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If you're seriously ill, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
or critically injured, every second counts, | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
especially if you're up high or off the beaten track, | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
but, thanks to these guys, the people of the UK's biggest county | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
are never more than ten minutes away from a hospital. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance can do 150 miles an hour, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
and every day brings a new life-or-death emergency. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:27 | |
Five million people depend on these yellow helicopters to bring life-saving care from the skies. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:52 | |
When a multiple pile-up closes Britain's highest motorway, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
or there's a serious accident on the shop floor, | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
the highly-trained paramedics and pilots of the Helimed team are there to rescue the casualties. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
Today on Helicopter Heroes... | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
the team battle to save a farm-worker's badly injured leg... | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
Good man. Take some nice deep breaths. Don't worry. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
..Paramedic Sammy's in a tight spot with a patient who's rolled his hatchback... | 0:01:14 | 0:01:19 | |
-Which wrist is it that's hurting most, this one? -Yes. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
..An adventurous teenager tumbles out of a tree... | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
Nothing to say there is... | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
..And there's a major operation to save a tombstoner who's plunged from a waterfall. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
Farming sounds like a great way to make a living - | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
plenty of fresh air and beautiful countryside to enjoy, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
but a lot of the machinery you work with can be lethal, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:51 | |
as one farmhand found out during the harvest in North Yorkshire. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
RADIO: 'I've got someone. It looks like he might have amputated his foot, | 0:01:55 | 0:02:00 | |
'or part of his leg, I'm not sure, with a combine harvester.' | 0:02:00 | 0:02:06 | |
Helimed 99's just delivered a patient to hospital, now there's an even more urgent case. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:11 | |
'If you could mobilise on this as soon as you can, Tone.' | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
Luckily, they're just 10 minutes from the remote farm where the accident has happened. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:20 | |
But paramedics Tony Wilkes and Lee Gray know there's a problem - | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
999 callers are rarely able to give a grid reference, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
especially when the accident's happened in a farmer's field. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
-This is an area grid, so we're looking for... -'A combine harvester, basically, yeah.' | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
The crew have to rely on their eyesight. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
Is that machinery near that bale... bales of hay at two o'clock? | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
Luckily, Lee's sharp eye has spotted the incident. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
'Yeah, bike on your right has confirmed.' | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
A motorbike medic has already reached the scene. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
23-year-old tractor driver Jason Winspear was harvesting maize | 0:03:02 | 0:03:07 | |
when he was involved in an accident with a combine. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
-You're not allergic to any medicines at all? -No. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Good man. We're just going to start giving you some pain relief, all right? | 0:03:15 | 0:03:20 | |
-What do we call you? What's your name? -Jason. -Jason. Good lad, Jason. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
-Good lad, Jase. -All right, pal. We'll look after you, pal. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:30 | |
Can we have long leg splints, orange ones, please? | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
The razor-sharp scissors that slice through the thick stalks of the crop | 0:03:33 | 0:03:39 | |
have all but severed Jason's lower leg. He's in a bad way. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
If workmates hadn't used a piece of rope as a makeshift tourniquet, he could have already bled to death. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
All right? Take some nice deep breaths. We're just going to be round your leg. Don't worry. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:55 | |
The main priority is to control Jason's pain. Lee and Tony have their work cut out. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:01 | |
Again, just try and bear with it, matey. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
Luckily, even more expert help is arriving. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
From what we can make out, it's probably just a bit of skin just holding. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
Flying doctor Rob Anderson can see immediately Jason's leg will have to be fully amputated. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:21 | |
Yeah, well, obviously we can't cut the skin off. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
That's what I'd do in this... I've done it before a few times. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
What they can't do is tell Jason. It could make his condition worse. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
-Agh! The pain! -I know, mate. -Agh! -I know, pal. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
Jason, just let me know if the pain gets a lot worse, all right? | 0:04:39 | 0:04:45 | |
-Oh, don't let it get worse. -Just having a look at this leg, OK? | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
Coming up - can the team save Jason's leg? | 0:04:55 | 0:04:58 | |
Doctors make a decision that could change his life. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:01 | |
There's a consultant who's interested in re-implanting limbs, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
who works here, who going to come and have a look. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
A teenager's broken both wrists after plunging 20 feet from a tree. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:12 | |
Pete's just given him some morphine. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
Anything, just so I can tie him to me. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
And paramedic Tony pulls off a rope trick as he tries to rescue an elderly tourist. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:24 | |
When a patient needs help, paramedics often need to put their own safety second, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
but there's no substitute for a reassuring voice when you're injured and trapped. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:39 | |
There's been a head-on crash on a country road near Worksop. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Helimed 98 has been scrambled from its Sheffield base. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:48 | |
We're en route to reports | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
of a car that's overturned and we believe the patient's trapped. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
-Quite a lot of cloud about. -Yeah. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
The heavy mist is making it hard to find the crash scene. | 0:05:55 | 0:06:01 | |
-I think it's down here. -I've got visibility with the incident. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
-Oh, nice one. -That's really muddy. -Very muddy. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
