0:27:58 > 0:28:00until he pays his suspension.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02And we'll put an alert on the system so that
0:28:02 > 0:28:05if he gets stopped again and he hasn't done it he will then
0:28:05 > 0:28:09be summonsed for the offence of driving while being suspended.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12It's going to be a walk home for both men
0:28:12 > 0:28:15unless they can find another driver.
0:28:15 > 0:28:20And for Kate and Colin, it's back on patrol on another night shift,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22keeping their adopted city safe.