Episode 4 Real Rescues

Today, a 39-year-old suffers a heart attack on a golf course.

His life is saved thanks to his mates and Vinnie Jones.

A lifeboat crew trek across the marshes as a kite surfer is seriously hurt.

His kite is filled with air, wrenching and twisting his leg.

Hello and welcome to Real Rescues.

We're in the main ambulance control room near Southampton, which covers four counties.

The emergency work starts right here. This is where 999 calls come

and these people get the right help to the patient.

First, a tough rescue on land for an RNLI lifeboat.

We're about to see some of the worst moments in the life of kite surfer Alex.

He's fallen 15 feet into marshland.

Stuck up to the knee in mud, his kite fills with air. His leg is being pulled and twisted.

This is the footage the lifeboat crew filmed as they sped to his rescue.

It's 7pm, late summer, and four volunteers of the Lymington Relief Lifeboat are heading out

to the emergency in the Solent. Kite surfer Alex is stranded on the marshes.

Within five minutes, they get their first sighting of his kite.

With the tide ebbing, getting across mud flats will be a challenge.

With a serious leg injury, kite surfer Alex will be in considerable discomfort.

The crew carry oxygen to help him cope with the shock and trauma.

Simon Nuding and Jamie Lever are going to head for the casualty,

while the two other volunteers look for another site closer to the injured man.

The lifeboat crew know this area well.

The tide is on the way out. These look like shallow inlets of water, but Simon knows what to expect

and warns his crewmate.

The assault course continues.

Finally, they reach the casualty.

Alex Newton is not going anywhere. Keeping him company is brother Edward.

Simon can see immediately that he's suffered at least one break at the bottom of his leg.

The fear is that Alex has suffered an open fracture, making the risk of infection much higher.

In the meantime, they need to keep Alex as warm as possible.

Simon works as quickly as he can, cutting away the wetsuit,

but the injury is making Alex's leg unstable as well as very painful.

There is some good news - the skin's not broken.

Now they need to put the leg in a splint. This is going to hurt.

They're preparing to put Alex on the stretcher.

He can then be carried to the roadside and transported by ambulance or possibly by water.

First, though, Alex must endure more agony.

ALEX CRIES OUT

CRIES OF AGONY

As the crew work on, an update comes through the radio.

By luck, the coastguard rescue helicopter is airborne and in the area on a training mission.

An airlift would be far less painful.

Pain relief is on the way to Alex. We'll be back with that rescue later.

We're about to hear an extremely dramatic 999 call.

A golfer has collapsed on the course. He's only 39 and he's not breathing.

What happens next is thanks to three extraordinary friends, an ambulance call taker and a Hollywood star.

This is the call.

They'd been doing CPR now for four minutes, but as soon as the three friends get Alan breathing,

he stops again. But they are not giving up.

As you heard from that call, there was amazing teamwork. They did it.

Alan was airlifted to hospital and in intensive care for 24 hours.

It was three days before he was out of danger. And here he is. Alan, hi.

-Hi.

-I saw your goosebumps go up.

And here is your life-saving team.

Do you want to do the introductions? Tell me what they did.

Well, this is Brian Henderson. He did the phone call to the 999.

That's Michael Rennie, my brother-in-law.

He did the clearing the air ways.

And that's Paul Pinkney, who did the CPR.

And this is Karen, who took the 999 call.

-Quite something to listen to it again, isn't it?

-It's really...

very traumatic to listen to it.

The first time was bad and that was just as bad.

But what you did was absolutely incredible and the teamwork and determination was really striking

listening to it. What were you thinking when you were trying to keep him alive?

-Just got to keep going, basically.

-Even if we weren't sure if he was breathing.

We said on there, "He's back," but we weren't 100% sure.

So we just kept going, listening to Karen's instructions.

-And just...giving CPR.

-And very determined, the lot of you. We heard you all shouting at him.

Well, Alan's my brother-in-law and I was thinking about my sister.

-Yeah.

-It was horrible. Horrible, but a happy ending, so...

Karen, you played a massive part in this as well. How well did they do during that call?

-The effort they were putting in was just brilliant.

-Tremendous.

The fact that they kept going and listened to what I said.

In that part of the call, checking his breathing and counting breaths.

I knew by them doing that to keep going with the chest compressions

to keep him alive until the ambulance got there.

Give us a sense of how many compressions they were doing.

We worked it out at maybe between 800 to 900 compressions.

One of the striking things is that you knew how to do this because of the Vinnie Jones video,

-the Staying Alive video.

