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If you're critically ill or injured in a place like this, | 0:00:03 | 0:00:07 | |
there's only one thing that can save you and that's speed. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:12 | |
It doesn't matter where you are. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
This helicopter with its highly-trained team will fly to your rescue at 4.5 miles a minute. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:22 | |
These are Yorkshire's Helicopter Heroes. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
When the people of Britain's biggest county dial 999, | 0:00:46 | 0:00:50 | |
there's a good chance help will come from the skies. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance is ready to scramble 365 days a year | 0:00:53 | 0:00:58 | |
and each one brings a new life or death emergency. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Today on Helicopter Heroes: | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
-A man is drowning and the helimed team help the local lifeboat. -There's a man gone in. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:11 | |
-A pilot's in trouble: -Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! | 0:01:11 | 0:01:16 | |
Can helimed 98 save him? | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
Total engine failure. About to crash. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
There's a whip round at the rugby to pay for a player's rescue. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
It doesn't hit home till you need it. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
And this won't hurt a bit. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
-He said, "Have you got burning tackle?" -The team improvise to rescue a farmer's wife. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:39 | |
Yorkshire's scenery helps drive one of its biggest industries - tourism. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
Everywhere you look, there's a view that could sell a postcard. Nowhere is more beautiful than Whitby. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:56 | |
The whole town is built around its historic harbour. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
Captain Cook lived here and this is where many people still earn their living. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:08 | |
No wonder the local lifeboat is never short of volunteers, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
but tonight there's a real emergency for the inshore lifeboat crew. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
A man's fallen 20 foot from the harbour wall. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
The accident's happened within sight of the lifeboat house, | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
but 50 miles away at Leeds Bradford Airport, helimed 99 is being scrambled to join the rescue. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:32 | |
Clear to lift. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Hundreds of holidaymakers are watching the rescue. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
Paramedic Lee Davison knows hot weather and cool water is often a dangerous combination there. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:47 | |
We've dispatched ourselves over to Whitby, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
just on the east coast, a nice seaside town that's very popular. At this time of year, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:58 | |
people feel it's quite hot, but the water's cold. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
Patients can suffer with hypothermia. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
Whitby's lifeboat house is among the busiest in the UK. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:11 | |
They've been saving lives at sea for 200 years and they know this fall can cause serious injury. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:19 | |
It'll be about 18 minutes to the scene. Do you have any further update? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
'Yeah. The patient's been recovered from the water. He's currently being checked out. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:33 | |
'I don't have a patient update yet. As soon as I do, I'll update you.' | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
The helimed team know this is not a town built with helicopter landings in mind. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:43 | |
'Helimed 99, thank you. I've just had an update from the scene. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:49 | |
'Your presence is required. They've made a space for you to land on the beach by the station.' | 0:03:49 | 0:03:56 | |
It's not somewhere I've done a lot of rescues from, the beach, or recovered patients from. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:02 | |
You can end up going anywhere! | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
Whitby's mariners have kept an eye out for each other for centuries | 0:04:05 | 0:04:10 | |
and today their proud tradition of lifesaving has been upheld. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
The man's been rescued by an eyewitness who climbed down into the water | 0:04:14 | 0:04:20 | |
to keep him afloat. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Pilot Craig Redman knows beach landings are a high-risk option, | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
but in the middle of Whitby he has no choice. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:32 | |
It all depends what time of day it is. If the tide has just gone out, there's lots of moisture in the sand. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:38 | |
The problem with putting skids down is that you sink into it. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:42 | |
Most pilots refuse to shut down their engines. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
A technical failure on the sand means £3 million of chopper swamped by the incoming tide. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
But it's a risk he'll have to take. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
I can see a lifeboat. Down left, ten o'clock there. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:01 | |
But the tide is out just far enough for pilot Craig to land helimed 99 | 0:05:02 | 0:05:07 | |
right outside the lifeboat station. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
Bring it down on your left. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Yeah, you're secure there, mate. That's fine. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
Can one of you take me to where they are? | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
Attracting a crowd is part of the job for flying paramedics. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
A mixture of daytrippers and locals have come to see what's happened. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:29 | |
-Hi, hi. -This is Stuart. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
When Stuart Sloane fell 20 feet into the harbour, it was filled with fishing trawlers and sailing boats. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:39 | |
-He's gone backwards... -And he falls. -Yeah. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:45 | |
