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If you're seriously ill or critically injured up here, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
your life is in real danger. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
Complaining of severe pain. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
Mid-thirties, been ejected from a vehicle. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
Hospital's an hour away by road | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
and speed is the only thing that can save you. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Yeah, Roger. Helimed 99's en route to you, over. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance and its highly trained paramedics | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
are scrambled 1,000 times a year. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
-Tell me exactly what's happened. -A small child was on the path. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
A wagon's cut the corner and run over him. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
Many of its ex-military pilots flew the SAS into action. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:36 | |
That's not a suitable landing site, this one here is. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Welcome to the life-and-death world of the Helicopter Heroes. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
Today on Helicopter Heroes... | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
'I'm in a field in a ditch. I've crashed through a hedge. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
'I'm stuck in the cockpit of a glider.' | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
A glider pilot crashes but the team can't find him. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:16 | |
A boiling hot day so he'll be hot, let alone in pain. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
A young cyclist has a terrible accident. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
We've come down for a bit of fun and it's ended in a bit of tragedy. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
The Romans are back | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
and there's a legion of problems for the Helimed team. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Four casualties at this time, over. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
And boys will be boys but paramedics have to pick up the pieces. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
He fell on a rock and I fell on top of him and squashed his chest. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
How's this for a thrill? | 0:01:46 | 0:01:47 | |
We're soaring like a bird with no engine to keep us in the sky. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
Gliding is as near as you can get to growing wings. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:55 | |
We're soaring on invisible currents of warm air | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
but this is a sport that has its dangers too, | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
as one pilot found out this summer. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
The sky over the Vale of York | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
is one of the UK's busiest pieces of airspace | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
and today it's even more crowded than usual. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
The airfield at Sutton Bank is the venue | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
for a national gliding competition | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
but there's an emergency. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
It's a glider that's come down somewhere up near Stokesley. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:24 | |
Basic service, Helimed 98. I'll set 2,000 and fly when I'm clear. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:29 | |
Luckily, the Helimed team has a base at Bagby, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
in the shadow of Sutton Bank and its famous white horse. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
Paramedics Tony Wilkes and Paul Kilner | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
are on the way to search for the downed pilot. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
'Ambulance, what's the address of the emergency?' | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
'I don't know. I'm in a field in a ditch. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
'I crashed through a hedge. I'm stuck in the cockpit of the glider. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
'The last I saw, I was 14km roughly north of Carlton.' | 0:02:50 | 0:02:56 | |
Initially, we've got Carlton in Cleveland. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
We were given a grid for that. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
That's almost in Teesside Zone then, really. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
The glider pilot comes from Sussex | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
and isn't familiar with the rolling Cleveland hills | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
where he's come down. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Not a lot of information at the moment except the glider's come down, | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
we think, in a field. Hopefully we'll get updated on the way | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
and get more information sent through. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
Because we are up very high and we might have gliders, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
everyone keep your eyes peeled for them. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
'Have you got GPS in your glider?' | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
-'Yes, I have.' -'You have got GPS.' | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
'I can't reach it. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:32 | |
'Ah! I can't.' | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
'You can't reach it.' | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
He said there's a road north of him in the field | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
so that could be the road. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
Back at Helimed headquarters, flying paramedic Sammy Wills | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
is trying to put herself mentally in his cockpit, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
working out where he may have landed. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
Initial reports from the patient was that he was trapped by his ankle | 0:03:49 | 0:03:54 | |
and the way he described his instruments in the cockpit, | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
they were smashed up around him and some had been thrown out of the cab. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
It's a boiling hot day so just being trapped by the Perspex as well. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
He'll be hot, let alone in pain. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
'Are you actually on a farm?' | 0:04:07 | 0:04:09 | |
'Yeah.' | 0:04:09 | 0:04:10 | |
'So, is there...? How far are the buildings to you?' | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
'I really don't know, I'm in a hedge. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
'I'm right beside a road, a bicycle just went past.' | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
'Can you try and get their attention?' | 0:04:18 | 0:04:21 | |
'No, I can't, because it's a very thick hedge.' | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