-That's correct. That's what came straight into our head.

I'd seen it the week before and it's exactly what happened to Alan.

The way Vinnie Jones did the instructions was what we all did. Brian phoned 999, like the advert.

Mikey checked his air way and I did the compressions.

And you were taken by it because it was Vinnie Jones and you're massive fans?

Well, he's a very well-known figure and someone who stick in your mind.

If somebody else had been doing the advert, it's just an advert,

but because he was doing it, it sticks in your mind. The job he did - he saved Alan's life.

It just proves it is saving lives and let's remind people at home of the video.

There are times in life when being tough comes in handy. Say some geezer collapses. What do you do?

We need a volunteer that ain't breathing.

Here's one I made earlier. First off, you call 999.

Then, no kissing. You only kiss your missus on the lips.

You push hard and fast here on the sovereign to Stayin' Alive.

# Ha ha ha ha, stayin' alive Stayin' alive

# Ha ha ha ha Stayin' alive... #

Remember, call 999. Push hard and fast to Stayin' Alive.

Hands-only CPR. It's not as hard as it looks.

-They proved it, didn't they, Alan?

-Definitely, yeah.

-And you wouldn't come here without the whole team.

-No, definitely not.

-I'm sure you've said a few thank yous and bought a few beers.

-I think they kind of deserve it!

-Did they find out what was wrong, eventually?

-No, no.

-Everything's fine.

-But you've got a defibrillator.

-Yeah. It's just an insurance policy

in case it happens again, but there's no reason for it to happen. They just can't find the reason.

I want to ask Chris in here. He's got a treat for you guys.

Karen, brilliant job. Sports reporter - who was winning at golf?

-It was me and Paul!

-I hope you paid up.

I honestly want to say what an amazing job you did,

but don't just take our word for it. Just have a look at this.

# Ha ha ha ha, stayin' alive Stayin' alive... #

Hello, Alan. This is Vinnie, here in Hollywood, doing a message for you boys back there in Scotland.

Mate, I'm glad it all worked out for you and you had three mates

who were probably watching the football around 30 cans of lager and a curry and saw my advert,

Stayin' Alive - Hard and Fast.

It's a great thing they done for you, mate. Well done.

You haven't only survived this, you've also made it more aware.

I done my part, you've done a big part for the British Heart Foundation as well.

Circumstances weren't the same, but it was probably your first bogey.

At gold, normally I hear you go round in about 112, 116.

I'd hate to see what happens when you get a par! Anyway, mate, you're more than welcome.

I'd love to give you a game of golf out here. Get your handicap down.

I'll be waiting for you with a few quid next time. All the best, mate, and...it's been emotional.

-So what do you reckon?

-Amazing!

-Are you available for a game of golf in LA?

-I'm sure we could be!

It could be arranged, yep! We like our jollies.

-A couple of caddies do you need? Sounds like a good trip.

-That sounds no' bad to me!

-Well, best of luck. Thank you for coming to see us. Glad to see you well.

-Thank you.

Next, a major emergency operation that's underway on the M27, one of the busiest south coast motorways.

A vehicle has hurtled off the carriageway. Inside is a powerful and highly-strung animal.

It's an unpredictable situation for the rescue teams.

Senior Paramedic John Ayling is only called to the most serious incidents.

Today he's heading to a crash on a motorway.

It appears there's a campervan has come off the road and gone down a verge.

At the moment, no details of casualties are known,

but we have activated our heli-med and there is a crew running to this incident.

The evening rush hour has started. There are already long tailbacks caused by this accident.

There's the vehicle. Let's pull in here.

I'll go and see the crew and find out what we've got.

But it's not a campervan at the bottom of the 40-foot embankment - it's a horse box.

Anyone injured?

-No worries. The horse is in it still, I assume?

-Yeah. He stood up.

The horse, a nine-year-old show jumper called Harvey, has survived

after his box became detached from the towing vehicle and careered down the banks at over 50mph.

The worst-case scenario would be that he'd broken a leg or his neck.

If he had broken a leg, we'd have had to have the horse put down.

The horse is calm, but at any moment it could break free, feet from one of the south's busiest motorways.

The emergency crews have called in animal rescue specialist Jim Green.

Hiya. Jim. From Animal Rescue. Right, what's the breed?

-He's German Warmblood.

-OK.

-He's quite a calm horse. He's nine.

Quite a delicate situation, obviously.

-My concern is he's in quite a tight space, he's been through a bit of a trauma...

-Yes.