-No witnesses seen him hit the wall? -No. Witnesses seen him tumble off but nobody seen him hit the wall. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:52 | |
No one knows if he hit anything on the way down, but the bruising to his chest is a bad sign. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:58 | |
Are you all right? You OK? | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
-My chest... -I know. Is your chest hurting? Yeah, OK. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
Stuart's lucky he didn't drown. As he fell in, he was spotted by Steve Crowe, who works nearby. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:13 | |
I thought, "What on Earth happened?" | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
He's fallen in t'water. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Steve immediately went in after Stuart and kept his head above water for 10 minutes until the lifeboat. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:27 | |
-Slowly warming up? -Getting there, ish. -Warm and dry now? | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
-You can get changed? -Yeah. I just want to get rid of this. -OK. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:37 | |
Stuart may be on dry land, but he's not out of danger. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:41 | |
He's still in his wet clothes and is dangerously cold. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
If his ribs are broken, he could have a punctured lung. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
All his rescuer Steve can do is watch and hope that his efforts are not in vain. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:56 | |
Coming up: the tide's coming in and their patient needs urgent hospital treatment. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:06 | |
We'll get him to hospital ASAP. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
Pilot Steve drops in on his favourite football team. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:13 | |
I usually go by road. This is a lot quicker! | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
And a teenager copies his favourite film with painful results. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
Don't do this at home! | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
If you think the weather is changeable, spare a thought for these guys. At 150mph, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:34 | |
the helimed team experience the four seasons in one flight, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
especially when they head up into the hills. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
With radar covering most of Yorkshire, helimed pilots know they can get help from the control tower. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:54 | |
The air traffic controllers at Leeds Bradford Airport are the guardians of the local skies, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
but today an unexpected emergency makes airliners take a back seat. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:09 | |
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
Total engine failure! About to crash. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
20 miles away in the foothills of the Pennines, a pilot is in danger of crashing his microlight. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:24 | |
His engine's failed and he's going down. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Leeds Bradford Airport rang me. They've got a distress call from a microlight. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:34 | |
They expect the area where he's come down is north of Emley Moor. Police helicopter is en route. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:42 | |
Paramedic Sammy Wills knows what the pilot may be going through. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
She recently flew in the same type of plane from the same airfield. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
It's a fantastic feeling, | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
but I can't imagine the panic of having to make a distress call. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:57 | |
The pilot was passing the huge TV transmitter on Emley Moor when the emergency started. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
Since his mayday call, there's been silence. They're looking for two men and a few square metres of fabric | 0:09:03 | 0:09:09 | |
in several square miles. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
We're at Emley Moor mast and we've not got a visual. If you've got further details, let us know. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:21 | |
-The local police chopper has beaten them to it. -We're got police aircraft and the microlight. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:28 | |
Good morning to you. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Pilot Andrew Dixon is lucky to be alive. He's just pulled off a textbook emergency landing | 0:09:35 | 0:09:42 | |
after losing a blade from his propeller. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
All of a sudden there was a bang and no engine. Started gliding in. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
Mayday. It wasn't until we came down we realised we'd lost the prop. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:53 | |
They gave me a hand out. The fuel system's hanging off the plane and in danger of fire. | 0:09:53 | 0:10:00 | |
The impact has left Andrew in agony. It's aggravated an old back injury. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
-You had a hard landing and felt it go. -Correct. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:09 | |
He's managed to stay within the cockpit, but he's got a chronic history of back problems. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:16 | |
-I tried standing up at one point, but... -Don't look sideways. Keep looking straight ahead. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:24 | |
Sammy and Glen know they can't take any chances. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
Andrew could have damaged his spine. They must protect his neck, too. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:33 | |
-This jacket has so many layers! -It's cold up there! -I know! I've had a go. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
-Have you? -I have. It was fantastic. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
Andrew's reason for taking up flying is unusual. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
-I had a fear of flying. -Uh-huh. This is the right way to overcome it, I'll tell you! | 0:10:46 | 0:10:53 | |
Well, I worked for the United Nations and I came down in an aircraft into a field. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:59 | |
-You did? -So a proper fear of flying. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
Yeah. I tell you what, if you can overcome it, fancy flying in our helicopter? | 0:11:01 | 0:11:07 | |
The microlight looks undamaged, but it's taken a major impact, landing on rough ground. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:14 | |
Bit of a hairy landing, but we actually did really well considering how rough this field is. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:20 | |