-Don't just blow the car back over, will you, mate? -No. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
-Let's try and get a skid on the grass. -OK. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
The responder's not with that car that's upturned, he's with the other one. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:23 | |
Two cars have collided. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
One of the drivers has walked away, the other is still trapped into his seat and can't get out. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:32 | |
Morning. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:34 | |
-Hello. We've got this chap here. -Yeah. -He's not trapped, he's free. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
-Yeah. -We've got some head injuries on that one there that was laid on his side. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
-How happy are we about this car - it's not about to go any further, is it? -This gentleman's a firefighter. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
-Pleased to meet you. Thank you very much. -So everybody's on the way with it. -Brilliant. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
-Okey-dokey. -OK? -Yeah. -Lovely. -At the moment, you're just balanced, aren't you? How are you feeling? | 0:06:53 | 0:06:59 | |
-I've got a bit of pain in my arm. -A bit of pain in your arm? OK. Are you normally fit and well? -Very. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
Yeah, no medication or anything? | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
Once we're in, I'm going to shift the weight of the whole car | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
and I don't want it to carry on toppling over, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
so whilst he's talking to us and we know that he's stable, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
we'll just wait a couple of minutes till they're secure. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
28-year-old Wayne Glasby is precariously suspended from his seatbelt | 0:07:19 | 0:07:26 | |
and it's cutting into his stomach and shoulder. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
Firemen are making the vehicle safe, | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
so paramedic Sammy Wills can crawl in and take a closer look at Wayne's injuries. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
-Wayne, the lady behind you is going to move the headrest, OK? -Yeah. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:41 | |
SIREN WAILS I'm going to pass out a bit more of that broken glass, | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
so I can kneel down. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
The broken glass isn't from the car windows. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
-What did you have in it - a fruit bowl? -My mum's trifle bowl. She'll kill me. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:55 | |
-Your mum's what, trifle bowl? -Yeah. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
-Is that her job this Christmas? -She'll have you back, don't worry! | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
We stabilised the vehicle and now we've allowed the paramedic to go in there | 0:08:01 | 0:08:06 | |
to assess the casualty. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
We've now made access into the vehicle to assist and hold the casualty in position. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:13 | |
We're hoping to fold the roof down and assist the casualty out that way. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
The combined weight of two cars is around two-and-a-half tonnes. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
This is what happens when they crash head on. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
-Have I broken it? -Yeah, I think you have, mate. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
-Is it in the palm of your hand? -Oh-h! -OK, mate. Well done. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
Right, once they've got rid of the windscreen, someone will come in this side and support both your shoulders | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
and we'll cut that seatbelt off. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
CUTTING MACHINERY WHIRRS | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
I'd like to put a little needle in this one, if that's OK with you. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
-I don't like needles. -You don't like needles? -I'm a butcher by trade... | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
If Wayne's broken his wrist, he won't be wielding his butcher's knife for quite a while. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
-I pulled my shoulder blade lifting a side of beef yesterday. -Open and close that arm again. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
That's it. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
But the paramedics are worried he may have more serious spinal injuries, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:15 | |
which won't come to light until he's out of the car. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Sammy, I can't get in there at the moment. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
-How tight is that on your neck? -Killing me. -It's really tight. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
Wayne is incredibly uncomfortable, but if they cut the seatbelt too soon, | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
he'll fall on his head. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
The powerful jaws of the hydraulic cutters are carving out an escape route - | 0:09:35 | 0:09:42 | |
that's the end of Wayne's nice car. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
We're going to slowly release your weight and try and support you best I can. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
He's going to go face down and then we'll roll him out there. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
Lay against that board, mate. You're all right there. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
Just go with it. Lay it down flat. Fingers. Just go with it. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
And he's free at last, but the paramedics aren't taking any chances. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:05 | |
They need to keep him as still as possible, so they bring him out face down. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:11 | |
Going to have a quick look. What am I doing? | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Before turning him over, paramedic Glen checks to see if Wayne has damaged his back. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
It appears he's had a very lucky escape. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
-Straighten it for me. -Oh, my arm! -Stay still. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
Wayne is about to come face to face with his rescuers for the first time. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:34 | |
Pleased to meet you anyway. I can actually see you face-to-face now. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
-How are you feeling now? -I'm fine. It's just my wrist that's hurting. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
Yeah, you might have got away... Ooops, sorry. ..With that. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
Ready, steady, lift. OK. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
Is it your own business, mate? | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
-I've got a new shop opening Monday an' all. -Oh, dear. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
Wayne's still worried about his butcher's business. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
He's due to open a new shop tomorrow and he doesn't know how long he's going to be out of action. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
All the paramedics are concerned about is getting him to hospital as soon as possible. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:11 | |
He's really just bothered about his wrist, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
but because he's had a bang to the head and his eye is quite closed, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
he had a bit of repetitive speech so we're thinking concussion - | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
head injury, car's rolled as well, so we're playing it safe. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