On the ground, ambulance crews have joined the rescue operation. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
Pilot Andy Lister used to fly for the police. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
He's used to searching from the air. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
A large, white glider shouldn't be too hard to find. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
Right, I will suggest, even from now we should start | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
peeling our eyes back and having a look for gliders in fields, really. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
Finally, they spot a glider on the edge of the search area. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
Ah, there he is! | 0:04:51 | 0:04:52 | |
Well spotted, mate. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:54 | |
-Yeah, one o'clock? -Yeah. -Got it. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Durham-Tees Radar, Helimed 98 now letting down. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
The puzzle is, this glider doesn't look damaged. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
Perhaps the pilot has freed himself. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
-Doesn't look like there's anyone in it. -No, there isn't. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
-You want me to go on have a look? -If you want, mate. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
It's the wrong glider. | 0:05:11 | 0:05:13 | |
Somewhere in the 200 square miles of search area, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
an injured pilot is still awaiting rescue, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
trapped in his cockpit under a hot summer sun. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
The Helimed team must find him. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
There are some symptoms which ring alarm bells with paramedics. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:43 | |
Among them, a back injury, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:44 | |
when combined with loss of feeling in the legs, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
is probably the most worrying. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
It's a bright summer's day | 0:05:53 | 0:05:54 | |
and the paramedics are en route to Conisbrough near Doncaster. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
Joe Hamshaw has fallen | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
while attempting a massive jump on his mountain bike. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
How you doing, Joe? | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
We were out on our downhill bikes. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
We've come down for a bit of fun and it's ended in a bit of tragedy. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
He hit that jump there, hit it a bit fast, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
gone a bit fast and fell off his bike. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Did you physically see him come off? | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
-Yeah. -Right. What happened? | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
Went over a 20-foot jump and went over the handlebars. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Helimed paramedic Glen Powell finds Joe with a land ambulance crew | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
in the valley bottom and it isn't looking good. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
-What's his pain score now? -Four. -Right. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
Lack of sensation in his plantar reflex. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
-None? -None. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:39 | |
No sensation, movement or anything? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
Joe's dad Steve has arrived. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
He got a phone call and rushed down to try to help his son. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
Yeah, my ex-wife rung me and she says, "Can you get to him, | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
"he's had an accident down at Steetley's." | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
And I found him, like, with the ambulance team, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
who was doing a tremendous job. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
Can I leave you guys to get him on board and everything, yeah? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
Paramedic Glen is very worried. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
Joe doesn't know it, but he may have severed his spinal cord. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
The risk is that he may never walk again. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
He's come down quite a steep gradient, like a one in three or one in four. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
Witnessed by some bystanders who've been cycling in these woods. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
He's flown past them at some speed, taken off on a jump, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
landed it and then gone down and accelerated further | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
and gone over another jump. | 0:07:26 | 0:07:28 | |
He landed wheel-first on his bike, flipped over the handlebars | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
and landed flat on his back doing 30 miles an hour. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
The team needs to get Joe out of the woods quickly | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
but work carefully to ensure there is no further damage | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
to the delicate spinal cord. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
Right, Joe. We're going to move you in a second, buddy. All right, mate? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
Right. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:47 | |
He's pretty experienced. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
He's been doing it a few years now. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
He's a sensible lad normally. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
I think he was a little bit silly coming on his own. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
He's usually a sensible lad but he probably weren't thinking. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
Probably thought it wouldn't happen to him and it has. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
If you got the fire brigade, there's a gate at the top. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
You can cut that open and get down here with an ambulance. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
But there's a problem. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:15 | |
Joe is deep in the woods, | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
hundreds of metres from the nearest road or landing site. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
Pilot Steve Cobb is moving Helimed 98 to get closer to their patient. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:25 | |
It's quite steep out left. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
Is everybody happy going to the left? | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
-Yes. -If anybody is not happy at any time, just say. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Joe's dad is showing the strain. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
He knows his son is very seriously injured. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
It's a hot day and the physical exertion of the climb | 0:08:37 | 0:08:40 | |