The team fear the impact that bent the plane's undercarriage has further damaged Andrew's back. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:27 | |
His days at the controls could be numbered. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
Coming up: pilot Andrew reaches hospital, but there's bad news. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
There's a good chance of a spinal injury. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:43 | |
In Whitby, the man who narrowly escaped drowning takes off. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:48 | |
The ribs could puncture a lung, so we keep that in mind. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
And the team rescue a trapped farmhand. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
He needs surgery straight away. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
Seeing the world from 2,000 feet doesn't half make it look small. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
That's Sheffield, home to 500,000 people and on an average day about 100 need to make a 999 call. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:12 | |
But only a lucky few get these guys coming to help. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
Despite that, there's no shortage of people down there willing to donate time or money | 0:12:16 | 0:12:21 | |
to keep the air ambulance flying. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
And today Chief Pilot Steve Cobb is doing his bit by coming in on his day off to visit his other passion - | 0:12:24 | 0:12:32 | |
Huddersfield Town Football Club. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
I usually go by road. This is a lot quicker, a lot less crowds. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:40 | |
It'd be tight landing on a match day, but we'll be OK today. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
It's the launch of an unusual fundraising venture. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:50 | |
It's the first time a football team has supported an air ambulance charity rather than have a sponsor. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:57 | |
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance are extremely proud to be here today. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
I think our various teams, and my own team at the YAA, have worked extremely hard | 0:13:02 | 0:13:08 | |
in pulling this together, this sponsorship deal, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
a partnership deal such as this today to raise our funds. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
Tonight Huddersfield are holding their own against former Premiership giants Newcastle United. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:24 | |
The salary of one of their internationals would pay for the air ambulance for a year, | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
but football is doing its bit thanks to Huddersfield Town. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
And it's not just the professionals who are doing what they can to help. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:38 | |
It's a sunny Sunday in Kippax near Leeds. Under 11s are playing Yorkshire's sport - rugby league. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:48 | |
You've got to be tough to go into these tackles. There's always a risk of injury. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:54 | |
Today, 10-year-old Adam Taylor is hit by a high tackle round his head. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:01 | |
He's on the ground and not moving. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
We've got a nine or ten-year-old young lad playing rugby. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
Apparently severe neck pain, scoring 9 out of 10. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
A woman on the scene said they'd clear the field as much as they can. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:17 | |
There are some wires across that behind the goalposts. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
And you've got them gazebos. Two to the rear of the ice cream van and one in front of it. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:28 | |
An ambulance has already arrived. The crew are checking out Adam. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
He has a neck injury and that's always a cause for concern. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:38 | |
They came down here to score and went into a rugby tackle. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
Referee gave a high tackle and he jarred his neck. To be safe, we sent for an air ambulance. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:51 | |
He suffers from asthma. No allergies that we know. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:56 | |
Everyone in the crowd is worried for Adam, but no one is more anxious than the First Aider who helped - | 0:14:57 | 0:15:04 | |
Adam's mum Kerry. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
He just got a high tackle. His head jarred back and he ended up on t'floor. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:14 | |
I'm a bit nervous, a bit shaky. I was more of a support, but we have a few First Aiders who could help. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:21 | |
If you've got a neck injury, there's potential that the spinal cord could be damaged | 0:15:22 | 0:15:28 | |
or, at worst, severed, so it's important we don't move him and aggravate any injuries. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:34 | |
Adam's starting to come round and looking forward to his flight. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
Sadly, the head restraint means he'll only see the sky and a few rotor blades on this trip. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:45 | |
-Will you get me in there? -Yeah! | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
Wow! | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
-Can you see the helicopter now? -Yeah. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
With Adam safely on his way to hospital, | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
you'd think the club's relationship with the air ambulance was over, but it's just begun. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:06 | |
Adam's coach and the organisers make the spontaneous decision to have a collection. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:12 | |
Until you actually realise what this great service is doing for Yorkshire, | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
it doesn't hit home until it comes to a place like this. We've got to do summat back. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:22 | |
It costs more than £7,000 a day to keep the helimed choppers in the air. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:28 | |
But by the time the cash has been counted, the collection has paid for Adam's short flight to hospital. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:34 | |
£300 in small change. It's a real result. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
We are absolutely pleased to have raised that much in such a short space of time. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:44 | |
It shows the generosity of the people around here. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