It wouldn't take very much to spook him. We may want to take some of this rose out of it

just to clear his passage. I'll have a look at that ditch as well.

Claire's husband, Kevin, is inside the box doing all he can to keep Harvey calm.

The owner, what he wants to do is

-to shut the motorway, back him out, turn him and walk him up the bank.

-Yeah.

-Nice in practice.

-Lovely if that works. If it doesn't work,

we could be in a bit of trouble.

'This was a horse that was an eventing horse,

'it was called a Warmblood, which means its temperament is more highly-strung than a Shire horse.'

If something had caused that to spook, it could have gone ballistic.

Kevin's intentions are good, but Jim knows that any sudden noise outside could put the owner's life at risk.

Just stay switched on to what's going on in there

because if that thing starts going loopy, he's got no way out.

So we might have to take some action then. Keep your eye on it.

At the end of the day, the bloke is our priority and he hasn't got any run away in there at all.

That is one agitated horse.

Jim can't begin freeing Harvey until another horse box arrives.

Jim's plan is to try to back Harvey out, through the gap that's opened between the trailer and its roof,

but it's not as simple as it sounds.

'It was straddling a stream, so if it put its foot in it may cause a reaction.

'And tight behind it was a big dog rose bush.'

If it had backed onto one of those thorns, that would have caused a reaction that put people in danger.

So they need to clear a pathway behind the trailer back up to the road.

That horse can see all the way round it, so just quietly start moving stuff out of the way.

It's all about body language.

'There are very few blind spots in the horse's vision. It's designed for looking out for trouble.'

So from the horse's point of view, we needed to be as quiet and calm and relaxed as possible.

The police are on standby to close the entire section of the motorway before Harvey is moved.

There's always a risk of the horse bolting across the carriageway.

And we'll be seeing how Harvey reacts when the moment comes to lead him out.

Now I'm going to let you into a little secret because everybody here loves it when they get a call

about the arrival of a baby. I want to introduce Lucinda.

You got really lucky one day. How many babies?

-I had three.

-Three?!

-Yeah.

-In the space of what time?

-About four hours.

Really? Is that a record?

Yeah, definitely! For me.

-There's a lot of pressure on you. Most of the time, the parents will be panicking.

-Yes.

-What advice do you give them?

-Obviously, stay calm,

always don't sit on the toilet. It seems funny, but they always seem to want to.

-One main thing is don't cut the umbilical cord.

-Why is that?

It needs to be done with sterilised scissors to prevent infection.

Also, the mother and the baby could bleed out if not treated quickly.

-They usually just clamp it.

-Has anybody done that?

-Yeah. One of the ones I had, the caller did that.

I just got him to get a piece of thread and just tie it round both ends

-and kept it like that until the crew arrived.

-Dad was getting overexcited with his role.

-Yes!

-Tell me - do you get competitive?

-Oh, yes.

-Do you know how many babies you've been involved in?

-Yeah.

I always keep count. And if they're boys or girls. Anyone can tell you how many they've had.

-You've had?

-Eight.

-Is that good?

-Yeah, pretty good. I think so.

-Brilliant. I'll go and find out if anyone's delivered more. See you later.

-See you.

Still to come: a city flat is set alight by an arsonist.

I don't know what's in there. Have a good scout around.

And on the motorway it's pitch black - time to rescue Harvey.

Time's moving on now. The horse is getting cold. I'm getting cold!

Lots of calls come in here about things people have eaten that make them feel a little ill.

-Claire has a pretty strange one. Are you OK to talk?

-Yes.

-A lady called about what exactly?

-I received a call from a lady

-who stated that she had eaten a flower.

-A flower?

-Some sort.

-OK.

And she was talking to me fine, answering my questions, and then I could hear her being very ill.

-Suddenly, it was very quiet.

-Which is worrying.

-Very worrying.

-She was being ill...

-And didn't come back to the phone.

So I stayed on the line in case she came back.

I stayed until the ambulance crew arrived and I could hear them attending to the patient.

-So you can eat some flowers, but not that particular one. And we don't know what it was.

-No.

-What about children? They can be terrible.

-We get lots of calls from children wandering around.

-They'll go into the cleaning product cupboard...

-The dangerous one.

-Definitely the dangerous one.

And they'll drink bleach or something like that

-and their parents have just discovered them.

-The thing is to know what they have drunk.

-Yeah.

It might even have some information on the back with some advice.

-Good advice, Claire. Thank you.

-Thanks.