out of the woods is affecting him too. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
Little steps. Everybody happy? | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
He's beginning to lag behind. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
For now, all the attention is on his son. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
But that's about to change. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Got a second casualty. There's a guy collapsed! | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
Few jobs have changed as much as those in the ambulance service. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
When many of the Helimed team first put on a uniform, | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
they were simply expected to drive and give first aid. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
Now they can inject drugs previously restricted to doctors | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
and even perform surgical procedures. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
But if you really want to trace medical progress, | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
you have to go back to the days of the UK's first trained medics. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
They conquered Britain nearly 2,000 years ago | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
but now the Romans are back. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
CHEERS | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
These make-believe Romans spend their weekends | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
showing 21st-century Britons what life was like | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
when we were just an outpost of a vast empire. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
These re-enactment groups pride themselves | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
on always staying in character, no matter what happens. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
But today a group of visitors have been badly injured | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
by a stampeding horse. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
It's the sort of accident that could have easily happened back in 55 BC, | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
but the treatment is coming from a very modern flying machine. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
Horses, eh? A big horse event. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
Going to cause even more chaos, aren't we, if we're not careful. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:17 | |
You wouldn't get me on the back of a horse for £1 million. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
Incredibly dangerous things. | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
It's clear this Roman camp has already been invaded | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
by a fleet of modern ambulances. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
Several spectators have been struck by the runaway horse. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Hiya. We've just got one lady here | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
but there's three more over there who might be more injured. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:36 | |
Just making my way around four casualties at this time, over. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
These two guys, I've never seen him yet. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:45 | |
This guy's... | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
-Did you have your leg stood on, mate? -Stood on it, yeah. -Yeah. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
And this lady's got some hip pain. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
Watch your arm, Jean, just going to put this round you. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
I saw this horse running up towards my kids so I tried to grab the rope. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
-Right. -I managed to hold it for a little bit. -Oh, well done! | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
It's jumped over my daughter's head. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
And just pulled me and as I've landed, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
its back legs have landed on my... | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Query possible, one fractured leg and... | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
a lady with minor, minor head injury | 0:11:14 | 0:11:16 | |
and another query, very query dislocated hip and one low back pain. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:22 | |
This bizarre accident happened when the legionnaire's horse | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
came face-to-face with some very modern 21st-century fencing. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
We were watching some Roman centurions | 0:11:31 | 0:11:34 | |
being put through their drill in the field. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
The horse, apparently someone was feeding it grass, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
and it leant over and touched the electric fence and panicked | 0:11:39 | 0:11:44 | |
and cantered in a big circle all the way around, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
jumping people and pushchairs and tents. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
All the legionnaires and gladiators have come to help, | 0:11:51 | 0:11:55 | |
including Richard Berry, who's been doing this re-enactment for years. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
It takes a lot for these groups to step out of character, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
but here everyone's now firmly back in 2011 | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
to help the modern-day medics. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:08 | |
There don't appear to be any serious injuries at this horse event. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:14 | |
Two more ambulances have been requested. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
So we are back online available for further tasking. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
The patient I was dealing with says the horse | 0:12:22 | 0:12:24 | |
jumped over his two children, a two and a four-year-old. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
Could have been a very, very different story. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
So as the Helimed teams soar back into the sky, | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
the re-enactment continues. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
Good shot! | 0:12:40 | 0:12:41 | |
Everything at these events is as it would have been | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
when the legions first set up camp in Britain. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
So much better than the normal javelin. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
But today, the Helimed team aren't yet finished with the first century. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:55 | |
Funnily enough, we're going back to where we where earlier in the day. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
It sounds like somebody at the same event is having a heart attack. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:04 | |
So we're off back up there | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
so that event will have two visits from us in a day, | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
which is fairly intensive. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
They say all roads lead to Rome and pilot Andy Lister's | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