Coming up: the unlikely cause of a plane crash is revealed. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:54 | |
Somebody's waiting for a pigeon to come home! From the bang, I thought it was an ostrich! | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
And a farmer's wife needs urgent treatment after a bizarre accident with a rake. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
The rake's become embedded with two prongs. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
Now let's go back to Whitby, where the helimed team are helping the victim of a nasty accident | 0:17:13 | 0:17:19 | |
in the town's harbour. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
Amongst the sandcastles and seaweed, helimed 99 has landed on the beach in Whitby in North Yorkshire | 0:17:22 | 0:17:29 | |
to help a man who has fallen 20 feet off the harbour wall and into the chilly North Sea. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:36 | |
Whitby local Stuart Sloane nearly drowned after struggling in the water for over 10 minutes | 0:17:37 | 0:17:43 | |
before being rescued by Steven Crowe. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:48 | |
We went down onto the boat to see if we could get him out. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:52 | |
We chucked him a life ring and he couldn't move. He had tight hold of a rope. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:57 | |
The only thing to do was go in and get him across to the ladder and wait for the ambulance. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:05 | |
Stuart's been taken to Whitby's lifeboat station, the scene of many dramatic sea rescues | 0:18:05 | 0:18:11 | |
and where helimed 99 paramedics Lee and Kate can start treating him. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:16 | |
All right. We need to get these wet clothes off. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:22 | |
Keep going, Stuart. Put your hand on your chest there. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
-I'm in real pain. -I know you are, mate. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:31 | |
Stuart was obviously enjoying himself before he fell. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
-What's he got on down below? -A kilt. -Right. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:40 | |
Has he got his undies on? | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
But still in his wet clothes, he's in danger of becoming hypothermic. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:49 | |
That's when the body temperature falls below 35 degrees. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:54 | |
If it falls any lower, it could be life threatening. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
What I'd like to do, if possible, is lay the sleeping bag out. OK? | 0:18:57 | 0:19:02 | |
And then we'll lay it on the floor, put him onto the board, OK? | 0:19:02 | 0:19:08 | |
And then we'll put the board in and wrap him all in it. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
Lee needs to work quickly and not just to get to hospital. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
It's now half past eight in the evening and due to strict aviation rules | 0:19:16 | 0:19:22 | |
helimed 99 needs to be back at base before it gets too dark. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
But the height of Stuart's fall means Lee can take no chances and must protect his neck and spine. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:34 | |
One, two, three, lift. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
Hold on, hold on! That's it. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
-Make sure that board's underneath. -Aaah! | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
And down. Superb. That's perfect. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
'We've got this chap on a longboard,' | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
taken off his wet clothes to get him as warm as we can. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:53 | |
We've wrapped him up with a blanket and in a sleeping bag. We'll get him on the aircraft as soon as we can. | 0:19:53 | 0:20:02 | |
We need to get him to hospital ASAP. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
Living by the sea might be many people's dream, but Whitby is used to dealing with tragedy. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:10 | |
Two years ago, three people drowned when their boat capsized here. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:15 | |
And the Whitby lifeboat has nearly 50 awards for outstanding bravery. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
Good man, that's it. Just keep nice and still. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
-I've broken some ribs... -Yeah, well, you've done something. You're in a lot of pain. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:32 | |
Say to these lads down here as well. I want them all out of the way. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:36 | |
Whitby is a small town and news travels fast. Dozens of people have come out | 0:20:36 | 0:20:43 | |
to see helimed 99 take off from its seaside helipad. It can't come a moment too soon for pilot Craig. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:51 | |
-Guys, am I clear to start? -Yeah. -We need to get a move on. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
All right, Stuart. It will be very noisy while we take you to hospital. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
Stuart lives in Whitby and loves its remote and tranquil setting, | 0:21:04 | 0:21:08 | |
but the nearest major casualty department is at the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough | 0:21:08 | 0:21:14 | |
and that's over 25 miles away. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
He's complaining of a neck and right-sided chest injury or pain. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
He's got significant bruising on the right side of his chest. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:24 | |
When you've got significant trauma like that to the chest, it can impair the breathing. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:30 | |
He's maybe fractured a few ribs on his right side which are giving him the discomfort, | 0:21:30 | 0:21:35 | |
but the ribs could puncture the lung so we've got to keep that in mind. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
Coming up, their patient reaches hospital, but he's not out of trouble yet. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:49 | |
He still was very cold, despite the blankets that we put on him. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
And a teenage farm worker is run over by a five-tonne tractor. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
As he's jumped out, another tractor has rolled over him. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
The Helimed crew are all dedicated professionals. | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
They never stop training and it's rare for a month to go by without a new drug or technique introduced | 0:22:10 | 0:22:17 | |
to help them do their job better. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:19 | |
But the hazards of flying rarely change | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