Earlier we saw how two lifeboat crew had to trek across marshes to reach a badly-injured kite surfer.

The RNLI volunteers can't give pain relief, but they stabilised Alex

as they await the coastguard rescue helicopter.

In the mud flats of the Solent, a rescue operation is underway.

Lifeboat volunteers Jamie and Simon were the first to get to injured kite surfer Alex,

but now he's going to be airlifted out.

They're going to use the kite to protect him from the wind and the downdraught from the helicopter.

Jamie and Simon have already put Alex's injured leg in a splint.

His brother Edward is with him and witnessed the accident.

Coastguard rescue helicopter 106 was on a training flight nearby.

As well as getting a quick airlift to hospital, Alex also receives gas and air for his pain

from winchman Dougie Ayles.

But Alex has to endure having his leg moved again.

He must be protected by a stronger vacuum splint. He'll need all the pain relief he can get.

ALEX CRIES IN PAIN

The indications are that Alex has broken more than one bone. They need to keep his foot properly aligned,

which means more movement.

The worst is over. The helicopter returns to lift winchman Dougie and Alex on board.

He'll be taken to Southampton General Hospital.

Meanwhile, the lifeboat crew help brother Edward take all the equipment back to Lymington.

As feared, the injuries to Al's leg were so severe, six months on he's still not fully recovered.

After x-rays at hospital, doctors discovered Alex had suffered a total of three breaks in his leg.

I had a clean break through my tibia

and a spiral fracture up my tibia

and a clean break on my fibula.

It took months to regain full movement and rotation in his ankle.

Six months on, he's still not able to play sport.

I go through mixed feelings. I want to go again, but I don't want to break anything again, obviously.

Despite the accident, he has sympathy for his brother Edward, who is still waiting for a lesson.

My poor brother waded across the marshes to rescue me.

He didn't even get kite surfing, but thank God he was there or it would have been a cold night

or a long crawl home.

Al is very grateful for the work of the volunteer lifeboat crew

and Simon and Kevin are here. Nice to see you.

The thing that strikes me is that you are volunteers.

Most people I speak to, "I do it day in, day out." What do you do, ordinary job, every day?

Well, I run a charter business, so I'm on the water quite a bit.

So lifeboating is almost second nature, if that makes sense.

-Kevin?

-A builder.

-Right.

I build houses.

Are you on duty all the time or do you have shifts?

We're on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

So we're on call all the time, but we've got a 22 crew who are on call,

-so it gets shared about quite a bit.

-How do you get to know?

-We all carry pagers.

-They go off and we run, basically.

-Drop what you're doing, run to the car and you're off.

-That's it.

So we're aiming to get the boat on the water within about 8 minutes of being called on our pagers.

-So it's a pretty quick process.

-Now this was an unusual case.

He was in a pretty bad way and a lot of pain.

-You couldn't give him painkillers.

-No, we only carry oxygen,

so we can't restrict his pain at all. We work with what we've got

and fortunately that's when the helicopter had that with them.

Your big fear is that not only is he marooned, he's cold and in shock.

You used a bit of ingenuity.

Yeah, we used his kite as a wind break

and that came up, as it always does on a lifeboat crew, as an idea

-and it just sort of progresses from there.

-Brilliant.

What I always think is the helicopter takes away the kite surfer and you go back to work!

-Yeah.

-Pretty much.

-Well, you do a great job. Nice to meet you.

It's not just the heat of a fire and the super-heated gases that pose a threat to fire-fighters.

They usually have no idea what's inside a burning building.

In this case, it's dangers from needles and illegal drug gear.

SIREN WAILS

8.30pm and Green Watch from St Mary's Fire Station are on their way.

Is that someone there by the crossing?

Somebody has made an emergency call to say they saw flames coming from the window of a ground floor flat.

Lovely. Thank you.

Jay, it's five four papa one and five four papa four in attendance. Over.

Go by it, way by it.

That looks like it's cooking up, boys.

A window frame is on fire.

The question is whether the fire is just on the outside or coming from the flat inside.

Right, we'll get a covering jet.

Watch Manager Shaun takes a closer look.

He feels the adjacent windows to see if they're warm, a sign of fire indoors.

-Boys, you're on it.

-Inside or just outside?

-Inside as well.

It's inside as well, they reckon.

It's going inside, Steve.

It's access, whether it's round the side or this.

Crew manager Steve finds the door to the communal hallway open.

I'll get a crew to knock the window out. You cover them with the jet as they do it.

All right. If you want to start up then...

Fire-fighters Adam and Rich quickly don breathing apparatus. They're going in.