landing back in exactly the same spot they were in just hours earlier. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:22 | |
For paramedic Sammy Wills, things are very familiar. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
I've been here before! | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
You must have deja vu. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:28 | |
Yeah! What's he got now, pain-wise? | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
Not good. He started off at five but I think he's actually getting worse. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:35 | |
Knock, Knock. You wouldn't happen to be Richard, would you? | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
-Are we keeping him on the leads as we're going down? -We are, yeah. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
Earlier in the day, | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
Richard had been in the arena, taking part in a mock battle. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Then he was helping those kicked by the horse. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
Now he's needing urgent treatment for a heart attack. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
-How are you feeling now, Richard? -Pretty rough. -Pretty rough. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
In fact, we'll just pop you back on to the monitor | 0:13:57 | 0:14:00 | |
and then we'll take you down to the aircraft, all right? | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
Our plan, Rich, is to fly you. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
All right? | 0:14:06 | 0:14:07 | |
Of course, in Roman times, Richard wouldn't have stood a chance. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
It's likely this would have quickly lead to death, | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
so today he's happy to leave his centurion character behind | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
for a flight in Helimed 99. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
Yeah, just relocated the patient to the ambulance. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
We're going to drive down, I'll come down and meet with you. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:24 | |
If you could have the defib and the pads on standby, over. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
AMBULANCE BEEPS | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
The gentleman looks really uncomfortable. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:33 | |
He's never actually had a heart attack beforehand | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
but he does suffer from angina. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
He's had quite extensive cardiac surgery. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
The pain's come on while he's been exerting | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
and he's still quite uncomfortable. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
It's fair to say the Helimed paramedics | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
have seen some sights in the back of their helicopter | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
but it's not often you get someone dressed quite like this. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
This is not a dress, it's a tunic. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
You've been re-enacting, haven't you? | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
I've been re-enacting. | 0:14:58 | 0:14:59 | |
So I overdid it in the heat and everything. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:02 | |
In modern-day Britain, medical technology is on Richard's side | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
and he's soon being flown to a specialist cardiac hospital, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
which'll be able to treat whatever is causing his heart to struggle. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:16 | |
And while in Roman times, Richard might have been treated | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
with wine, vinegar or a hot bath, | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
in modern Britain he's able to take full advantage | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
of the latest cardiac treatments. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
I've had stents before in two coronary arteries. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
And they, for some reason, clotted, both at the same time, | 0:15:33 | 0:15:38 | |
which is really quite rare. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
That's why it happened so quickly. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
They said it wasn't because of the exertions and things I was doing. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
They just really don't know and they're looking into it, | 0:15:46 | 0:15:50 | |
why suddenly both of them clotted. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
So it was very touch and go. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
I think I went into VF a couple of times and they shocked me back. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
Although doctors aren't convinced the two emergencies were connected, | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
dealing with a Roman stampede must have put a strain on Richard's heart. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:08 | |
I heard behind me just people running, a lot of noise. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:12 | |
I turned and as I turned, I saw this horse running through the crowd. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
Just then, the horse clipped one of the rope barriers | 0:16:16 | 0:16:21 | |
and I saw it hit this lady on the side of the head. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
She went down very heavily. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
I just shot over there because I thought if the horse comes back, | 0:16:27 | 0:16:32 | |
at least I've got some armour on and I can protect her head, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
and try to protect her that way. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
But no-one expected the helicopter's second visit to the same place. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
And he was certainly an unusual patient to be carried in Helimed 99. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
They've taken the Michael quite a bit. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
Most of my armour was off and that was sent home | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
but I did have my cingulum militare, which is the belt | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
and one of the nurses was walking around | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
with my dagger and my belt on, going, "Look at this." | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
About five times too big for her. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
Then they were taking the knife out and having a good look at that | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
so we've had a laugh. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
It's all gone home now. It's all back home. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
For now, Richard will be just reading about, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
rather than recreating, the Roman Empire. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Now let's get back to the hunt for the glider pilot | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
missing from this airfield in North Yorkshire | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
and it's proving to be a frustrating time for the Helimed team. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
