Episode 14 Real Rescues

Today on Real Rescues, the race to save a cow and its unborn calf.

You need to lay flat on your belly and put your arm down alongside her torso.

The heifer's stuck in six feet of slurry

and it's starting to give birth.

Two men are pulled from the sea, moments from drowning.

Rescue workers battle to save them.

And a 999 call - a fire at a pub.

The thatch is alight, as customers drink inside.

Hello and welcome to Real Rescues.

Throughout this series we've followed the work of the police, fire and rescue, ambulance

and coastguard

and within the services there are many specialist units,

trained to cope with more unusual emergencies.

For example, the fire and rescue service has experts trained to deal

with incidents involving animals.

Today, we're going to an extraordinary rescue,

one the animal specialists will never forget.

The fire and rescue service are needed at a farm just outside Winchester.

A valuable animal is in danger.

A desperate sight greets them - a cow is struggling to stay alive

after falling into six feet of slurry.

There's not just one life at risk here - this heifer is pregnant.

What's worse, it's all happening as it was being moved to give birth.

This animal's been in labour for two hours.

Animal specialist Anton Phillips and his crew will have to work

in liquid animal waste to free the heifer.

The cow was really wound up.

You can tell by looking in their face, looking in their eyes,

and this particular heifer, she was really upset, really wound up

and probably really scared.

The plan is to pull the animal out with straps.

They will operate on inflatable pathways to minimise their exposure to the slurry.

Got to slide it down. Literally just guide this across now.

You're in.

The environment is full of flies. The smell is horrendous.

In fact, it gets into absolutely everything.

Those suits will smell for weeks afterwards.

It's a very difficult environment in which to work.

Just gently, gently.

First, the heifer must be sedated.

All right, cow. All right, cow.

A frightened animal like this could kill with one kick.

Good girl, good girl.

In a human emergency, you can normally reassure a casualty.

Because it's an animal, we had no way of saying, "Calm down,

"help is on the way."

Good girl.

Weighing around 600kg, in water, in fluid,

potentially, that cow could bring one of us down and drown one of us

or several of us.

We needed a very decent amount of sedative.

Vet Pete Platt has to get all of the tranquilliser in.

Two jabs and it's done.

Good girl.

He has only moments to put on the head restraint

which will keep the heifer's head out of the slurry.

The crew have just 45 minutes to get this animal out of the slurry

and then remove its unborn calf.

Duncan, you're going to need to lay flat on your belly

and put your arm down alongside her torso.

It's the worst job.

With their arms at full stretch, they try to pass the strops under the animal.

The stench is almost overpowering.

Yeah. But even with a strop guide to help them,

locating the strop ends is proving desperately difficult.

Finally, success.

Just check - is it behind her front legs, guys?

Behind her front legs and nice and tight?

And then we're going to try and slide her up onto a path.

Yeah. We're going to need a tractor to pull it.

With the help of a tractor, the heifer is inched onto the inflatable pathway.

Once on board, they can now pull it to the base of a concrete ramp.

Stop, stop! Right, stop.

Anton wraps a sheet around the heifer's head

to protect its eyes from the gravel.

Bit more, then. Go on.

It's then moved onto a rescue mat.

Just there. Lovely, OK.

The pressure is on. To save this animal, they have to get her calf out

and do it before the sedative wears off.

That'll do for a minute.

Hang on. She's waking up, boys and girls.

We felt really pressured because we could hear people saying in the background,

"15 minutes, 10 minutes.

"Come on, guys, we've got to be quick."

Then a worrying discovery. The calf's hooves are visible.

The protective sac around the calf has been broken.

Cow man Pat Wilcox knows both calf and mother have been exposed

to the toxic slurry.

The risk of infection is high.

I remember talking to Pat and saying, "There's no hope.

"This isn't going to be alive. No way."

Pat's not going to give up on one of his prize heifers.

Later, cow man Pat fights to save the mother and the calf.

Air-sea rescue at Lee-on-Solent.

There's an emergency on the Sussex coast.

On duty, winch man and paramedic Alf Kitwood.

The pilot heads east. They're going to West Wittering,

a popular beach, especially at the height of summer.

The coastguard is reporting a group of people in trouble in the water.

