Episode 1 Real Rescues

Today on Real Rescues...

an emergency dash to hospital to save a life

just minutes after this 999 call.

Police head up the M1 motorway. A young couple have been pushed across three lanes of traffic.

You all right?

Listen, it's horrible. I know.

Just keep yourself nice and calm.

And stuck fast and sinking, a fisherman becomes the one

that couldn't get away.

I took one step and managed to get my foot out,

then the other foot went in, and the other, and I was stuck.

Hello, and welcome to Real Rescues.

The work of the emergency services

is all about making the right decisions calmly

but quickly.

Then man you're about to meet is suffering a heart attack.

It will be fatal unless the right choices are made.

Extraordinarily, if those choices are made correctly,

in this case, he'll be back home for tea the next day.

8am at Bournemouth Ambulance Station.

Technician Rob Milham is going through the regular checks he makes at the start of every shift.

Pop these away...

make sure we've got the consumables...

spare batteries...

airway kit...

dressings.

Most important piece of kit, plasters.

Lovely.

Now some checks.

Just waiting for the first call.

And most importantly, cup of tea.

Over at Ambulance Control in Ringwood,

a call handler is midway through a 999 call from a panicking wife.

It's one of the most serious.

A rapid response car has already been sent to the scene,

but this needs ambulance backup.

The call's passed through to technician Rob and crew-mate Doug Massey.

As they arrive at the house,

they find Brian gripped with chest pain.

He's been given some pain relief, but it's clear he's seriously ill.

You might feel a bit spaced out.

This pain relief stuff I've given you.

Make you feel like you've had a few G&Ts.

Brian, is it?

Mmm. This is going to feel very, very unsteady, OK?

Trust me - we've haven't dropped anyone since yesterday morning!

You're quite safe.

Senior paramedic Greg Peacock

was the first to arrive in the rapid response car.

He came in because he was starting to get tight in the chest.

He started to get cold, clammy. The pain was central

and started to radiate up into his left shoulder,

so he started to feel a bit awful with it.

He came up and lay on his bed

and thereafter I was called.

He's essentially showing some signs on his ECG

that we need to investigate that would indicate possibly he's having an MI.

An MI is a myocardial infarction -

in layman's terms, a heart attack.

And down again. All right? Yeah.

Rob knows the situation is serious, but he's trying to keep the mood light.

I know we've already had an ECG done,

by that machine, so I need to do it on a slightly better one.

What score would you give that pain, after coming down the stairs?

5 or 6. 5 or 6.

Does it feel like you've got somebody sitting on your chest?

Yeah. Does it go anywhere?

In your jaw or down your arm?

Down this arm. Down that arm?

You were doing your garden?

I was putting up a fence.

Putting up a fence?

Digging holes...

Did you have any shortness of breath? Yeah.

Yeah?

Brian is understandably feeling very worried.

You're 63, Brian? My maths isn't very good.

The ECG will tell them what's going on with Brian's heart.

The printout from the ECG shows what's called an ST elevation,

which indicates an artery is blocking.

It's a good job you called us so early.

We're catching this thing as it's starting.

I wouldn't have called you. It was the wife.

There you go. Wife always knows best, innit? Eh?

She wouldn't let you live this one down. No.

It's the start of what you know as a heart attack.

You've got very small signs of it.

Now, that sign has got slightly bigger from when Greg checked your heart.

So it's just got a slight bit bigger.

As we said, because your wife's phoned us so quickly,

we're catching it.

Brian's heart attack is in the early stages,

but it's serious enough for him to qualify for an emergency cardiac procedure,

where blockages in the heart can be removed while the patient is still awake.

Doug updates Brian's wife.

That's why I called.

Rob phones ahead to the hospital.

The cardiology team are on standby.

It's increased slightly. It's over one square of elevation now.

It's all going to happen very fast.

Rob prepares Brian.

We're going straight to the unit.

You'll have about six people around you.

It'll be manic. Everybody will be asking you questions.

Brace yourself for a bit of a bumpy ride.

SIREN BLARES

This is a blue light and siren emergency.

In the back of the ambulance, Brian's pain is increasing.

He needs another dose of the spray which dilates the arteries,

making it easier for the heart to work.

You know when I gave you that medicine under the tongue?

I'll give you a bit more now,

just to see if that pain will go. Lift your tongue up...

There we go. All right?

The indications are that a major artery is blocking up more and more,

damaging the heart muscle.