and paramedics Sammy and Glen are about to come face to face with one of them - a bird strike. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:30 | |
-This horrible pheasant... -BLEEP | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
Yeah, that went through us. That hit the disc. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
This pheasant hit the chopper's rotors. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
There's no visible damage, but the pheasant is beyond even their life-saving skills. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
But accidents like this can and do down aircraft. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:49 | |
Ask pilot Andrew Dixon. Sammy and Glen have just been finding out what could have happened to them. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:55 | |
A passing pigeon hit the blade of his microlight plane's propeller, leading to a painful forced landing. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:01 | |
He's had a bird strike. They've had a semi-hard landing. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
Because of his previous back injury, he's got back pain, so we're treating him as worst case scenario. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:11 | |
Ready, steady, lift. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
Excellent. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:16 | |
Andrew is on his way to hospital, but his previous back injury wasn't just any old slipped disc. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:23 | |
And start easing him in. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
-Was this 12th vertebrae as a result of some kind of trauma in the past then? -I got shot. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:31 | |
-I had a backpack on and the bullet... -Cut that. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:35 | |
..hit the backpack and, obviously, it were like a shockwave from the bullet. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:41 | |
Andrew was dressed for his open cockpit. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
-You couldn't do us a favour, could you? -I will do. Go on. | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
-Get your scissors and do t'other arm. I'm sweating like a pig. -Of course I will. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
-It's all this microfleece to keep you warm... -While you're up there. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
-You're a star. -I've never been told I'm a star for cutting clothes off another fella before! | 0:23:57 | 0:24:02 | |
'Lifting at 10.45...' | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
Andrew is airborne again, this time for hospital. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
20 minutes ago, his coolness saved the lives of himself and his passenger. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:15 | |
Are you panicking a little? You're all right. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
Now the shock of a life-threatening, in-flight emergency is beginning to hit him. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:23 | |
In the next hour, Andrew will find out if he's likely to fly again | 0:24:24 | 0:24:29 | |
or whether his back injury will ground him for good. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
We do a brief neurological assessment | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
which found that he was numb in the top part of his legs, | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
so there's a good chance of spinal injury. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Now they're doing a more thorough neurological assessment in the hospital. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:47 | |
Altitude 2,000 feet... | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
For the Helimed team, it's been a textbook search and rescue mission, | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
thanks to the reassuring voice that helps them do their jobs every day. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
It was all dealt with very swiftly, great teamwork from all involved. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
The aviation community, whenever "Mayday" is heard on a radio, | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
no matter where you are, | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
whether you're flying for British Airways, Ryanair, Jet2, | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
we're all part of the community that says an emergency is going on | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
and everybody offers their assistance as quickly as possible. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
And at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
Andrew is grateful for the fellow aviators who flew to his rescue. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
Literally, within a minute, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
I take my headphones off | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
and I could hear the police helicopter circling above. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
Another minute after that, we saw the Air Ambulance coming in to land as well. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:40 | |
Fortunately, it's just a bit of bruising now on the spinal cord. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
But hopefully, in a few more weeks, I'll be back up flying. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:50 | |
Making a Mayday call was a memorable experience for all the wrong reasons. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
'Mayday, Mayday, Mayday!' | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
It's a call you never really want to make. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
The aircraft were being thrown about quite violently for the first 10 or 15 seconds. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:07 | |
But after that, I managed to gain control and land safely in the field. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
Somebody's waiting for the pigeon to come home. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
Although by the sound of the bang, I thought it were an ostrich, but ostriches can't fly. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:22 | |
Coming up, the man rescued from drowning in Whitby harbour reaches hospital. Will he recover? | 0:26:26 | 0:26:32 | |
They'll want to warm him back up to a normal temperature. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
Some of this scenery may look familiar. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
This is what's now known as Herriot Country after James Herriot, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:48 | |
the local vet who turned life down here on the farm into best-selling books and a TV series. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:54 | |
But the Helimed team know their way around the fields and barns of this area for a different reason. | 0:26:54 | 0:27:00 | |
Even the most idyllic landscape can be the backdrop to a nasty accident. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:05 | |
The Helimed team are called to farms twice a week on average, more than 100 times a year. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:12 | |