A call came through for multiple casualties in the water

off Wittering's beach, which is something not the norm,

so quickly into the aircraft and en route.

We're trying to fathom out exactly what was going on.

At least one person is reported as unconscious and not breathing.

It's early evening but the beach is still packed.

It's impossible for the helicopter to land

but they can't delay this rescue.

I needed to get down on the beach as soon as possible.

Looking down onto the beach, it was incredibly busy.

It was packed out for a summer's day.

Couldn't find a space to land, so the pilot elected to winch me down over the sea

and then manoeuvre into a position to put me onto the edge of the beach.

Recorded on Alf Kitwood's helmet camera,

a group of people is seen huddling around a man on the sand.

He's too weak to move but he is breathing, thanks to the lifeguards.

An ambulance crew is already on the beach.

Paramedic Steve Andrews brings Alf up to date.

RADIO: Go ahead.

Alf goes to check the second casualty.

It's clear the two casualties were just moments from drowning

when they were pulled from the water by a vigilant jet-skier

and trained lifeguard.

I noticed there was a dark shadow in the water.

It wasn't until I was about five to ten metres away

that I realised it was actually a body face down in the water.

So I approached him, I grabbed an arm,

swung him onto the back of my jet-ski.

I had to rope in a member of the public as well

to help me clamp him onto the back of the rescue sled.

But James' work is not over. There's another man in trouble.

As I did this, I noticed there was a second casualty in the water,

probably another ten, 15 metres further out

into the middle of what we call The Trench.

This guy was face down on a body board.

His head was out of the water,

so immediately, it was my priority to get the first one in as quickly as possible.

When I pulled the first guy out, there was really no response.

Sort of foaming at the mouth, sort of spluttering,

but there was no breath there.

Now James has to go back to rescue the second man.

I grabbed his arm. He was very limp, sort of semi-conscious.

As we got back onto the beach, we lifted him up the beach a little bit, clear of the water,

and then set him down in the recovery position,

where he proceeded to be sick

but at that point, he was still breathing.

Both men are breathing but not out of danger

and suddenly reports come through there could be a third person in cardiac arrest.

PEOPLE SHOUTING

Coastguard volunteers continue the search for the third man,

leaving air paramedic Alf to organise airlifting the two known casualties to hospital.

Take them further back. OK, I got it, yes.

He needs the helicopter back urgently

but there are still crowds of people on the beach.

Alf gets everyone organised to act as soon as the helicopter lands.

He radios for the helicopter.

Later, as the casualties are airlifted to hospital,

one of them takes a turn for the worse.

My casualty required his airway supporting

whilst en route down to the A department.

The M27 stretches for 25 miles along the south coast.

Like most weekday mornings, at 8am it's busy

and today, there's an emergency.

The nearest ambulance is on its way.

On board, technician Stacey Smith

and emergency care assistant Jordan Gablin.

HORN BEEPS, SIREN WHOOPS

We've just passed the incident on the opposite side of the road.

I can see one car up against the barrier.

There are several resources there already - the police, the fire

and one of our RVs as well.

Traffic is at a complete standstill.

Four vehicles have been caught up in the shunt.

All attention is on the driver of the silver car.

She is a 27-year-old female.

Bringing Stacey up to date is student paramedic Jade Foley,

who stopped on her way to training.

And instantly winded, unable to get out of the vehicle.

I was walking towards the crash.

The policeman was telling me to go back to my car

and when I shouted to him that I was ambulance service,

he beckoned me over, so I knew that something was wrong.

It's the first time Jade has worked alone.

And lungs are clear, SATS at 79%.

But she's trained with senior paramedics for two years

and seen many accidents.

Maria was complaining of quite severe back and neck pain

and a really nasty headache.

So I just sat with her and tried to calm her down

because she was obviously quite upset and shocked by what had happened.

I just tried to calm her down.

The car was travelling at about 60mph

when it went into the car in front.

The priority is to get the driver out of the car as quickly and safely as possible.

The fire crew soon have the roof off.

The woman is complaining of considerable pain

and Jade goes in to reassure her.

The driver has been given an injection of morphine.

She's also taking gas and air.

Shane, do you want her on the scoop? Are we going to transfer her onto the scoop?