Injured and alone but unable to tell his rescuers where he is, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
all paramedics Tony Wilkes and Paul Kilner know | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
is that their patient desperately needs them. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
We're with a glider in a field at the moment | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
but we've just been told it's not the glider we are seeking. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:03 | |
So we're going to get airborne and search again. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
Somewhere in 200 square miles, he's sitting in his wrecked glider. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:11 | |
'Do you remember seeing the main A172?' | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
'No.' | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
'That's just west of Carlton.' | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
-'I wouldn't have recognised it, I'm afraid.' -'You wouldn't.' | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
'I'm a visitor up here. I know where I am on my map | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
-'but I don't do road numbers or things like that.' -'OK.' | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
But at last, they have a lead. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
The RRB advises that police have eyeballed the patient | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
and he's in Stokesley-Seamer area. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
OK, this location is just north north-west of Stokesley, | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
about four miles. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
-Is that the grid you just put in there? -Yeah. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
He's still on his own in this field, apparently. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
There's cows in it, too, according to that tug aircraft. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
I don't know if we got that last time. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
He's been able to give as much information about what he can see | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
and where he was | 0:18:57 | 0:18:58 | |
and despite that, the incident's now 55 minutes old. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:03 | |
We believe we'll be with him now in the next three or four. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
There it is, on the nose. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
-Hello there. What's your name, sir? -My name's Les Blows. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
-Les? -Yeah. -Hi, Les, I'm Paul. Nice to meet you. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:22 | |
Pilot Les Blows has been trapped in his cockpit for more than an hour. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
No wonder he's pleased to see his rescuers. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
Have you any pain anywhere, as you're sat there? | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
I strongly suspect I've got a bone broken in my ankle. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:36 | |
-Right. -Just this one. I'm perfectly OK elsewhere. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
No other pain. Stay nice and still for us, | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
just don't move your head. Any pain where I'm pressing? | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
-No, my head is fine. -If you take a nice, big, deep breath for me? | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
-How's that? -Yeah, it's OK. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
Just pass me your arm for a moment, let's feel this hand. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
His leg is badly broken. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
The glider has hit a tree stump. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
Let's have a feel of it. You've no pain in your hips? | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
-No pain in my hips. -Nothing in your tummy? | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
No, typical aviator's accident. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
-Nothing on there? -No. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:06 | |
Nothing on there. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
Glider pilots often have to land away from base | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
but this field was harder and shorter than it looked. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
That's right. Just use it to elevate you onto the top. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
I'll support your ankle. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
With no brakes, Les ran out of runway. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
Just let that left foot down. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
I'm going to fall off. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
-You're quite all right. -I am going to fall! | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
Oh, ah! Argh! | 0:20:28 | 0:20:31 | |
No, ow, ow, ow! | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
-Where's most of your pain? -On the side of the shin. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:35 | |
-There's a big swelling. -It's all right, I know. We've seen it. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
What we're going to do is, just listen to us. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:41 | |
You're not going to fall, I promise. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
Paramedic Paul knows the long wait could have complicated Les's injury. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
One of the problems, I guess, | 0:20:49 | 0:20:51 | |
when you find a location like this is everywhere looks the same. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
We were given two or three different grid references | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
and eventually we managed to find this gentleman, which was good | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
because, as you can see, it's quite an isolated place. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
He wouldn't want to be here too much longer, | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
especially with night-time coming and what have you. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
So it was good to find him, yeah. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
Now that Les has been found, | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
the scale of the search for him is obvious. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:15 | |
I am impressed by the amount of emergency services that have turned out for this job. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
I don't think I'm really cut out to be a glider pilot | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
and I'm not sure after seeing an incident like this, it's really the pursuit I want to take up. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
The crash happened barely 50 feet above sea level | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
but even mountain rescue have been called out. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
This isn't wild and inaccessible, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
but it could have been. You just don't know, do you? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:39 | |
You don't know whether it's across a ditch | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
or halfway up a tree. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:43 | |