Obviously, we don't know what's in there. Nothing is isolated

If you can isolate it on the way in, great, all right?

Whether it's persons...

Have a good scout around.

Are you both on...? What are you on, Channel Six?

The word "persons" means that Shaun wants the pair to search for anybody unreported

that might still be inside and knocked out by the fumes.

They prepare to break the window which will help

to ventilate the heat and smoke in a direction away from the fire-fighters entering the building.

In the meantime, Steve has been let into a neighbour's flat to check for fire spread.

Yeah, go ahead. Over.

Steve, for your information, we've just vented the fire. We've broken the window.

Give it a little drink, just on the spray, not a jet. You've got BA crews. Just dribble it in there.

They have to be careful not to spray water too forcefully into a property that's alight

while fire-fighters are inside.

In the high temperatures a fire creates, water can instantly heat up to boiling point

and severely scald anybody in its path.

In breathing apparatus, Adam and Rich have negotiated the smoke-filled flat

and made it into the room on fire.

There's the BA crew in there now.

They quickly put out the small blaze that they find.

After searching the flat, they found nobody is inside.

The next step is to use a powerful fan to clear the remaining smoke out of the property.

While they seal off the scene, the increased visibility enables the fire crews

to see exactly what's been going on in the premises and it's not pretty.

There's, um...drug paraphernalia in there,

so I'm just going in with my gloves.

The fire has started in a bedroom littered with syringes and other signs of heavy drug use.

The lady who put the call in was parked over there.

She saw a fully developed fire in front of the window.

I'll try and find out if it's occupied and get a TFS officer down, but...

We need to get the police.

We need to establish who owns the building and if it's occupied.

While they were in the flat, Adam and Rich had to break down a locked door with a battering ram

to check that nobody was behind it.

It seems like sheltered accommodation.

Each room's got its own individual lock,

so we got to one of the rooms using the thermal imaging camera and saw that was the affected room.

We opened the door and knocked it down. Got there just in time, really

Another couple more minutes and the room would have been a lot more developed

and a bit more dangerous for any occupants in there.

At the moment, we're just trying to work out whether it was done from outside the building or inside,

but we'll find out soon when we get some light in there.

One of the residents from another room in the property has come back to find this chaotic scene.

-You live in the first room there?

-Yeah.

But he has no idea of the whereabouts of the occupant who lives in the burnt room.

As there's a suspicion of arson, the investigation by the Technical Fire Safety Teams

and the police will continue into the night.

You've probably seen lots of these people answering the phones,

but they don't just say, "Yeah, we'll send an ambulance."

The investigation and the hard work starts right here.

Marie is going to explain exactly what goes on. You're surrounded by a bank of screens here.

-We've got a test call here. You know where he or she is.

-Yeah.

You've sent an ambulance. What do you do next?

We have to get the location of the patient, confirm and accept i

and make sure it's correct, confirm and accept the telephone number

just in case we get cut off. The nex important step is to reassure the caller or the patient

that help has been arranged.

We find out exactly what's happened to them.

We then have to go through protocol questions.

Yeah, cos you're helping the ambulance crew as they're on their way.

You can see here you've got a series of questions.

We're pretending that your patient or your caller has got some serious burns.

-Yeah.

-And you've got some questions and places here.

What happens? They answer all your questions and what do you do next?

First, we have to establish whether the patient is conscious and breathing, OK?

Say, like, they've got a burn. We would then use the burns card, go down the questions

and establish where they're burnt, how much of the body is burnt

and give life-saving instructions until the ambulance arrives.

Yes, you've got something here. "Are they having difficulty breathing or having difficulty speaking to you?"

And that information will be very useful for the crew as they make their way to see the patient.

-It's getting the relevant informatio to the ambulance crew, so they know what they're going to.

-Brilliant.

If you have a power cut, everything goes down, what do you do?

Luckily, it doesn't affect us in here. We have cards to go to. We just literally go to paper.

-The old pen and paper.

-Yeah, the good old-fashioned way.

-I'm going to go to a fall here and you start asking the questions, "Is he completely alert?"

-That's right.

"Has he got dizziness?" Then we go down, "Is there any serious breathing

"or bleeding problems there?"

-So you start jotting this all down.

-We do.

We get all this written down for the dispatchers.

We have a person available to hand the paperwork over to the dispatchers,

so they can let the crew know what they're going to straight away.

-Marie, fantastic. The responsibility would be far too much for me. I'll leave you to your work.

-Thank you.