So shall we get her onto the stretcher

and then we'll just scoop it and lift it?

The car has taken quite an impact

and the woman's pain levels are high.

Emergency care practitioner Mark Ainsworth Smith is on site,

as well as the ambulance crew.

They'll work together to get her out.

The back board slides in first,

so the injured driver can be carefully lowered to a horizontal position.

All the time, trainee Jade is by her side,

letting her know what's happening.

Ready, brace and lift.

Finally out of the car, ambulance technician Stacey takes over.

Hello. Maria, we're just going to get you onto yet another stretcher.

All right? There's two pieces that come in either side of you.

It feels a bit strange but you're perfectly safe.

On roll. Ready, set, roll.

OK. And back. Ready, set, back.

ECP Mark regularly trains students like Jade

but usually in the classroom.

Well done, Maria. You've done really, really well, OK?

These guys were on their way to trauma training.

Wow! You don't need to go now.

The first aid's really boring because I teach it.

Is that where you're supposed to be?

With the blocks taped firmly in place,

the driver is now completely secure.

Her spine is completely immobilised. There is no risk of further injury.

If you do feel sick, tell us straightaway, OK?

We've given you something to stop you feeling sick

but if you're lying like this and you start vomiting,

that's a concern for us and you must tell us straightaway. OK.

We'll get you in the back of the ambulance.

It'll be much warmer in there.

It's the end of the driver's car and her day at the office.

Her husband has been told and is meeting the ambulance at the hospital.

She's got a good radial pulse. Yeah, yeah.

After a quick consultation with Mark,

they can leave for the hospital.

Yeah, we're happy, then. Yeah, thank you.

Give us a shout if you need anything. All right, will do.

We're just about to turn into the hospital now, all right?

The pain relief is working.

The woman is feeling much more comfortable, even though she's strapped to a long board.

Inside, the casualty will be x-rayed and examined fully

to discover what injuries she's suffered.

Here's an interesting thing.

Not everybody who calls in to ask for help can speak English

and that presents a problem.

If Cat's not on a call... Are you all right to talk? Yeah.

So what do you do when somebody calls in but can't speak English?

They must be really panicked to be calling at all.

Yes, we've had several calls from people who don't speak the language.

For instance, I had a call from a Chinese gentleman

whose wife was in a lot of pain

but all I could get from him was the address and the postcode.

OK. And can you hear her in the background?

Yes, she was crying out. You could tell she was in a lot of pain.

So this sounds like a serious call.

Is it easy to establish what language they do speak?

Because if they don't speak English, then you asking, "What language?" is kind of...

It's not always easy but we do get there eventually. OK.

So you had a pretty good idea this person was Chinese,

even if he couldn't tell you. Yeah.

So what do you do then? How do you go about getting that specialist knowledge and help?

Well, we have a special phone number for this - the Language Line.

If you come round, on the screen you can see there's different kinds of services

available to the call-takers here.

And this one here is Language Line.

So you fire onto that one. Yeah and it gives us the phone number, which we would call,

and we give them a code that lets them know it's the ambulance service calling

and they would find an interpreter for us.

And they can find pretty much any language? Yes, pretty much.

And then the person comes on.

Will they just translate in one direction

or will they stay on the line and help out?

We do an assessment with the patient,

so we'd have the interpreter on the line

and they would translate the questions for us, into Chinese, in this case.

OK. What happens if, say, the paramedics that work in here

need to come on and give information?

Will that person help with that? Yeah, they would give all the advice that we need to give them.

So what happened to the Chinese lady?

It turned out she had quite bad stomach pains

and she was taken to hospital and treated. OK.

Reassuring that no matter what language you speak,

you'll get understood if you call through. Yeah. Smashing, thank you.

Still to come on Real Rescues.

40 fire-fighters battle to save a 400-year-old pub

from a thatch fire.

We were just having a breather when we noticed smoke had started again.

And emergency hospital staff stand by to treat two men

pulled from the sea unconscious and not breathing.

All right, that'll do for a minute. Right.

At a farm in Hampshire, a cow man is fighting

to save the life of a heifer which bolted into a slurry pit

as it started to give birth.

The rescue operation has been going on for two hours.