There's also a risk of cardiac arrest,

where the heart stops beating altogether.

They're making good progress, but less than a mile from the hospital,

roadworks almost bring them to a standstill.

Thankfully, the traffic clears,

an sirens get them through the red lights

and onwards to Bournemouth Hospital.

Later, cardiologists search for the clot

that's causing Brian's heart attack.

Just try to keep very still for us, Brian.

We're not entirely sure what the problem is.

Thames Valley traffic officers PC Ryan Wildes and Neil Stephenson

are travelling at speed up the M1.

A member of the public has reported an accident.

Someone's that's passed by has called it in.

They've seen a vehicle spinning in the carriageway.

It's hit the central reservation.

The M1 is one of the UK's vital routes,

but it doesn't take much to jam up.

There are no reports of injuries.

It means the police should be able to clear the road quickly,

but they don't know all the details yet.

They arrive to find two cars blocking lane three,

one vehicle facing the wrong way.

PC Wildes heads over to find out what's happened.

Is anyone hurt at all?

And you are a passer-by?

That's my car. I was just coming down.

I watched the car spin and just whacked my emergencies on.

Who are you, sir?

Who are you?

And how were you involved?

So you two have come to hit each other?

What nationality are you, sir?

PC Stephenson sets about moving the damaged car right away.

In a well-rehearsed move, the road is cleared in less than a minute.

Wait there for me.

There are no serious injuries, but the woman in the damaged car

is shaken and upset.

You all right?

Listen. It's horrible, I know.

Just keep yourself nice and calm for us.

I know it's horrible.

Do you want to sit down in the front of your car?

So at least you've got somewhere to sit down. Go to the passenger side.

Have you got your driving licence on you, mate?

Driving licence, insurance - can you go and get it for us?

All the paperwork. So your green slips for your insurance,

and your driving licence.

The lorry driver has already said he was at fault before the collision.

It's been a terrifying ordeal for the young couple,

as they were buffeted all the way across the fast lane into the barrier.

Dean and Kirsty were heading north to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.

PC Wildes wants to check up on passenger Kirsty.

I've got a female in shock at the roadside.

It wouldn't hurt to get her checked out by an ambulance.

But Control has already organised an ambulance.

Cancel the ambo - it's arrived.

While Kirsty gets checked over,

the lorry driver helps the police with their enquiries.

You're not in any trouble.

It has happened.

We just need to write down a report.

And then you can go.

Just stay put for me.

He's driven over from Europe, and the lorry is left-hand drive.

Obviously, the truck is set on the left-hand side

if they're from the Continent.

So there is a big blind spot.

They do have mirrors that they can put

on the offside of their vehicle to help them see.

But on this occasion, I don't think he's looked properly

and he's taken out the car.

PC Ryan is still concerned about Kirsty.

She's so shaken, it may be masking possible injuries.

I wish I was 24 again!

Despite the trauma, the couple are being very understanding about the collision.

We've done a full report, saying that it's his fault,

so you won't have any issues with regards to insurance.

But for the purposes of him,

he's allowed to go on his way. It's just kept on record,

the fact that he's crashed into you.

If it was a British trucker, we'd perhaps be looking at giving him a driving course,

a driving improvement course or something like that.

But it's difficult for any proceedings to go ahead with a foreign driver.

There's no other way of doing it other than locking them up.

It's like you going on holiday to Spain

and having a little crash and them sticking you in a prison cell.

It's the equivalent.

Take care. Happy anniversary!

Kirsty has neck pain, so she's going to be examined in hospital.

Recovery has arrived to take away the damaged car.

It's been an unfortunate end to the couple's holiday.

But they're not badly injured.

They will remember their first wedding anniversary, but not in quite the way they had intended.

I'm hoping to have a chat with Tara if she's not on a call.

Are you free? Yeah. Lovely.

How are you with spiders?

I don't like them. I gathered that,

because you took a call about spiders.

I did indeed.

It was a homeless chap who was

staying in one of his friend's house.

He came downstairs in the morning

to find that the house was crawling with spiders.

Not only was the house full of spiders,

but the outside of the house and the garden was

and so was the road that the house was on as well.

Where had all these spiders come from?

The friend's house he was staying at

actually incubated and kept all these rare breeds of spiders

and they'd both had an altercation,

so he'd decided to maliciously let out these spiders on this bloke.

That's horrible! Your skin must have been crawling.

Absolutely!