Thanks to Helimed 98, the trip to Rotherham takes a matter of minutes. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:31 | |
Wayne has survived a terrifying road accident and a traumatic recovery from his car. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:41 | |
Now he's about to discover what the long-term effects will be. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
Coming up - the team reckon Wayne's lucky to be alive, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
but doctors have some bad news. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
A hospital team prepare to reattach a farmhand's severed leg... | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
It's just gone straight through four inches below his knee. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
..And the snap that almost cost a photographer his life. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
He just wandered off with the camera. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
Climbing trees is one of the things many of today's kids have forgotten how to do, | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
but one teenager has found out why some parents hesitate to let them take risks in the name of play. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:38 | |
13-year-old fallen out of a tree. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
It might be an access problem, because it's in some woods near some locks, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
so it could be an access problem. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:47 | |
The Helimed team spend most of their time heading out into the countryside to find their patients. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:52 | |
'Progress over to Bramley.' | 0:12:52 | 0:12:54 | |
It's caught in the turbulent wake from the 737, just airborne now. | 0:12:54 | 0:13:01 | |
But today they're battling through the rush hour at Leeds Bradford Airport and heading into town. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:07 | |
Leeds is one of the UK's greenest cities, and in an urban park, | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
13-year-old Jack Halliday has had a nasty accident. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
He's fallen 20 foot from a tree and now he's in agony and his mum is worried. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:20 | |
-He was climbing on that. -Right. -A bit snapped off and he fell on the floor. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:27 | |
Jack's a teenage rugby player and he doesn't hurt easily. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
-This one it were. -Up here? -Yeah. It snapped there. | 0:13:32 | 0:13:36 | |
-Are you with Jack? -I'm his mum. -Right. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
He landed on his arms, both of which are broken, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
But it's the severe back pain that most worries his rescuers. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
Keep still. You don't have to move to make the pain come on. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
We're going to splint your arms and we'll treat your back as if you've got an injury to it. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:53 | |
Jack's symptoms are similar to those caused by a spinal injury. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:58 | |
He's a long, bumpy walk from the nearest road, | 0:13:58 | 0:14:01 | |
which is why ground paramedics have called in Helimed 99. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
Pete's just giving him morphine. That should help with the pain. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:09 | |
I'm just making sure Pete's sharps get put somewhere safe, | 0:14:09 | 0:14:14 | |
as we're in a park and they can easily get lost and they're a danger to everybody else. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
Jack's arms are protected by splints made from a special plastic that memorises shape. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
-Now bring this arm in as well. -Am I going to hospital, yeah? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
-HE LAUGHS -Yeah. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:28 | |
Unfortunately, you need to go in, all right? | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
For Glen, treating injured teenagers is a little too close to home for comfort. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:37 | |
My son's 14. He's a bit like me - scared of heights - | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
which is a bit ironic, being in a helicopter. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
So, no, he doesn't climb trees, but he does play hockey, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
so he's more likely to lose his teeth than, er, break both wrists. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:49 | |
Jack's spine has been immobilised. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
He's complained of pain in his back | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
and numbness in his legs - classic symptoms of a serious spinal injury. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:59 | |
The team are taking no chances. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
All right, we're going to carry...lift you up, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
then we'll try and keep you as straight as we can. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
These boards will move around while we're moving, but you won't fall off. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
Jack's barely four miles from the region's biggest trauma unit, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
the Leeds General Infirmary. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
The rush hour's in full swing, but Helimed 99's crew don't have to worry about the jams. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:21 | |
Their patient is on his way to a full examination | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
by A&E doctors | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
and it turns out the team were right to take every precaution. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
In a long night of surgery, doctors discover that not only has he badly broken his wrists, | 0:15:34 | 0:15:41 | |
he also has serious damage to his spine. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
I've got a pin there | 0:15:44 | 0:15:45 | |
and pins there, but I've just got two pins in that one. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:49 | |
And I broke my arm and thumb. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
But the worst hangover from his 20-foot fall is this - | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
a full body cast, keeping his spine rigid. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
-OK, so what we're going to do today is take your plasters off. -Yeah. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
-We've got some wires in. We'll take them out. -Right. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
We'll put you in some nice, new, fresh casts. How's your back? | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
-It's all right. -All right, yeah? Painful? -No. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
SAW BUZZES | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
'I think, in the grand scheme of things, he's been very lucky.' | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
The air ambulance, as you know, brings us critically injured patients, | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
so I think he's got off relatively lightly. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
'Coming up, paramedic Sammy finds out why her patient looks a little familiar | 0:16:31 | 0:16:36 | |
'and I take a dip in the pool, but take it from me, you don't want to join me!' | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
It's freezing! | 0:16:40 | 0:16:41 | |
Now let's return to North Yorkshire where a flying doctor's helping the team rescue | 0:16:45 | 0:16:50 | |
a farmhand badly injured in a serious accident with a combine harvester. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
-HE GROANS -All right, sonny. Keep going for me. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
Good lad. Nice deep breaths again for me. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
The battle is on to save Jason Winspear's leg. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