The heifer's been dragged out of the pit

by animal rescue specialists

but now Pat Wilcox knows that to save its life,

they might have to sacrifice the calf.

It's taken us two years to get her to that stage.

If we lost her at that point,

we've not only lost between 1,600 and 1,800 quid

but we've lost all the time and effort it goes to get her there.

And, you know, she was going to be part of our future.

The heavily sedated heifer can't push the calf out,

so Pat uses a mechanical device.

With the pulling power of five men,

it takes all of his experience to use it safely.

We're checking all the time that we're not pulling too tight

but at the same time, we're trying to do everything as quickly as we can

because we've got a heifer that's flat out on the floor

that really needs to be in a box on some straw

and being looked after properly.

The rescue is now all about saving the heifer.

No-one believes a half-born calf can survive this ordeal.

They really want to get this calf out of this cow really quickly.

Dead or alive, it's got to come out to enable the cow to survive.

To get the calf and win that one would have been a bonus.

We knew it was going to be a busy few days. That's still going. That's still going.

Then suddenly, something happens that takes everyone by surprise.

Come on. It's alive!

Yeah, she's alive.

It looks brutal, but to get this calf to breathe on its own,

they need to dislodge any fluid in its lungs.

Got to survive now, hasn't it?

Go on.

You've never had such an audience.

It's going. Then it happens. It's going. Yeah!

It takes its first breath. Oh, excellent.

Excellent. That's a miracle. It is a miracle. Yes.

I felt emotionally relieved.

After having worked with cattle all my life,

it really did sort of pull at me a little bit.

So, yeah.

A heifer calf means it will live out its life on the farm

as part of the milking herd.

Now all attention turns to the mother.

The sedation will wear off any minute.

They need to get her somewhere familiar and comfortable.

It may be undignified but it's the safest and quickest way to move the animal.

Back in the barn, the heifer is given an antidote to counter the effects of the sedative.

Just because she's dangerous? Yeah, oh, yeah.

15 minutes later and the new mother is back on its feet.

The fire-fighters on scene were really quite emotional at that stage.

There were one or two there with the odd tear in their eye

and I thought, "Yeah, we've pulled this one off by sheer luck."

They're fantastic guys. They've got the kit, they've got everything

that was needed to perform the rescue

and we couldn't have done it without them.

And when it comes to naming the newborn,

inspiration came from the fire-fighter in charge of the operation - Anton.

inspiration came from the fire-fighter in charge of the operation - Anton.

Initially they were going to call it Antoinette,

which I thought was hysterical,

but I understand they're probably going to call it Lucky,

and quite rightly.

Later, Lucky and mum continue to amaze their rescuers.

We're used to dramas on the farm

and we try and handle it in as calm a way as we can.

This area of the room is where 111 calls are answered.

They recently had a call from a mother whose baby was coughing.

It wasn't serious, which is why she dialled 111,

but she was worried about the child.

After a little while on the phone, though, that child then started to choke,

at which point a clinician is needed to explain how best to deal with chocking.

I haven't seen before how to deal with that,

so Mark's come along with the mannequin of the baby to explain.

When you get involved in a conversation like that

and the child is choking, how can you clear the airways of the baby?

OK, as long as the baby is fighting for breath, is still breathing,

the easiest is the way we do it. This is the way we tell everyone to do it.

Pop the baby on your forearm like this, supporting the head with your hand

to make sure it's nice and safe - you don't want to drop it.

And then you give five sharp back slaps with the hard part of your hand

and it's as hard as this.

FIRM THUDDING

Now, if that clears it, fine. If not, turn the baby over...

I'm surprised how firm that was, actually.

That really was quite... Yeah, it's got to be firm to clear the blockage

because we need to clear the blockage - it's an emergency situation now.

We want the airway clear. The baby won't cope without it at all.

Turn the baby on the back if it's still struggling for breath

and using two fingers, between the nipples, you press down five sharp times again.

And you continue that routine until the blockage has come out

or until an ambulance crew turns up or help turns up.

Now, obviously, although the mother dialled 111,

this has obviously become very serious.

As soon as the word choking is used...

Yeah, a life-threatening situation. The ambulance is dispatched and you are brought in as a clinician.