It was horrible, absolutely horrible.

Was he safe from the spiders?

At the time, the most important thing for me

was trying to make sure that he was safe

and to work out if these spiders were exotic

or whether they were UK breeds.

Because UK breeds aren't poisonous,

but exotic ones certainly are. Had he been bitten at all?

Throughout the call, he then disclosed to me

that his blood was turning purple

and he thinks he might have been bitten.

So immediately, I got on to ambulance

to get them out and assess this man to make sure he was all right.

Who else can you send along to an event like that?

We got straight on to the RSPCA,

especially to see if they've got any specialist officers

who know how to deal with spiders.

Because for us, it was getting there as soon as possible

to try and make sure members of the public were safe

from this outbreak of spiders as well,

that were making their way onto the road.

For someone who hates spiders, this was your worst possible nightmare.

It was indeed! Were they dangerous spiders?

They ended up being UK breeds,

but very rare UK breeds.

We had some with yellow on the back of them.

We also had some, black bulbous...

I don't want to... I don't like spiders very much!

So we won't talk any more about that!

You're all right with snakes, oddly enough? I am.

You had a call about a snake as well. I did indeed.

A man came back home to find a snake in the corridor of his house.

He was absolutely petrified of snakes.

It was the first thing, trying to control him,

trying to tell him that,

you know, these snakes aren't...they're not harmful

and they're probably more frightened of him

than he is of the actual snake.

But I told him to contain the snake where it was in the corridor.

If he can, to try and put a bowl on top of it.

He wasn't willing to do that,

so I was happy with the containment on the corridor.

Would you have been happy to put a bowl over a big spider? No!

I wouldn't have done that!

So what kind of snake did it turn out to be in the end?

It was an adder.

There you go. Knowing that might be the case,

I've got a picture here,

in case you wanted to know what an adder looks like,

as it is the only poisonous British snake.

You can identify it from the diamond markings.

That's upside down. There you go.

So that doesn't bother you at all?

No. I've got a big one of a spider here... Don't you dare!

Thank you very much, Tara. Thank you.

Stuck up to his knees in mud and sinking,

an early-morning trip to dig for bait has turned into an emergency

for fisherman Colin Marchant.

I was going fishing on the Sunday, so I went down on the Saturday

to collect bait. Dug for worms for an hour and a half

and then thought I'd pack up. It did rain a little bit,

so I got a bit wet.

I walked along, no trouble, just walking along in the mud as normal

and then I just hit a bit... I took one step

and managed to get my foot out, then the other foot went in and that was it - I was stuck.

Colin has tried to do all he can to get himself out,

but whatever he does, he just keeps sinking.

I didn't move about too much, because I was going to sink more.

So I got my fork

and my left foot, I managed to dig it out.

But of course, my right leg was sinking further in the mud,

the more I moved, so I ended up with one foot up in the air,

standing on the fork, and the other one right in the mud.

I couldn't even pull my welly off. I couldn't get out the mud at all.

By now, the tide at the River Adur in Sussex is on its way in.

All Colin can do is try to get help.

Luckily, he's spotted by a passing dog-walker,

who soon realises just how dangerous the situation is.

So I shouted at him,

I said I was stuck.

He said, "Who do you want me to call?"

I said, "Anybody" and he called the fire brigade.

And the response is immediate.

Fire and rescue are on scene, as well as ambulance, the coastguard

and the RNLI's inshore lifeboat,

deigned for shallow and inshore water rescues.

We eventually observed the gentleman

about ten foot away from the water, but obviously, the tide was rising.

Knowing that the sands or the mud

was quite soft there,

I needed to get the boat

as close as I could to him,

so that my crew were able to get out straight from the boat

without getting stuck themselves.

And the situation is getting worse for Colin.

It was really aching, my leg. I'd really hurt it.

I'd stood there so long.

And it was quite painful.

The crews are worried about the falling temperature

and the risk of hypothermia.

He's been stuck in the cold, wet mud for an hour.

There was a bit concern, obviously. Although he hadn't entered the water,

it was seven o'clock in the morning.

It's still quite chilly at the time of the year,

so there was some concern that he may have got some hypothermia.

Using specially designed mud mats

and inflatable pathways, the rescuers can walk safely over the mud

without sinking in.

Now it's just a case of freeing Colin's trapped leg.

The mud was that soft, it was just literally scooping the mud away from around his foot

and giving him a little tug.