-He's ready to roll. -10 minutes. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
Yeah, that's fine. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
It's almost severed and he's in terrible pain. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
Doing really well, mate. Really well. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
Good lad. Just slide down to you a bit... | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
Paramedic Lee Gray's trying to ease it, | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
but the whole team knows only speed will save this limb. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
All right, mate. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
He needs emergency surgery to repair the damage caused by the combine's blades. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:33 | |
Air desk, 99. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:36 | |
'99, go ahead.' | 0:17:36 | 0:17:37 | |
Just a quick update, Dave. We've got a male here, approximately 20s. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:43 | |
He's had his left foot | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
completely amputated. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
The doctor's on scene. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
He's had morphine and ketamine. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
GCS 15. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
You look a bit peaky, Jason. Are you feeling a bit weird? Don't worry. Everything's fine. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:58 | |
Let me get you up. | 0:17:58 | 0:17:59 | |
Jason's lucky in one way, at least. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
By road, the journey to Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
could take 45 minutes or more. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
The leg's been pretty much | 0:18:08 | 0:18:09 | |
completely amputated. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
I gave him stronger pain relief | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
and completely amputated the limb for ease of transfer. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
There was nothing...that could be done to save the limb | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
at this present time. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:22 | |
-Just...shoot me. -Jason, we're just going to give you some oxygen, mate. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
-Keep your head nice and clear. -Anything, just kill me. -All right. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
My leg hurts. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:30 | |
-MACHINE BEEPS -I know. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:32 | |
I know, Jase, but we won't be long and we'll be up at hospital. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
Just 10 minutes. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:36 | |
Jason's leg's amputated from about three inches below his knee. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
It's gone straight through his boot | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
and obviously his suit. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
Em, fortunately the farmers on scene | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
have put a makeshift tourniquet round with some rope, | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
which has obviously helped things | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
and then we had a doctor arrive, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
which has been a massive help, just to give some ketamine for pain-relief. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
Jason's quite sedated at the moment. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
His observations are all good, | 0:19:02 | 0:19:03 | |
but we need to get up to James Cook as quick as we can | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
just to keep the limb viable, really, if we can. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
Ready, steady, move. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
In some cases, severed limbs can be reattached. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
If the cut is clean like this one, the chances are better. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
Even then, Jason is unlikely to regain full use of his lower leg. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:23 | |
The surgeons are here now. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
They're doing X-rays as we speak and then they'll make a decision. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
There's a consultant who's interested in re-implanting limbs | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
who works here, who's going to come and have a look. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:36 | |
The bone, it's gone straight through horizontally about 4 inches below his knee... | 0:19:36 | 0:19:41 | |
The foot, at the moment, is obviously dead. It was dead when we got there. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:48 | |
There was no blood supply to it. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
..But they may be able to re...re-implant it. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
Coming up... | 0:19:59 | 0:20:00 | |
doctors face the agonising decision - to operate | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
or leave Jason to face a lifetime with an artificial limb. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
And paramedic Tony rescues a pensioner whose walk across water | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
ended in a nasty fall. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
It's just been a case of getting him over without us all going in, basically. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
This control room receives an average of 1,800 999 calls a day | 0:20:33 | 0:20:39 | |
from an area that's bigger than some countries. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
That's one call a minute! | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
So it's only a handful of Yorkshire's patients | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
who get help from the skies. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
Two cars have collided on a country road just outside Worksop. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
One of the drivers, 28-year-old Wayne Glasby, is trapped. | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
Paramedic Sammy Wills has to crawl inside the car | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
to assess his injuries. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:04 | |
Wayne, this headrest, I'm going to remove it. It's not touching him, is it? | 0:21:04 | 0:21:09 | |
Wayne is a self-employed butcher and if he's broken his wrist, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
he won't be able to do his job, | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
but he seems to have escaped without damaging his back. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:17 | |
Surgeons at the hospital will soon be able to tell. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:21 | |
For more than a month, the staff of Wayne's butcher's shop have had to get by without the boss. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
He's undergoing a series of operations in Rotherham Hospital. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
'But six weeks after his traumatic accident, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
'Wayne's already back on his feet.' | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
So, you've got a nasty-looking cast on your arm. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Come to a left-hand bend | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
and all I can physically remember is seeing a Cavalier | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
coming sideways round the opposite corner and just hit me. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
That was it. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
And then...woke up in Rotherham Hospital, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
"Where the hell am I?" That sort of thing. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
I didn't know what had happened, didn't know nothing. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