A motorway crash has left a horse in its box at the bottom of an embankment.

The owner is determined to stay in the wreckage alongside the animal.

The rescue team are preparing to move the horse,

but any sudden sound could put its owner and motorists in danger.

Yeah, as soon as they radio to escort him, we'll go for it. That'll be perfect. Thanks, mate.

As darkness falls, the rescue is just minutes away.

The lorry is nearly here.

It's at Junction 11. We're getting a police escort to get it down here.

We'll then shut the traffic and go for it.

Time is moving on and the horse and owner are getting cold. I'm getting cold!

This is such an unpredictable situation,

Jim has called in another animal rescue specialist, Anton Phillips, who is an experienced horseman.

He's going to take the head when we turn the animal round.

I'm going to go down to the bottom of the bank there and take away some of the dog rose and the oak around i

to stop it fouling as it comes out, so hopefully, it'll come out nice and cleanly.

In the gloom, they're adapting a hook normally used to pull down burning ceilings

to pass a head collar inside the trailer.

We're using a ceiling hook. The horse is a little bit skittish when we're round the back of it,

so we're making sure we do things out of sight and not something that's going to surprise it.

Jim keeps all his men updated.

Right...

They're going to escort the box in t the coned area, then we'll shut the road and we'll re-position the box.

We'll probably put it in the middle of the carriageway, so you can go up there and they'll stop everything

The police close down all three lanes of the carriageway and escort the horse box into place.

It all has to be done as quietly as possible,

so as not to startle Harvey.

They even turn off all the blue lights.

Good boy... Good boy.

They've reached a critical point in this rescue.

They need to ease Harvey back through the gap where the trailer roof has broken away from the walls,

but it's a tight squeeze.

I'm just getting a bloke round to hold the roof while he does it,

then hopefully the roof will go back three or four inches.

If Harvey kicks off as they move him,

a blow from his hooves could easily kill the very people who are trying to save him.

When he comes up, we don't know what state he'll be in. Anton might need some room to lunge him round,

-so these boys want to be up there with some protection, so they can hide.

-OK.

-Just in case.

The fewer men up close to Harvey, the better.

That looks like that's the last of that traffic.

The motorway is now at a standstill.

It's eerily quiet.

It's a very strange place to be. It's just really weird that there's no sound,

there's no rumbling of the lorries, but it's important that's what we have

because that's what we need to move an animal that perhaps has never bee on a motorway or a road before.

-Good boy.

-Everything is in place to move the horse.

I just can't think what was going through his brain.

I knew what was going through mine and it was just horrific.

I thought, "Is this really happening?

"Is he going to come straight up?"

Harvey's natural instincts will be telling him to make a bolt for it.

Good boy. Other way, other way, Harv. Other way.

-Other way.

-Go on.

-Good boy.

-There's a good lad. Go on.

Well done, fellas.

Against all the odds, he's finally out.

Stage one of the rescue is complete.

Everyone is hoping he'll go quietly into his new transport.

Some animals, if they've been in a collision...

This one had rolled down the embankment. It was quite a frightening experience.

Some of them, when they've been in a transporter and that's happened they're very reluctant to load.

This one was no real problem at all.

-That's a result.

-Phew!

-God, it's cold, mate!

-It is.

I was extremely proud of Harvey.

I remember a policewoman asking how much sedation he had had

and I said he'd had none, it's just a trust.

He's come out with a few scrapes,

but trusting enough that he'll just go straight into a lorry, knowing that he'll be going home.

I'm just going to quietly open the eastbound now, so if we can get these doors shut, that will help.

They've averted a motorway accident.

As a result of meticulous planning, the actual transfer has taken less than five minutes.

It's been resolved safely.

They're on their way back to West Sussex now.

They'll get him looked at by the vet when they get back.

I think it was Harvey's kind temperament and calmness

and the trust in the people that deal with him on a daily basis

that saved him from doing more damage to himself or damaging himself any further

and causing perhaps a more horrific accident

if he had panicked and gone up on to the motorway.

Harvey's very special to us. He's always been part of the family, but even more so.

For the animal rescue team, it's been a good evening's work.

Anton and I both said that this was one of the most dangerous incidents we'd been to for quite some time

and the potential for something to go wrong was very high.

Therefore, to have the outcome that we did was very pleasing.

We've had some great results - Harvey and what about those golfers?

They're definitely going to go and see Vinnie in LA.

There'll be a few boys turning up with suitcases. Watch out, Vinnie!

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

-Bye-bye.

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