In those situations, the team's capabilities come into their own. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:48 | |
-Now I feel faint. -It's all right. Just try and relax. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
-Take some nice deep breaths. -Am I going to lie down? | 0:21:51 | 0:21:54 | |
You're OK at the moment. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:55 | |
Les's condition is now beginning to concern his rescuers. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
Is the time he spent trapped in his cockpit under the summer sun | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
catching up with him? | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
Heatstroke is serious and potentially deadly. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
Remember the young cyclist badly injured in an accident | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
in South Yorkshire. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:25 | |
It's a worrying case and it's taking its toll on the victim's father. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:30 | |
Five minutes ago, Steve Hamshaw was trying to help his son | 0:22:31 | 0:22:35 | |
lying paralysed in the woods after a cycling accident. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
We've got a second casualty, there's a guy collapsed. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
Now the Helimed team have two critical patients on their hands. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
Back down the track, Steve has collapsed with a suspected heart attack. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
Helimed crewman Glen Powell is desperate to get ground paramedics to his aid. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
He's collapsed down there. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
I don't know whether that guy has something serious going on. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
He could be having an MI. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
That stretcher and a blue bag is for that guy down there | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
just in case something's kicking off. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
Can I leave land crew to deal with that? Yeah? | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
There's a stretcher there and a blue bag. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
The team's priority has to be Joe. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
He's numb from the neck down. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
Glen and Darren know his dad Steve's getting medical care. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
They want to get Joe to hospital as soon as possible. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:25 | |
At this stage, the lad really does look like he's broke his back, | 0:23:25 | 0:23:29 | |
with possible spinal cord compression, | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
or worse than that, severance. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:34 | |
He's quite a poorly lad. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
Further on? | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
Further on, guys. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:40 | |
There we go. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
He can't feel anything below the diaphragm. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
Joe, tell me when you stop feeling things. I'm just going to tickle you. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
Joe is flown to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:57 | |
Surgeons are waiting to assess his injuries. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
The signs are worrying. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
Joe still has no sensation in his lower body. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:06 | |
A land ambulance is now taking Joe's dad, Steve, to Doncaster Royal Infirmary. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
His dad's life hangs in the balance | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
and it's uncertain if Joe will ever walk again. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
Significantly, he's got no feeling at all below his diaphragm. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
For the future, | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
if that's a permanent situation that he's in, he may not be able to walk. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:27 | |
He can move his arms OK, | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
and he can breathe OK, | 0:24:29 | 0:24:30 | |
but we're concerned that at the moment | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
he has no feeling below his diaphragm. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
A few weeks later and there's good news for one of the patients. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:42 | |
Steve is recovering at home from what was a serious heart attack, | 0:24:42 | 0:24:46 | |
probably brought on by the strain of his son's injury. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
Got these chest pains, fortunately there was a paramedic there. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
She said you don't look very well. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
I said I didn't feel it. She asked me what was the matter. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
I said I'd got chest pains. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
I had this spray, which I use. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
She told me to use it and sit down and not move. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:08 | |
The air ambulance people carried on with Joe | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
to get him to hospital as quickly as they could. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
Meanwhile, they sent for a stretcher for me | 0:25:16 | 0:25:18 | |
and they took me to the ambulance they had parked on the roadside. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
They put me on the ECG machine and it must have been all over the place | 0:25:21 | 0:25:28 | |
and they said, "You must go to hospital as well." | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
Today in Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
Steve is visiting Joe for the first time, | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
a patient with a different but just as remarkable story of survival against the odds. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:41 | |
We'll be able to have some proper beer soon. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
He's out of intensive care, but still has no sensation in his legs. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:50 | |
His future remains uncertain, but the memories of that tragic day in the woods are crystal clear. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
Trying out a new jump I had done the day before. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
I was doing it successfully. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:03 | |
I did it on the day of the accident | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
and I just went over the handlebars | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
and I thought I was dead. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:12 | |
For mum, Denise, it's been an unbelievably tough few weeks. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
Following the accident, Joe's lungs collapsed | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
and he spent much of his time under sedation. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