So you were taken to Rotherham Hospital, | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
where the full extent of your injuries were apparent. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
What did you have? | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
I broke my...my nose and I dislocated my right pelvis, | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
broke my right cheekbone, | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
had nine stitches in my left eyelid, | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
dislocated my left knee, | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
black and blue from top to toe, | 0:22:16 | 0:22:18 | |
and internal bruising on my right-hand side of my ribs. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
So, on top of all that, | 0:22:22 | 0:22:23 | |
you then had a completely crushed arm for good measure?! | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
From the join of my left wrist to my elbow, I completely shattered it - | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
my tendons, my guidelines... I just disintegrated my arm, basically. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
It's completely shattered. They've had to rebuild it. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
'The only thing Wayne can remember from the accident | 0:22:37 | 0:22:41 | |
'is paramedic Sammy taking care of him whilst he was trapped.' | 0:22:41 | 0:22:45 | |
I'd love to thank that lady, personally, sort of thing, | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
because without her, I don't think I'd be here, to tell you the truth. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
She really is an absolute diamond. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
And Sammy's just as keen to meet Wayne as he is to meet her. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:59 | |
Good afternoon. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
-You wouldn't happen to be Wayne? -Hello! How are you? | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
Good. How are you?! | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
-I've been better, but, yeah... -You're looking really, really well! | 0:23:07 | 0:23:11 | |
'Whereabouts was I and how was I and what condition was I in?' | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
-The car itself... -Yes? -..Was on its side. -Right. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
You are still with your seatbelt on, so you're pivoted round | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
and your seatbelt's holding you in and your legs are trying to touch the floor, but don't quite. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
You'd obviously got a broken arm - that just stood out - | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
but then we had to be careful for your neck and your back | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
and your pelvis. And your legs - you were complaining about one of your knees. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
Yeah, like you say, I'm a little fighter. I just keep going. With my business, I've got to. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:43 | |
What did you have in here, a fruit bowl? | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
Me mum's trifle bowl. She'll kill me. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
Your mum's what? Trifle bowl? | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
Your mum had.... Your mum's bowl was in the back of your car and it was broken. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
-The trifle bowl! -You told me it was the trifle bowl | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
and I had to take it in chunks cos I couldn't get to you. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
I'm like, "This is really sharp glass, not safety glass," | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
so I had to say, "Sorry about Mum's bowl!" | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
-Yes, Mum wasn't a happy bunny about that! -No? | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
In fact...we've had quite a laugh and a joke about it | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
because the first thing Mum said to me after asking if I was OK, | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
she said, "Where's me glass bowl?" | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
The top of her agenda, "Where's me glass bowl?" | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
I said, "You'll have to ask that lady in the orange suit cos I don't know, myself." | 0:24:20 | 0:24:25 | |
It was in several pieces and I did have to remove it before I climbed in. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
-I think we owe Mummy a new trifle bowl, I think! -Yeah. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
Despite all his injuries, Wayne knows he's had a lucky escape. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:37 | |
'Thank you, once again,' | 0:24:37 | 0:24:39 | |
-for all your help and effort. -You are welcome! | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:43 | |
Coming up... | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
surgeons at James Cook Hospital decide whether farm worker Jason's leg can be saved. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
We all love water. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
Everyone wants a swimming pool when we go on holiday. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
Here at the original Turkish baths in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
people have been sampling the delights of water since Victorian times, | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
but it's also a good place to demonstrate how getting into water unexpectedly, | 0:25:11 | 0:25:16 | |
can endanger your life. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
Yorkshire's Three Peaks, high in the Pennines, | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
are among the UK's wettest places. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
This entire landscape was carved out by millions of years of rainfall | 0:25:24 | 0:25:30 | |
and today, one stretch of wild water has claimed a casualty. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
Try and take him up the stairs. He'll slide across it. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
We came down the steps and seen him lying in the water, | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
his head in the water, so we got down, pulled him out | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
and then, obviously - touch wood - managed to get him rescued by the ambulance people. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:48 | |
Robert Hutchinson was walking with his wife | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
when he slipped 30 feet down a ravine into a waterfall | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
and was knocked unconscious. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:55 | |
He just wandered off with the camera to take some photographs | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
cos I'm very slow at walking and he's, you know... | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
usually better than me. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
And...I just couldn't find him. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
Helimed 99 has been scrambled, | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
but the weather that created the Three Peaks could prevent them reaching their patient. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:14 | |
OK, how high's the ground down that way? | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
Hopefully be able to get direct to have a look. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
These clouds have hard centres. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
Each conceals a 2,000-foot peak. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
We're heading west, then towards higher ground. 2,000 feet now. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
But thanks to a lucky break in the cloud cover, | 0:26:31 | 0:26:34 | |
Helimed 99 is finally on the case. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
How close are we to moving? | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
A while yet? | 0:26:40 | 0:26:42 | |
Flying doctor Simon Ward volunteers to go down to the water. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:47 | |