At this point, the mum said she thought the baby was turning blue.

That's a different kettle of fish again, isn't it? Absolutely.

We would give her advice on how to do CPR,

which is basically chest compressions.

And that's different for a baby than it is for an adult? Yeah.

The problem with doing CPR on babies is there's a lot of soft tissues.

You've got to be careful about giving soft tissue injuries around the kidneys and stomach,

so, yeah, it's a different procedure.

We'll demonstrate this but bear in mind this is something that must only be used

if you're given instruction by an expert on what to do. Absolutely.

It's not something you should attempt on your own.

But to get an idea... This is what we'd ask people to do

that have no experience and have not been trained in any way. OK.

So what we're going to do, lie baby on a hard surface.

You need to pop a little towel or a tea towel between the shoulder blades

because what you need is that completely level along there

because the baby's physiological build is different than an adult.

And then again, between the nipples,

you do about 100 to 120 compressions a minute.

So one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four

and one and two and three and four.

And you keep doing that until the ambulance crew turns up.

It's very fast. It's got to be fast.

What we're trying to do now is to get all the blood perfusion round to parts of the body,

and most important is the brain.

And babies' hearts do seem to beat very fast - 100 to 120 beats per minute.

It's 100 to 120 a minute

and you'd keep doing that until assistance turns up.

OK, so there you go.

If the baby's choking, we've given you an idea of how to clear that choking

but you always dial 999 and a clinician like Mark or someone like Mark will be here

to talk you through it.

This isn't something that you should just go for yourself.

You need medical advice but hopefully that might be of some use in the future.

Mark, thank you very much. Thank you.

A major rescue operation is underway at West Wittering beach in Sussex.

Two men have been dragged from the sea, moments from drowning.

The coastguard helicopter is preparing an emergency airlift to hospital.

Both men are in a critical condition.

They each need a paramedic to travel with them.

A third casualty has now been found.

He's not in cardiac arrest but is on his way to hospital by ambulance.

Now the beach is clear, the helicopter comes in to land.

Alf wastes no time as he heads off to get the stretcher for the first casualty.

But the man is still vomiting.

It's too unsafe for him to travel on his back.

They work quickly to get him onto the stretcher.

They're keeping him in the recovery position.

Ready?

The first casualty, the second to be pulled out of the water,

is loaded onto the helicopter.

The second follows shortly after.

There is little room to look after these two very sick patients.

They're both connected to life support equipment.

During the transit, I was looking after the second casualty,

who wasn't very well.

He was breathing very shallowly

and at times I had to assist the breathing

using an apparatus called a bag and mask.

The second casualty was being looked after by the ambulance paramedic.

Again, in very similar condition.

The two men need to be continually monitored throughout the five-minute flight to hospital.

It's demanding work, especially for paramedic Nicola,

who's working in an unfamiliar environment.

The ambulance paramedic did a fantastic job

because, for me in the back of the aircraft, it's where I work,

it's my office, if you like.

For the ambulance paramedic to do such a fantastic job

in the back of the aircraft was tremendous

and I'd say well done to her.

The emergency department at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth

are ready and waiting as the helicopter touches down.

The hospital staff will take both casualties straight into resus.

But one man's had to come off his board

and getting him out isn't straightforward.

Can we get these things out the way?

But Nicola and Alf quickly manoeuvre him back onto the board

and out of the helicopter.

Alf deals with his patient and both men are wheeled to resus.

But Alf's patient is deteriorating.

After landing on the helipad at QA Hospital,

my casualty required his airway supporting whilst en route down to the A department.

Alf continues to monitor his airways until handing over to staff

in resus.

The man is now going to get the best possible care

but his chances of survival are still in the balance.

Later, more details of the men's condition.

It's mid afternoon. A 999 call comes through to the control room

at Cheshire fire and rescue.

Barmaid Ann has raised the alarm.

It's a bank holiday Monday and the pub is packed.

While Ann is on the phone to the emergency services,

landlady Laura is trying to get through.

It was a bank holiday Monday, April Fool's Day,

and I'd called here on the landline to see how busy they were,

to see if they needed me back straightaway.

Ann Yates, who was on the bar for me, said,

"You need to come back, the pub's on fire."