Cattle moving off to the left, horses as well. Beware of horses. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
Today in North Yorkshire, the early harvest is over for one farm worker. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:21 | |
-Hiya, lads. How are we doing? -Hiya. -How's the pain? -Bearable. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:27 | |
27-year-old Matt Rodgers has been trapped by a combine harvester. His leg is crushed. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
-What injuries has he got? -It looks like just tissue damage. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
It's just all muscle. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Is it muscle? | 0:27:40 | 0:27:42 | |
-We strapped that across him. -Oh, right, I see. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
-Can you feel the oxygen, Matt? -All down this side? -It all opened up inside, yeah. Right up to there. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:53 | |
Fire-fighters have spent 45 minutes cutting him free. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
Now he's about to get a 150 mile-an-hour flight to surgery. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:03 | |
We'll go straight north and over the hill to James Cook where they've got the specialist trauma centre. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:09 | |
He needs some surgery straight away probably. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
Matt's leg is badly broken. He'll need reconstructive surgery if he's to walk normally again. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:19 | |
Combine harvesters are heavy, powerful and hard to steer as Matt's found out. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:25 | |
OK, you're normally fit and well. No asthma, no diabetes...? | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
Matt's been freed, but the medics are concerned. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
His crush injuries are serious and he could be bleeding internally. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
He had a bit of metal protruding out his right lower buttock, but it didn't penetrate his skin. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:42 | |
-He's got quite bit of bruising on this other femur. -We'll get him all tied up, lads, then we can... | 0:28:42 | 0:28:48 | |
-Is my phone still there? -Yeah, it's in your pocket. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:51 | |
He's an hour's drive from the nearest major trauma unit at the other side of the North York Moors. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:57 | |
But thanks to Helimed 99, he'll be touching down in A&E in Middlesbrough | 0:28:57 | 0:29:02 | |
in less than 15 minutes. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
OK, feet first, nice and high. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
That'll be grand. Keep him as high as we can. That's great. Keep coming, keep coming. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:12 | |
No wonder farmers in North Yorkshire are among the Air Ambulance's biggest fundraisers. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:18 | |
They know they're more likely to need help than most city dwellers. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:23 | |
After extensive surgery at the James Cook Hospital, Matt was released, | 0:29:23 | 0:29:27 | |
but it will be some time before he is fit to return to work. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:32 | |
You don't have to be working out in the fields to hurt yourself on a farm. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:37 | |
This is a workplace the whole family has to share. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
In a farmyard in West Yorkshire, there's been a bizarre accident. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:47 | |
Helimed 98's patient is a woman who has become impaled on a rake. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:52 | |
To get a rake through your leg, it could be they've stood on a rake and it's gone through the foot | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
or it could be that a rake has splintered | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
and become impaled into the leg, | 0:30:01 | 0:30:04 | |
but as with any injury where it's pierced the skin, you're looking at damage to underlying structures. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:10 | |
Ground medics have moved Mary Schofield into their ambulance. The rake is still embedded in her leg. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:17 | |
Negative at the moment, because she's in the ambulance, so we'll be able to transport her closer. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:23 | |
She must have fallen on to the rake | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
and the rake's actually become embedded with two prongs around her knee area. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:31 | |
Paramedics see all sorts of injuries, but this one is a first for everyone and it's serious. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:37 | |
Mary has lost a lot of blood and the pain is unbearable. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
We gave her some pain relief. We cut down the rake with a steel saw. | 0:30:41 | 0:30:46 | |
Whether we'll be able to get her in the helicopter, I don't know. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:51 | |
Peter now had a dilemma. The handle of the rake is too long to fit into Helimed 98. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:56 | |
But they can't risk moving the rake in case it's ruptured blood vessels or an artery. | 0:30:56 | 0:31:03 | |
The options are cutting it down, so we can get this into the aircraft - | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
the guys have already cut the post to get into the vehicle - or cutting the metal fork itself. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:12 | |
If Mary thought her ordeal couldn't get any worse, she could be in for a surprise. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:18 | |
They said, "Have you got any burning tackle?" They'll cut the steel off, | 0:31:18 | 0:31:23 | |
so there isn't a handle on it and it travels better. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
That should mean the paramedics can remove the wooden handle, | 0:31:26 | 0:31:30 | |
but blowtorches can reach temperatures of over 2,000 degrees Celsius | 0:31:30 | 0:31:35 | |
and the team risk making Mary's injuries a lot worse. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:39 | |
-Get that wet stuff over. -Get them wet rags over her. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
Paramedics have to be resourceful sometimes and with the aid of a few useful objects from the farmyard, | 0:31:42 | 0:31:48 | |
the team start to remove the end of the rake. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
Just as close to that as we can. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
The fierce flame is just a few inches away from Mary's leg, but it's worked. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:05 | |
She's been very brave. I don't think I could have been as brave. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:09 | |
She's been marvellous. She's done really well. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