Obviously, he was sitting on the mud mat.

His leg came up.

It was just a relief to be able to stand up again.

It was just awful, just stuck like that, not being able to move.

They said I might lose my wellingtons.

I thought, "I don't want to lose my wellingtons, cos they're new!"

Finally free from the mud,

Colin is checked over by the waiting paramedics, who give him the all-clear.

But there is far worse to come for Colin when he eventually arrives home.

I had to face the wife at the front door.

She was there waiting for me when I got home,

because I told the police to ring her to tell her.

And she thought I was on Shoreham Beach, not on the river.

So I did get into trouble when I got home!

Looking back, Colin is relieved that HE was the one that got away.

I was just embarrassed.

I caused a lot of people a lot of work.

I'm just glad they got me out.

Coming up on Real Rescues...

Animal rescue specialists struggle to get hold of a young deer

trapped in a waterway after leaping over a fence.

And a young schoolboy has come out in a mystery rash.

He's normally far more sprightly than this?

He's quite boisterous usually!

Like all boys!

Inside an ambulance heading for hospital,

63-year-old Brian is having a heart attack.

Hopefully, that will reduce that pain a little bit more.

Paramedic team Rob Milham and Doug Massey are taking him

to the Cardiac Unit at Bournemouth Hospital.

His wife dialled 999

after Brian complained of crushing chest pain.

If they've caught it early enough, doctors may be able

to stop the heart attack causing permanent and life-changing damage.

Minutes after leaving the ambulance,

Brian is in the hospital.

Sats 97.

Thank you.

If you have any pain or discomfort, just let me know.

Brian will be conscious throughout the procedure.

I'm going to give you some local anaesthesia,

to numb the area, numb the skin.

You're doing very well.

Consultant Dr Sunil Talwar

arrives to continue the angioplasty.

How are you doing there, sir?

Just trying to get in to your artery...

We'll look after you. You're in a very safe place.

We'll take good care of you.

How much pain are you having now, out of 10?

5 or 6. 5 or 6.

Just a bit of pushing.

It's just a tube going up your wrist.

The tube will allow a wire to be passed from Brian's wrist

along arteries all the way to his heart.

It's tied in place to prevent any possibility of movement.

If you just keep still for me, all right, sir?

Catheter.

Just try to keep very still for us, Brian, OK?

Using the X-ray machine, the wire is now visible

inside the artery near Brian's heart.

As blood fills the artery,

Dr Talwar looks for the blockage.

We're not entirely sure what the problem is.

Keep the long wire ready, guys.

The wire is fed along a different artery.

OK...

This time, it's successful.

Can we have an aspiration catheter?

So what we've found here is a blocked artery.

Brian, we're making good progress. We've found a blockage.

It's in your right coronary artery.

We're just going to suck out some of the clot,

then we'll put a stent into it and we'll get you back to the ward for a couple of days

and home the day after tomorrow.

How does that sound?

Just bear with us. Keep very still for me.

The clot that's causing Brian's excruciating pain

is about to be sucked out of his artery.

The effect is immediate.

Is the chest pain any easier, Brian?

It's easier? Good, good.

Give me a stent.

355. 28.

Keep still, Brian. Just keep still, please.

Well done. I know it's not easy.

The artery is inflated to allow a small tube, or stent,

to be inserted.

This will remain inside, to keep it open.

Brian, how is the pain now in your chest? A lot better?

Good, good. We're two or three minutes away from finishing.

We're getting good results here, by the way.

It's looking very, very good.

Can we have some fluids, please?

The blood is flowing freely.

Brian, we managed to open up the artery. It looks beautiful.

Job done.

I'll see you later on, on Coronary Care.

It's looking beautiful.

The clot that could have cost Brian his life

is no bigger than a grain of rice.

20 minutes after arriving in the Critical Care Unit,

Brian's heart is working normally.

How's the chest feeling now?

Good. See you later.

Thanks, guys. Thanks very much.

The paramedic team can now head back to the ambulance,

satisfied they made the right decision to alert the hospital cardiology unit

and get him straight to hospital.

He's a very lucky boy.

Bless the wife. Yeah, bless the wife.

It should have had far more change on his ECG as well.

It was recovering.

We thought we'd get laughed at when we got out there,

but he was straight in there.

Superb. Very good. He'll be home in a couple of days.

Hopefully fixing the garden. Yeah, he's got that fence to put up!

But putting up fences is probably not top of Brian's list at the moment.