Every year on April Fool's Day

somebody tells you that your thatched building is on fire.

So my first initial thought was, because I was two minutes away from here,

is to get back here and shout at whoever's made it up.

Laura is heading to the pub while another 999 call comes in.

This fire is for real.

'Thanks. Bye-bye.'

A total of 40 fire-fighters from seven stations are needed.

As one team pour water onto the fire around the chimney stack,

another team make a firebreak in the thatch.

It was a well-developed fire

and there were quite a lot of crews in attendance already

and there was members of the public stood nearby.

The next job is removing all the burning and smouldering thatch.

Thatch is obviously designed to repel water because it's part of a roof.

The only way to stop the fire spreading is

to remove all the thatch.

The only way to get it off the roof

is to physically have people working off ladders,

actually dragging it off with implements we call stack jacks,

their bare hands, axes,

otherwise the fire will spread either through it or underneath it

and whilst you're still removing it,

the fire will be starting to burn past you

and on parts of the roof that aren't affected.

At seven in the evening, after three hours of hard work,

the fire-fighters are confident they've put it out.

Three hours into the incident,

there was no smoke showing, there was no flames.

We'd taken most of the thatch off half the building

and we were having a breather

when we noticed smoke had started again at the hip joint of the other part of the roof,

so we scrambled to make sure that was out.

It just shows you the nature of thatch fires.

You can never be completely sure they're out

until you've absolutely uncovered everything.

Crews stayed on, dampening down the thatch,

supported throughout by the local community.

They were amazing. The farmers were here until 1am,

moving with a loader all the thatch that was on the road.

There were people from the church bringing cakes and soup for the fire brigade.

People that live in the village were coming to help that night.

The local community police officer finished his shift,

came back with his wife to help.

It was just amazing.

With most of the rescue efforts focused on fighting the fire,

a specialist salvage team helped Laura get ancient valuables out of the pub.

This building's almost 400 years old

and there's things that will never be replaced if they're removed or burnt.

So they were amazing and they got out as many as they could.

They were taking pictures off the walls.

We was conscious from a very early stage

that the nature and the age of the pub were very important.

It's also an important focal point to the local community

and sometimes during an incident,

you have to look past actually resolving the incident

because the first actions are to save life and protect property.

But you've also got to consider the impact of any fire on the community.

Half a Guinness? Right.

It means a lot to a lot of people,

so it's not just me and my husband and family and staff

that were upset from the fire - it's everybody else.

They've had their weddings, their christenings,

everything here, over 40, 50, 60 years.

It took four months to restore this 400-year-old building

to its former glory.

The fire was thought to have been caused

by embers from the ancient fireplaces.

They've had to be replaced

but their character has been preserved.

It's a grade two star listed building,

so it needed to be perfect, as perfect as it was,

so it needed not to be apparent that there'd been a problem inside.

It had to look as it did before.

6.30 in the morning.

Jade Foley, now a fully qualified paramedic, is on duty with Lindsey Thompson.

They're off to the first call of the day.

A 93-year-old man has been suffering all night with chest pains.

When the crew arrive, Leonard is not complaining.

And you've got no pain any more, Len? Not at the moment.

It's er... No. It's completely gone.

It's quite... It was more like a scorching pain than anything else.

Yeah? Quite uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable, yeah.

And during the night, I used the puffer, I suppose, four times at least. OK.

Which I hadn't used for months. Yeah.

He's been using a prescription spray and the pain is easing.

Did you take any pain relief last night or just the spray?

The puffer... Yeah. ..and er... Yeah.

Erm... paracetamol. OK.

The GTN spray works by dilating the arteries,

making it easier for the heart to work.

Was it just one you took or two? Two. Good. OK.

Even though the pain's gone now,

Leonard could still be having a heart attack.

It's impossible to tell without an ECG.

Couple of bumps, Len.

They need to get Leonard to hospital as quickly as possible.

Daughter Barbara is going with him for support.

Once Leonard's inside the ambulance, they can check out his vital signs.

All right if we put some sticky dots on your chest, Len?

You what, my dear? To have a look at your heart. Yeah, OK.

The ECG immediately shows up irregularities in his heart.

The chest pain could have been angina,

a narrowing of the vessels around the heart.