Simon's just going down, our doctor. He's just going to do another assessment. | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
Have they explained what's going on? We need to get him out in a controlled manner. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
Robert's head is bleeding heavily, but Dr Simon has some good news. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:02 | |
His head injury's not that bad. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:03 | |
He's got a facial injury and he's got a Colles' on his right wrist. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:08 | |
Hasn't been any other injury to him. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
But Robert's not out of danger yet. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
Wading in icy water, the medics can't rule out a neck injury from the fall | 0:27:14 | 0:27:19 | |
and as rain continues to fall, he must be moved. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
We're just getting him up now with the help of the rescue organisation | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
and we'll have a reassessment once he's up | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
and make a decision about where he'll be taken for treatment. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
Volunteers from the local cave-rescue team are used to emergencies like this. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
Robert will be hauled up the ravine | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
by old-fashioned manpower. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
But the journey to Helimed 99 will still take its toll. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:44 | |
-Have you got the weight? -Yeah. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
OK, we're going to take it off and put it on the ground. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
OK, I've got the handle. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
Just come forwards two metres. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
A ground-ambulance crew spent half an hour in icy water, treating their patient, | 0:27:56 | 0:28:01 | |
but for the paramedics of the peaks, it's all in a day's work. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:05 | |
'He was conscious, but he had a fracture to his right wrist, | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
'and obviously some facial injuries from actually falling.' | 0:28:09 | 0:28:13 | |
We were just concerned for the mechanisms of injury. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
Robert ended up with a painful broken jaw and a broken wrist. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
Next time he stops to take a picture, | 0:28:20 | 0:28:24 | |
he'll be more careful where he's standing. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:27 | |
If ever you've fallen into water unexpectedly, | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
you'll understand what a shock it can be. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
Well, here, people do it for fun | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
and I'm about to find out what that feels like. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:38 | |
Paramedic James Vine has rescued plenty of people from water | 0:28:38 | 0:28:42 | |
and understands the dangers. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:44 | |
'Against my better judgement, I'm taking the plunge.' | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
Oh! | 0:28:49 | 0:28:50 | |
God, it's freezing! | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
You're experiencing a process called cold shock. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
You get the initial involuntary gasp of breath, hyperventilation, | 0:28:55 | 0:29:00 | |
and - I'm sure you're feeling it now - | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
your muscles are starting to feel weak and uncoordinated. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
-How does it affect the way you deal with them? -It makes things a lot more difficult. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:10 | |
It compounds the injuries they've already had and, being cold and wet, | 0:29:10 | 0:29:15 | |
you lose body heat 25% quicker than you would in the dry. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:19 | |
After just a couple of minutes in cold water, I've had enough. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:23 | |
And jumping into cold water is even more dangerous. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:29 | |
Tombstoning - leaping into cold water - is growing in popularity. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:34 | |
But today, one teenage tombstoner has been badly injured in the North York Moors. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:39 | |
Rachel Nicholson was jumping from rocks into a deep pool when she injured her back. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:44 | |
A ground ambulance crew have called in reinforcements. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
I think it's more of a question of a problem with access to the place where somebody's fallen. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:54 | |
The ambulance crew won't be able to get to this patient, so maybe the air ambulance could help out. | 0:29:54 | 0:30:01 | |
The Yorkshire Dales are full of hazards for helicopters, and the crew are about to | 0:30:01 | 0:30:07 | |
-come across one of the oldest. -We might have to hover over | 0:30:07 | 0:30:10 | |
-the field a bit, because the sheep are looking scared. -OK. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:14 | |
OK, if there are any problems, let me know, OK? | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
..Trees to the rear. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
With a little help from paramedic Colin, Helimed 99 is down. | 0:30:23 | 0:30:28 | |
I'm on the ground. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
But finding the patient won't be easy. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:33 | |
Hiya, mate! Is the ambulance crew down there? | 0:30:33 | 0:30:36 | |
-Yes. Are you the air ambulance? -Yeah, we are. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:40 | |
And the team know getting their patient to the chopper will be difficult. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:46 | |
We've come about 300 metres, over unsteady rocks and footholdings and things... | 0:30:46 | 0:30:52 | |
This person has got back injuries...a spinal board... | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
Looking up, we might winch this person up. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:59 | |
Rachel, who was tombstoning with friends, has been strapped to a spinal board, | 0:30:59 | 0:31:04 | |
a stretcher designed to prevent further damage to her back. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:08 | |
Despite the warm weather, and her wetsuit, she's cold. | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
We were up on the hill and we heard a scream, | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
so we shouted down to this gentleman and he said | 0:31:15 | 0:31:19 | |
he'd ring an ambulance. We came down and had a quick chat with her. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
When the air ambulance crew arrives, patients usually know their ordeal | 0:31:22 | 0:31:26 | |
is nearly over. Not today. It'll be impossible to get Helimed 99 | 0:31:26 | 0:31:31 | |
anywhere near the waterfall. They'll have to call in RAF Rescue. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:35 | |
If we can get up to that grassy little section where my blue bag is, we'll go straight up from there. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:42 | |
The RAF Sea King air-sea rescue helicopters can do something | 0:31:42 | 0:31:47 | |
Helimed 99 can't. Their winchman will be able to lift Rachel through the trees | 0:31:47 | 0:31:53 | |
and off to hospital. It won't be easy. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
We are in the ravine, I don't know if you can see us | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
at the most central point. It's quite tight for tree cover. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
'It looks possible. | 0:32:04 | 0:32:08 | |
'We're going to come in and do an overhead check to make sure.' | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