I'll go and let your wife know what's going on.

While his patient is taken through to the ward,

Dr Talwar reviews the operation images.

If we look at the artery going down the front of the heart,

that artery has got some very minor narrowings,

but it's in reasonably good shape.

The problem in his case

was this right coronary artery,

which is shown here. What we've got is a blockage up here.

I managed to get a wire across the blockage.

There's the wire gone through.

And then we sucked out some clot,

and then after that, you can see in the picture what we've got.

The artery has now opened up, we've sucked some of the clot out

and there's the narrowing of the artery.

So we then put a stent in from here

to around here.

And after the stent was put in,

this is what the artery looked like.

Nicely open with excellent flow down the vessel.

And his ECG changed as a result, immediately after stenting

and he felt much, much better.

And the plan is he goes to our Coronary Care Unit.

Today's Thursday, so we hope to get him home by Saturday morning.

That's the plan.

The right side was completely blocked.

Later, Rob and Doug barely get time for lunch

before they're called out to the next job...

..a child with a nasty rash and a concerned mum.

Obviously, the first thing anyone thinks of

when they see rashes like that,

everyone worries about meningitis.

Going on stag dos can be quite a dangerous business,

especially for the stag, as it normally involves you being tied naked to a lamp-post at some stage.

But the danger is not just to the stag.

It can also be to the other people going along,

as Hayley can explain. You all right to chat? Sure.

Tell us about this call you had.

It was a gentleman who got lost in the woods.

On a stag do? On a stag do, yes.

He was camping and he decided he wanted to go home,

so he managed to walk home by himself,

but ended up getting lost in the woods, hurt his hand on a fence

and called 999 and didn't know where he was.

So he's lost and a bit emotional... Drunk? Yeah, drunk.

As you are on stag dos! I imagine.

And lost at this stage. So how do you go about finding him?

I tried to narrow it down to what he could hear,

what he could see,

where he last was - what pub was he last in?

And he said he could hear stuff like a brook in the background.

So I knew he was near a river of some sort or a bridge.

I gathered as much information as I could

and eventually he said that he did actually remember being on a road.

So that was good.

So what my idea was to find him

was to get him to go on that road and see if he could see a house

or a registration number from a car.

From the registration number on the car, I could get a registered owner and address

and that's where I could have found him. And he did, which was great.

And managed to find him. So you got the police and ambulance along? Was he all right in the end?

He was all right, yeah. He was fine.

He went to A&E and got it bandaged up, and I'm sure learned a valuable lesson about drinking on stag dos!

Yeah, a little embarrassing, isn't it,

how the boys get all emotional when they go and have a few?

Thank you very much. Very clever how you managed to find him.

In a waterway in Norfolk,

a young deer has ended up trapped in a river after leaping over a fence.

There is some dry land, but no way out from this blocked-off river in King's Lynn.

Staff at the local newspaper have called out fire and rescue

and the RSPCA.

Filming it all is junior reporter Lucy Ruthnum.

DEER SQUEALS

It was trapped in the reeds

and running up and down, trying to jump out.

It had obviously jumped in and couldn't make it out again.

It was getting quite tired,

and it was calling for its mother.

I think it was more worrying that it was just going to tire itself out

and then get stuck in the water and drown.

King's Lynn animal rescue specialists

are going to wade in, and with the help of an RSPCA officer,

corral and catch the animal.

In charge, Tim Edwards.

There wasn't really an option to leave it,

because it wouldn't have been able to find an exit route.

We have specialist kit which can get ourselves safely into the water

to effect the rescue.

The river may be relatively shallow,

but it's not without hidden dangers.

It is a risky place to be,

and certainly, I wouldn't want to be in there without the kit we have.

It is quite deep mud. The water has got contaminants in it, potentially.

So there is a number of risks we're dealing with.

Progress is difficult.

They're wading through thick mud

and the river bed shelves deeply in parts.

Now the deer is on dry land, they plan to trap it here,

but suddenly it bolts.

The rescuers know it's a dead end. The deer will be forced to run back towards them.

Moments later, it's back.

It's their first chance to get close, but the deer gets away again.

This is a desperate and frightened animal, looking for any way out.

Oh!

The deer can only swim up and down.

The rescue team lay in wait again, and sure enough,

the animal heads straight for them.

But it's almost impossible to get hold of.

They're going to try and corral it in the water.

Success!