You can't just assume that he'll be OK, can you?

No, no. It's always better to have it checked out.

Once in hospital, they'll do blood tests,

as well as more ECGs to get to the bottom of what's happening to Leonard's heart.

Jade and Lindsey can get back on the road

and by chance, their next shout is to a 93-year-old with chest pains.

The call's come from a holiday park on Hayling Island,

where William is having a week by the sea.

It's William, is it? It is, yes. Right, William.

Tell us a bit about what's been happening.

It's the pain in his chest that's causing concern.

Well, the pain when I'm trying to get things up.

I get a pain right in here, where my heart is.

Right, how long has this been going on for?

It's only about a week, I think, yeah. Only?!

William's playing it down

but they have to take all chest pains seriously.

Point to where the pain goes. Well, it's there now. In here.

Not much, though. I try to be macho.

William's got a history of high blood pressure,

another cause for concern,

but he's reluctant to disrupt his holiday.

I don't want to go into hospital on my holiday.

Are you diabetic? No, I'm not. I'm very lucky, there.

Bill's away with his mate Fred.

They're related through their children's marriage.

We're father-in-laws to each other's... Father-in-laws, yeah, so...

Although he's never had any problems with his heart before,

they need to do an ECG in the ambulance

and make sure there's nothing sinister going on.

Think you're up to walking out there?

Oh, yes. Or shall we get you a chair?

No, no, I can walk. It's fine. We'll get you a chair.

They're not taking any chances.

So you live by the Dartford Tunnel? Yeah, about four miles away.

So you haven't got that pain at the moment? No.

Nothing. Everything's marvellous.

William's pain keeps coming and going.

He had an ECG about three months ago.

So they didn't find anything the last time they did one of these?

Bill, have you ever been told that you have an irregular heart rate?

No.

The ECG confirms that William needs a more thorough examination.

Bill, I know you're not going to like what I'm going to say.

No, go on and say it. I don't mind. I'm past worrying about anything.

Because you've got a bit of an irregular heart rate

showing on there,

and you've got no heart problems, no history of heart problems at all. No, I haven't.

So obviously, we don't know that that's normal for you.

It might well be but if you haven't been told that,

and we don't know, we need to get it checked out, really.

So it's going to be a little trip up to the hospital to get them to have a look at you.

Today? Mm, yeah.

It's the last thing he wants to hear.

Fred's going to keep him company. Anything for a ride.

And with any luck, he'll soon be out of hospital

to enjoy the rest of his holiday.

The two men who were airlifted to hospital

after they were rescued from the sea at West Wittering

have both made a good recovery.

One of the men was discharged the same day

but the second man was in intensive care for just under a week.

He didn't regain consciousness until four days after the accident.

The third man who was taken to hospital by ambulance

suffered no ill effects and was allowed home the same day.

The driver who had to be cut out of her car

after a crash on the M27 motorway

suffered whiplash and serious internal bruising.

She was off work for more than a week.

Paramedic Jade Foley was on her way to work

when she came across the accident.

Still a student at the time, this was something of a first for Jade.

It was the first time I'd ever been at an accident like that by myself

without anyone standing behind me,

telling me that I was doing something right or something wrong.

That was the first time that I was treating somebody

for a car crash without having anybody else clinical...

I was the clinical person on scene.

I was the one who was making decisions.

And Jade's two older patients are both at home and doing well.

Len's feeling much better

and although Bill's undergoing tests to find out what's wrong,

he simply puts it down to old age.

Four weeks on, and this heifer calf and its mother are showing

no ill effects after their dramatic rescue.

In fact, they're barely recognisable.

The unborn and its mother were saved from drowning in six feet of slurry.

No-one was expecting the calf to live.

Since then, both animals have made a full recovery.

Once the calf was born and we'd put her in a box,

we made sure they paired up,

made sure that the calf got its colostrum

and 24 hours later, she was coming through the parlour and milking as normal

with no ill effects.

We're used to dramas on the farm

and we try and handle it in as calm a way as we can.

Like her mother, the heifer calf, Lucky, will live out her life on the farm.

I hope you found the rescue of the cow and her calf moo-ving.

That's it for today's Real Rescues. See you next time.

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