-Am I going to Pinderfields still? -Yeah, I think so. -In the ambulance? -In the helicopter. -Oh, dear. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:18 | |
If it's hurting too much, let us know and we'll stop. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:22 | |
Now minus a long wooden pole, Mary easily fits into Helimed 98. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:28 | |
And Pinderfields Hospital is only a few minutes away. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:32 | |
Husband David is flying too, but with a dirty metal rake still stuck in her knee, | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
infection is a real risk and one which could complicate Mary's recovery. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:44 | |
Working on a farm is among the most dangerous jobs you can do. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:48 | |
From frisky livestock to toxic chemicals, there are endless ways you can hurt yourself. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:54 | |
But even your trusty tractor can be a killer. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:59 | |
Did they say this guy was actually in a field? | 0:32:59 | 0:33:02 | |
It's Crosper Farm. I'm wondering if it's a family business? | 0:33:02 | 0:33:06 | |
On the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, a young farm hand has been run over by his own tractor | 0:33:06 | 0:33:12 | |
that weighs over five tonnes. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
Got some wires down just before the building. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:19 | |
He's waving away, or someone in the crew. I can't make out his hand signals, to be honest. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:25 | |
It's going to be a dusty landing, | 0:33:25 | 0:33:28 | |
particularly for a ground paramedic who probably wishes he hadn't decided to marshal in Helimed 99. | 0:33:28 | 0:33:34 | |
Peter Wass appears to have had a miraculous escape. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
He was emptying freshly cut grass on to a silage heap when the accident happened. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:43 | |
And the tractor has squashed Peter into the soft mound. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:47 | |
This is the driver of the tractor. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
And as he's jumped out, another tractor has rolled over him. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
There's no doubt 16-year-old Peter has been lucky. | 0:33:55 | 0:33:59 | |
But he's sustained a notoriously painful injury. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:03 | |
He's been run over by a tractor over his right upper leg. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:07 | |
Query - dislocated right hip. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
I think we'll be about ten minutes getting him on board. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
So I think we'll have an ETA of about 10.40. Over. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
That'll start working, but it'll be about 10 or 15 minutes. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
I'm just loading you up, so take your time, nice and steady. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
We'll get you some gas and air, so we can get you on this flat board cos that's gonna be a bit painful. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:32 | |
The main thing is transferring him with as little pain as possible. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:36 | |
He'll have some gas and air to supplement the morphine. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
-Are we going straight over on to the board? -Yes. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
-When you're ready... -Ready, steady, move. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:47 | |
Do you want some more of that gas? | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
I know you're not so keen on it, but just try and relax that leg again for us. All right? | 0:34:51 | 0:34:57 | |
Take some nice, deep breaths. | 0:34:57 | 0:34:59 | |
According to the Health and Safety Executive, | 0:34:59 | 0:35:02 | |
agriculture is now officially the most dangerous job in Britain. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
OK, that's it. Let go. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:09 | |
Peter's farming career has only just started. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
Now he's likely to be laid up for months recovering from the accident that could have killed him. | 0:35:12 | 0:35:18 | |
Harrogate Hospital and more pain relief is thankfully only a few minutes away. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:23 | |
-Were it the front or back wheel? Can you remember? -Back wheel. It went over my leg, then stopped. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:30 | |
But you were on all that silage, so it were soft underneath you. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
All right. It's no consolation, is it? | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
This is Helimed 99, just lifted from a site near Spofforth and bound to Harrogate Hospital. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:44 | |
Thanks to Helimed 99 and the silage heap, | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
Peter spent just a few days in hospital and was soon back home. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:52 | |
But farming is a physical job and it'll be some time before he is back on the farm. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:59 | |
Growing up on a farm sounds like a dream for a city kid like me - | 0:36:00 | 0:36:05 | |
loads of fresh air, freedom and lots of things to mess about with, | 0:36:05 | 0:36:09 | |
but the countryside can be a dangerous place. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
Take this wheelbarrow - hardly the most dangerous object in the world! | 0:36:12 | 0:36:17 | |
But in the skies over the Yorkshire Dales, paramedics Pete Vallance and Al Day are about to deal | 0:36:17 | 0:36:23 | |
with the result of a bizarre accident. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
Somebody's apparently fallen. We don't know too much about the job. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:30 | |
It's come from another ambulance service. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:33 | |
We'll see what's going on when we get there. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
Looks like cattle to the right-hand side and horses. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:40 | |
Farmers have to be smart businessmen to survive up in the Dales. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:44 | |
Some have branched out in unusual directions. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:47 | |
-You've got llamas in that field. -Is that what they are? | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
Pilot JJ Smith hasn't had to deal with llamas before. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
The team's patient today is Daniel Hall. He's one of three brothers who love Jackass, | 0:36:54 | 0:37:00 | |
the American TV series in which crazy stunts often result in painful injuries. | 0:37:00 | 0:37:05 | |