DEER SQUEALS

Despite the animal's obvious anguish,

it is now safe.

The crews worked well.

They cornered the deer, and at that point,

the RSPCA guy was the one that had the honours of grabbing the animal.

DEER SHRIEKS Oh, that's a heartbreaking sound, isn't it?

To a wild animal, this rescue team are the enemy.

By now, the rescue is drawing quite a few onlookers

with differing opinions.

Very mixed reactions!

There were a lot of people who were, as we were,

clutching their hearts and thinking, "Oh, poor little deer"

Then there was some of the older gentlemen

who were more of the belief that it should be eaten for dinner.

I think I actually told a little old man off

for his comments about how tasty this deer would be.

DEER SHRIEKS

Station Manager Tim is pleased it's out of danger.

It's been an invaluable training lesson as well for his crew.

On this occasion, it was a deer,

but there is a possibility that we could have a person or child that goes into the river,

so it's good to have the opportunity to train in this kind of environment

where we've got an outcome in mind.

Inside the cage, the deer begins to calm down.

The last few steps of this rescue operation are very heavy going.

Back on dry land, the deer is handed over to the care of the RSPCA.

Lucy checked later on his progress.

They did confirm for me that it had been taken off

and was safely released, because they checked it over

to make sure it wasn't injured.

And they said they'd released it close enough

so it would be able to find its family or any other deer around the area.

Bournemouth Ambulance Station.

Technician Rob Milham and paramedic Doug Massey

have had a busy morning.

They've just taken a patient with chest pains straight into hospital

and witnessed him undergoing a life-saving procedure.

Now they're grabbing a quick lunch.

"All we could afford was eggs and Spam!"

Not bad.

We've still got another four hours to go. Lovely(!)

No sooner have they sat down to eat when another job comes in.

SIREN BLARES

This time, a younger patient.

They're needed at an infant school in Bournemouth.

A rash has appeared all over the body of a six-year-old boy.

The team are all too aware that a sudden rash can be a symptom

of the life-threatening infection meningitis.

Hello, Callum.

How are you feeling, mate?

Do you want to have a little seat?

Callum's mum, Tracey, has rushed to the school from work.

Let me get my little bag of tricks over here.

So, Callum, what's been going on today, then?

The little boy is looking very subdued.

You've got these little spots everywhere, haven't you?

How long have they been there? Did he have them this morning? No, nothing at all.

How's he been the last couple of days? Fine. He had an itchy foot

this morning, and an itchy thumb.

But I thought it was just because he was stung yesterday. Stung with...? A nettle.

OK. Is it itchy, Callum?

The irritated skin could be an allergic reaction.

You've not changed anything, like your washing powder? Nothing.

Have you tried any new foods today?

No, nothing new?

Can I see your tummy?

See the rash on there as well. Little bits all over the place, isn't there?

Has Callum had things like chickenpox? Yes.

All up-to-date with his vaccinations? Yes.

Let me just pop this in your ear, take your temperature.

Gently, Steve takes Callum through a few standard tests.

How have you been today? Have you been running around and playing OK?

No, you've not really felt like it?

No.

Your temperature's up a little bit.

I need to borrow one of your fingers now.

Which one's your biggest finger?

That one? Pop it in there.

This will tell me how fast your heart's beating. There we go.

Your heart's doing 108 beats a minute. That's quite quick.

This tells us how much oxygen you've got.

97 - that's more than enough, that is.

I take it Callum's normally far more...

sprightly than this? Yes, he's quite boisterous usually.

Ah, yeah! Like all boys.

Yeah.

The next test - blood sugar levels - can hurt a little bit.

Phew! Have you got smelly feet?

Right, ready? Quick scratch. One, two, three...

There we go. Good boy.

But it doesn't seem to bother Callum.

I've got to give your foot a squeeze to try and get out enough...

Cor! You're going to be good with your money when you're older.

There we go. Right.

Let's have a little look.

Apart from a high temperature, the test results are normal.

Steve reassures mum Tracey.

Obviously, the first thing anyone thinks of when they see rashes like that,

everyone worries about meningitis.

But two things that are very important here...

They disappear. A meningitis rash wouldn't do that.

They're also quite raised.

But he's got quite a high temperature at 38.5.

Generally, the paediatric doctors prefer us to take him in,

just to rule out any other nasty rashes or things like that.

But pretty much, this is a nice safe one. Nice and bumpy.

Disappears well.