The tree cover is so thick, the RAF winchman has to walk to the waterfall. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:18 | |
But the team have identified a place where Rachel can be safely winched. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:22 | |
The RAF Sea Kings weigh six tonnes, | 0:32:25 | 0:32:27 | |
and their patients feel every pound of it, | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
thanks to the massive downdraft. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:33 | |
But walking Rachel out of the gorge could make her back much worse. | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
It may not feel it, but this hair-raising ride | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
is a lot safer. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:42 | |
In a few minutes, she'll be touching down at hospital. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
It may not be the way Rachel expected her day to end, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
but she won't be the first tombstoner to enjoy a one-way trip to A&E. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:54 | |
Five months after her ordeal, and I'm catching up with Rachel at home. | 0:32:54 | 0:33:00 | |
Rachel, you've got something to tell us about a day that started off | 0:33:00 | 0:33:04 | |
as a bit of fun but didn't end up that way for you. What happened? | 0:33:04 | 0:33:07 | |
As soon as I hit the water, I felt | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
a really sharp pain, like I'd been winded, but in my back. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
It was like... I just screamed. I was in loads of pain. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:18 | |
I was really shocked when they said I'd broken my back and might need | 0:33:18 | 0:33:22 | |
an operation. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:23 | |
You didn't hit a rock or the bottom of the pool? It was simply | 0:33:23 | 0:33:27 | |
-the force of you hitting the water that broke your back? -The angle | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
-that I went into... -It was simply the angle that you hit the water... | 0:33:31 | 0:33:35 | |
-It was enough to break your back? -Yes. -Wow. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
I don't think it's going to be right for a long time. I've always got to be conscious of it. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:43 | |
And Rachel isn't alone. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:45 | |
Every year, more than 110 people drown after accidentally falling into water in the UK. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:52 | |
But water doesn't have to be deep to be dangerous. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:56 | |
And today, one walker in the Yorkshire Dales is finding that out the hard way. | 0:33:57 | 0:34:02 | |
You can see the stepping stones on that side. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
The casualty turns out to be an elderly rambler, who's taken a tumble off some steping stones. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:10 | |
Afternoon! | 0:34:13 | 0:34:14 | |
All right? | 0:34:14 | 0:34:15 | |
Fellow walkers have pulled him out, but he's too cold and weak to reach the bank. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:19 | |
-What's your name? -Ron. -What you doing in middle of t'river? | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
Trying to get across. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
He fell in the river and I asked the lady if he was OK, then I came across | 0:34:25 | 0:34:30 | |
and he was in the water, so I pulled him out and then another gentleman came and helped. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:36 | |
Where did you fall - this way or that way? | 0:34:36 | 0:34:37 | |
I fell towards there. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:39 | |
The water is fast-flowing, and there are deep pools between the stones. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:45 | |
Have we got a line? | 0:34:45 | 0:34:46 | |
A line! | 0:34:47 | 0:34:49 | |
Thanks to a safety line made from one of the ropes used to tie down | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
the chopper's rotor blades at night, Ron's feeling a little safer. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:57 | |
-Who's your wife? -The one in the blue dress. | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
-That pretty-looking one? -Yes. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
That's it. You're not going anywhere. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
OK, Ron. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:07 | |
Ron's rescuers are taking a real risk, but they've got to get him to dry land. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:12 | |
Just remember you're tethered to me, Ron. | 0:35:12 | 0:35:16 | |
Their patient is exhausted, and they still don't know whether | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
he's injured from his fall. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:21 | |
Back where you started, Ron. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
He's got halfway over, slipped into the river | 0:35:23 | 0:35:26 | |
to just below his waist, so he's severely cold. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:31 | |
Then he's not wanted to go either way, so it's a case of assisting him | 0:35:31 | 0:35:34 | |
back over to this side of the bank. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
Nice and steady...and down. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
He'll be taken for a check-up by land ambulance. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:42 | |
But sadly, there's not always a happy ending. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
It's a sunny day, and hundreds of daytrippers are enjoying the sun at Bolton Abbey, | 0:35:47 | 0:35:52 | |
the waterside beauty spot near Leeds. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
But many of them have become caught up in a life-and-death struggle to save a little boy. | 0:35:55 | 0:36:00 | |
There are two children in the water. They've found one girl. | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
The boy, they believe, is still missing. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:06 | |
Helimed 99 will take just 10 minutes to reach the scene. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:11 | |
The crew know that speed is the only thing that can save the missing boy. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:16 | |
'We've been called to Bolton Abbey, which is a lovely scenic area | 0:36:16 | 0:36:22 | |
'with a river running through it. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:23 | |
'Very popular at this time of year... families barbecue at the side of the river. Obviously, | 0:36:23 | 0:36:31 | |
'people go into the river itself. It's quite strong and fast-flowing in places.' | 0:36:31 | 0:36:36 | |
If he's recovered, paramedics Lee and Ben will use adrenalin to kickstart his heart. | 0:36:36 | 0:36:41 | |
But the doseage is crucial in kids. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
'Ben? | 0:36:44 | 0:36:45 | |
'Yep. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:46 | |
-'Just running through for eight years... For adrenalin - 1 in 10,000 is 2.6. -2.6 mil. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:54 | |
2.6 mil to restart after cardiac arrest. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
Even from 1,000 feet, the desperate race to save the boy is obvious. | 0:36:56 | 0:37:01 | |
'Here we are, here we are. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:02 | |
'Yep. Come back round, Steve. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
'There's still a lot of people in the water - can you see them? | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
-'About there? -Yeah. | 0:37:10 | 0:37:13 | |
-'You see the corner? -Yeah. -We want to be in there somewhere. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
'There's a barricade of people there.' | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
But pilot Steve faces a problem. Crowds are getting in the way of his best landing site. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:26 | |
-'That's OK this side. -Yeah. -OK. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
'Put us down there, mate, yeah.' | 0:37:29 | 0:37:32 | |
Police have already taken control of the rescue. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:35 | |