They've certainly managed that bit. His leg is broken. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
His injury is the result of a high-speed wheelbarrow ride down a steep hill | 0:37:08 | 0:37:13 | |
on the farm where his mum keeps horses. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:17 | |
-He was wheelbarrowing down the hill, then he let go and he started rolling and spinning. -And he heard a crack. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:23 | |
His brothers are remarkably unsympathetic. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:27 | |
-Daniel actually did it with me first, then Joshua. -Great. -Then Daniel did it with me later. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:33 | |
And then I did it, but I didn't break anything. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:38 | |
-Don't watch it. -Don't watch it? Don't do it. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
If you push up with your good leg, if I support this, can you manage up there? | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
Paramedic Pete is used to bizarre accidents, but not those inspired by TV. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:51 | |
I've watched a few episodes, but it gets a bit severe at times with some of the stunts they get up to. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:58 | |
-I bet you don't watch it, do you? -Do you watch Jackass? -No, I don't. | 0:37:58 | 0:38:03 | |
Good answer. | 0:38:03 | 0:38:05 | |
Don't do this at home. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:07 | |
He should have listened to his brother. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:11 | |
Daniel's injury is painful, but not serious enough to earn him a flight to hospital. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:16 | |
He's soon on his way back up the hill on four wheels. He'll be in plaster for a month. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:22 | |
His next attempt at wheelbarrow racing will have to wait. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
I'm pleased to say all our patients are on the road to recovery. | 0:38:26 | 0:38:30 | |
Let's find out what happened to the man who was lucky to survive a fall off the harbour wall at Whitby. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:37 | |
On a summer's Sunday evening, | 0:38:37 | 0:38:39 | |
the holidaymakers in Whitby have witnessed a dramatic rescue in the town's historic harbour. | 0:38:39 | 0:38:45 | |
The inshore lifeboat was launched and plucked local man Stuart Sloane out of the cold water. | 0:38:45 | 0:38:51 | |
Now the Helimed team are racing the setting sun to get Stuart to the trauma centre | 0:38:51 | 0:38:56 | |
of the James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough. | 0:38:56 | 0:39:00 | |
It seems that he's maybe fractured quite a few ribs on his right side. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:05 | |
With the chopper not able to fly at night, | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
Middlesbrough and the James Cook Hospital helipad is a welcome sight for the crew and patient. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:13 | |
We're going into the hospital. OK, arm across your tummy like that. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:18 | |
There's another worry. As well as Stuart's injuries from his fall, | 0:39:18 | 0:39:22 | |
swallowing a lot of salt water can be deadly. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
It can bring on what's called secondary drowning | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
where excess salt dehydrates the body to such an extent, | 0:39:29 | 0:39:33 | |
it can go into cardiac arrest up to 24 hours after the incident. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:37 | |
We're quite concerned about this rib pain that he's got. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
We're quite worried about his ribs. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:43 | |
They're just in there now giving him some more painkiller, | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
then Lee's handing over and letting them know what's happened. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
While Lee is in Resus dealing with his patient, pilot Craig is speeding things along, | 0:39:51 | 0:39:57 | |
clearing up the paramedics' medical kit. He needs a quick getaway from Teesside. | 0:39:57 | 0:40:02 | |
They're probably gonna want to warm him back up to a normal temperature. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:07 | |
He still was very cold, despite the blankets that we put on him. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
It's a week since the accident | 0:40:12 | 0:40:15 | |
and Stuart is now recovering back home in Whitby. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:19 | |
For Steve Crowe, the hero of this rescue, it's just another day at work, | 0:40:22 | 0:40:27 | |
persuading tourists to take a speedboat ride around the bay. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:31 | |
I was just packing up for the night, | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
getting everything on the boat, then go home. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
And somebody shouted down that he fell in. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:40 | |
It's a fair old fall, to be honest with you. | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
It's about a 20-foot fall, something like that? | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
First I was looking for a way to get him out without having to go in there cos it's very cold. | 0:40:47 | 0:40:53 | |
There wasn't a way, so I climbed down the ladder and walked up to him. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:57 | |
If he'd calmed down, he could've walked over to the ladder himself, | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
then waited for the inshore lifeboat to show up. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:03 | |
The RNLI inshore rescue crew train for incidents like this. | 0:41:03 | 0:41:07 | |
These volunteers are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. | 0:41:07 | 0:41:13 | |
When we got on the scene, a police officer and a member of the public were holding him. | 0:41:13 | 0:41:18 | |
We realised he was badly injured. | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
That's the first time I've worked with the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:24 | |
It's good that they're there to assist with what we've got to do. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:28 | |
And as for our reluctant hero Steve Crowe, | 0:41:28 | 0:41:32 | |
every day at work is a reminder of what could have been. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:36 | |
Since that day, whenever people are up close to the edge, it makes you a bit nervous. | 0:41:36 | 0:41:41 | |
Yeah. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
And that is all from Helicopter Heroes for now. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:50 | |
Thanks for watching. And remember, if you're ever in trouble, help might just come from the skies. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:56 | |
Subtitles by Subtext for Red Bee Media Ltd 2009 | 0:42:08 | 0:42:12 | |
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