Callum's going to get a ride in the ambulance to Poole Hospital.

Mums are built with superhuman strength!

Steve and mum Tracey try to cheer up Callum.

Wait till I tell him you had to go in an ambulance! He'll be really jealous.

Pull your lip right down, like that.

I just wanted to make you pull a silly face!

Very good.

Some medicine should help make him feel better.

Well done. All gone.

You're very quiet, Callum.

Horrible when they're not well, isn't it? He's never, ever been this quiet.

And a few minutes later, Callum starts to perk up.

What cars are you collecting?

My little boy likes those.

And he really likes Beyblades.

More than 100 Hot Wheels?!

Wow!

You've made a good improvement already, mate.

You're much happier.

By the time they reach the hospital, he's looking a lot more sprightly.

There's a big old step to jump down there. Only big huge people can go down it.

There we are.

But the rash is still there.

Doug will see him into A&E,

leaving Rob to ready the ambulance for the next call-out.

Later, mum Tracey reveals the rare cause of her son's mystery rash.

Throughout the programme, we've been following the emergency crews

saving Brian, who collapsed in his garden with excruciating chest pains.

Within 30 minutes of his wife Lesley making the 999 call,

Brian was in the cardiology unit of Bournemouth Hospital

undergoing a procedure to remove a clot.

He'd suffered a heart attack.

He was awake throughout the procedure

and recalls the moment of relief when the pain just stopped.

It was more or less an instantaneous relief.

And the pain just melted away, more or less.

And after that, no pain at all.

It was very strange.

Very strange sensation.

He's now recovering well, and his wife is relieved

she took the action she did.

He didn't know what was happening,

and I knew it was pretty bad.

So he knew what I said in the past

that I wouldn't wait, and he had no choice!

This is the offending fence.

As for the fence Brian had been putting up when he collapsed,

that has been finished, but by his son.

Beautiful, isn't it? This part's pretty good.

The first two panels are the best ones!

Yeah, he's made a good job of that.

The couple whose car was buffeted across three lanes of traffic

on the M1 survived their terrifying ordeal,

but the trauma of it has not left them.

Dean and Kirsty had been on their way to the Lakes

to celebrate their first wedding anniversary when they were knocked

by an articulated lorry into the central barrier,

leaving them facing into oncoming traffic.

It's horrible, I know.

Just keep yourself nice and calm for us.

I can just remember just seeing the lorry

as I looked out my mirror.

I said to Dean, "The lorry's coming in the middle lane."

I was starting to panic a little bit.

And the next thing I knew, the wing mirror just came off.

I remember I closed my eyes and I could just feel the car moving.

I was screaming. I was absolutely screaming.

I couldn't believe what was happening.

Then I opened my eyes and I could see that we were facing the oncoming traffic.

So, it was just awful. An awful experience.

The couple were checked over in hospital and both suffered whiplash.

It's also put them off driving on motorways.

Kirsty was in a bad way. She went to hospital. She had to have a few X-rays done on her back.

Myself...I was in a lot of shock,

but really I didn't start to feel anything until a few days after.

I had very bad whiplash

and back pains as well, which still haven't completely cleared up.

I always thought I was the sort of person that

something like that wouldn't affect me so much, but then when it happens,

you notice things in a big way.

The Romanian lorry driver admitted that he had caused the accident.

The accident will remain on record, but no further action was taken by the police.

And Callum, the six-year-old boy who was taken to hospital after developing an irritable rash,

was given antihistamine.

But the rash got worse overnight.

He was just very motionless, very hot,

irritable, just crying all the time.

He was in and out... He would sleep, then come round for a few minutes, then go back off to sleep.

I just didn't know whether he was going to flake out.

It was really scary at the time.

Callum had more tests, and it turns out he's developed a rare allergy to an insect.

They just said that it was definitely an allergic reaction,

but whereas they first thought it was the hairs in the stinging nettle,

they're more likely to believe it was from a hairy caterpillar underneath the leaves of the nettle

than the actual hairs on the nettle,

because he'd been stung previously by a nettle and didn't have a reaction.

From now on, he'll be keeping well away from nettles

and not just because they sting.

Callum knows that he can look at caterpillars,

but not to touch them now.

So he just admires them when they're walking on the wall. He doesn't like holding them any more.

Once again, we've seen today that the emergency services

are ready and waiting to help us out

in our moments of greatest needs.

That's it for today's Real Rescues.

See you next time.

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