There's plenty of the public looking. Um... | 0:37:35 | 0:37:39 | |
Until we find him, there's not really much for you lads to do. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:43 | |
This stretch of the River Wharfe is dangerous. Many people | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
have drowned here, but hundreds continue to swim, despite the warnings. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:52 | |
We're still looking at the moment. It's been 20 minutes gone, apparently. ..All right. OK. Thanks. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:58 | |
Bye. Bye. | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
The boy is just eight. He was here with his family celebrating his birthday. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:05 | |
It is 20 minutes since he vanished beneath the surface. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
The team know there is still hope. | 0:38:08 | 0:38:11 | |
Children can be revived after long periods underwater, | 0:38:11 | 0:38:14 | |
especially if it's cold. | 0:38:14 | 0:38:16 | |
We're just getting stripped off a little bit. It obviously gets really warm. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:21 | |
Um... | 0:38:21 | 0:38:23 | |
Then we're going to put life jackets on. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
Obviously, we're working near water here... | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
Our own safety is important. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
The team are borrowing a heat-seeking camera from the fire brigade. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:37 | |
It's hoped they can spot a trace of the boy from the air. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:41 | |
I'll just have a check up the river, further downstream | 0:38:41 | 0:38:44 | |
where there's a natural barrier - there are some steps across. | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
We've got a thermal-imaging device. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:51 | |
Great stuff. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:52 | |
If we spot anything, we'll try and use that to see if we can see anything. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
'Keep going... I think there are police down here anyway.' | 0:38:57 | 0:39:01 | |
But it is a hopeless task. The police and fire service rescue teams offer the best hope of rescue, | 0:39:01 | 0:39:07 | |
but they desperately need divers. | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
At last they arrive. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
The local cave-rescue team are experts in this kind of rescue. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
All the rescue services are here. We've been searching now for a long time, I think plus 60 minutes. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:22 | |
I was here myself only last week with my own children, as it was hot weather, playing in the water. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:29 | |
Sad all round, at the moment. As time goes on, the outcome doesn't look any better. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:35 | |
Despite frantic searching, there's no sign of the boy. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:40 | |
It's been more than two hours, and hope is running out. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
Both Lee and Ben are dads themselves. They know what the boy's parents are going through, | 0:39:44 | 0:39:50 | |
but they also know time's run out. As the chopper lifts off, the boy is found, but it's too late. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:55 | |
Another victim of Yorkshire's wild water. | 0:39:55 | 0:39:59 | |
Do you remember the man whose leg had to be amputated after a farm accident? How's he getting on? | 0:40:02 | 0:40:07 | |
23-year-old Jason Winspear's leg was removed by a flying doctor | 0:40:07 | 0:40:13 | |
after a terrible accident with a combine harvester. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:16 | |
It was flown with him to hospital in Middlesbrough. Surgeons think there is a chance they can reattach it. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:23 | |
He then undergoes 10 hours of surgery. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:27 | |
It's 10 days since Jason's accident. His fiancee has stayed with him in hospital the whole time. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:35 | |
They tried to save my foot - that's why I was in theatre so long. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:42 | |
I were in for eight hours. | 0:40:42 | 0:40:43 | |
They tried to put my foot back on, but it was going to be too short. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:49 | |
A lot too short. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:50 | |
It got chewed up. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
And it also got the stage where it had been a bit long by the time I got into theatre. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:59 | |
It was too late. | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
I daren't look at it. I've seen a photograph of it, and it's... I get distressed when I see it. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:09 | |
I daren't look at it, itself. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
..Cos it's not nice. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
They've done a very good job of it. It's really tidy and... | 0:41:14 | 0:41:19 | |
clean and... | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
The surgeons have done a really good job. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
Jason still has vivid memories of the accident. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
The machine got blocked up. Looking into it, you couldn't see | 0:41:27 | 0:41:31 | |
it was coming towards you, it was only coming slowly. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:34 | |
The next minute, the chains grabbed hold of my leg and pulled me into the knife and cut it straight off. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:40 | |
When I got here, he'd just landed in A&E, and I came in to see his leg in his welly, | 0:41:40 | 0:41:45 | |
by his bed, and I was like, "That is not a cut." I couldn't stop crying. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:49 | |
Then I got it together and saw you off before you went into theatre. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:54 | |
By the time spring comes to the North York Moors, | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
Jason's back on two legs and up for a walk down to the village, | 0:41:58 | 0:42:02 | |
even if his wedding is still a few months off. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
He made remarkable progress, thanks to his new limb. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:09 | |
You start off with a basic leg, just to get you walking about. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:12 | |
After a while, they gave me a better one, a better ankle | 0:42:12 | 0:42:17 | |
-for walking over rough terrain. -That's what you've always done and what you want to continue doing? | 0:42:17 | 0:42:23 | |
Yep. I want to get back to work as soon as possible, and get back to normal. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:27 | |
-You're looking at that as a realistic option in the near future, aren't you? -Yes. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:33 | |
-I want to go back as soon as possible. -You're not letting this stop you. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
When Helicopter Heroes comes back, | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
there's a dramatic mountain rescue after a climber falls 40 feet. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
Nice and steady, nice and slow... | 0:42:44 | 0:42:47 | |
Snow ruins a family Christmas as Grandma is flown to hospital. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:52 | |
It's either find their own transport or thumb a lift from Father Christmas. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:57 | |
There's a dash to save the driver of a car that's plunged into a canal. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:02 | |
No sign of any person, still investigating. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
And a tot is burned by a mug of hot chocolate. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
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