I have been here every single day with him. I've been through everything with him. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:27 | |
I've cried a million tears and now we're just starting to laugh, | 0:26:27 | 0:26:30 | |
thank God, because he's talking. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
He's being cheeky and is giving me orders now, | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
so I know he's getting a bit better, telling me what I've got to buy! | 0:26:36 | 0:26:42 | |
Three months later, and Joe is slowly working towards regaining his independence. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:49 | |
He is now even allowed home for weekend visits. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
His family have been alongside him all the way. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
They've been keeping me soldiering on. When I've had down days, they've been here to support me. | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
Some days I have my happy days | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
and I have my depressed days. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:08 | |
Physiotherapists are working to help Joe with his mobility. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
It's a slow process but progress is being made. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:16 | |
And relax... And down again. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
All they're basically saying, "Is left toe going down?" and they were doing it. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:27 | |
Or else they were moving my knee as well to command. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:30 | |
But it's a great feeling when I could do that. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
It was a day when by terrible coincidence, father and son could both have died. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:40 | |
But for this family, survival alone is a reason to be optimistic. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
Boys will be boys, that's what my mum used to say! | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
But a teenage sense of adventure can certainly land you in trouble. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:58 | |
Often, it's the Helimed team who are expected to pick up the pieces. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:03 | |
The lakes and reservoirs of the Dales make sure the taps never run dry in Yorkshire's big cities. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
They store the Pennine rain and release it when it's needed. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:14 | |
But they're also a playground for the young and the adventurous. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
But when things go wrong, the Helimed team are often needed to rescue the casualties. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:25 | |
We've got some people on the path. It's not them, no. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
-Might be interesting. -It looks like it is, actually. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:33 | |
Could be down there. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
Two o'clock or three now. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 | |
14-year-old Samuel Barker has been thrown over his handlebars | 0:28:37 | 0:28:41 | |
while cycling around a reservoir near Todmorden in West Yorkshire. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:47 | |
OK, just opening the door. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
The reservoir is surrounded by steep embankments | 0:28:51 | 0:28:54 | |
so pilot, Steve, is forced to land some way from the injured teenager. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:59 | |
I tried bunny hopping over a puddle and my forks just came off. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:03 | |
Disappeared underneath you? | 0:29:03 | 0:29:05 | |
-And I just face-landed. -Cool, did you have a helmet on? | 0:29:05 | 0:29:09 | |
-Erm...no. -Next question is, why? | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
-Er... -Let's have a proper look at you. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:15 | |
Samuel was cycling with friends when the accident happened. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:18 | |
Fortunately, they were able to call for help and keep him warm until the chopper arrived. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:23 | |
He gave me his phone and I rang his dad and he came as soon as he could. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:28 | |
We've just sat with him and wrapped him up in jumpers. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:32 | |
It's really important we keep your head and neck in the same position. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
Samuel landed face first and is in a lot of pain. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:39 | |
James is keen to minimise his discomfort with a shot of morphine. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:42 | |
Sam, however, has other ideas. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:44 | |
Do not inject me. Don't inject me. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:47 | |
I've not got anything in my hands. Let's talk about it first. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
-You're going to need one anyway. -No, I'm not having an injection. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:55 | |
-OK, why's that? -I'm really scared of needles. -Are you? OK. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:59 | |
A broken front fork was the cause of the accident. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:03 | |
It happened in the middle of nowhere. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
But Samuel still had Dad to comfort him. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:09 | |
He rode up on the family quad bike and is about to come in very useful. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
We are going to reposition. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:15 | |
Really steady, that's great. | 0:30:15 | 0:30:18 | |
Give us a smile, you're on the back of the bike. | 0:30:18 | 0:30:22 | |
We're doing grand, actually. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:24 | |
He is being remarkably chipper, considering he landed on his face. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:29 | |
We just need to get his face looked at and, obviously, | 0:30:29 | 0:30:32 | |
any head injury we need to observe for a period of time. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
Another lesson of why to wear a helmet when you are on a pushbike. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:40 | |
Does that mean I am going to be in hospital for a day? | 0:30:40 | 0:30:43 | |
Just an afternoon probably. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
He may be nervous about needles, | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
but fortunately, he has no fear of flying. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
It turns out he is, in fact, a helicopter enthusiast who, one day, wants to become a chopper pilot. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:55 | |
Is it a Jet Ranger? | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
Not a Jet Ranger, MD902 Explorer. | 0:30:57 | 0:30:59 | |
-Has it got a jet engine? -A what? | 0:30:59 | 0:31:03 | |
-Has it got a jet engine? -Two jet engines. | 0:31:03 | 0:31:06 | |
Samuel is about to take off for Leeds General Infirmary | 0:31:06 | 0:31:09 | |
where doctors will X-ray and scan him. | 0:31:09 | 0:31:13 | |
The wounds to his cheek and eye needed 13 stitches. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:18 | |
He is now cycling again, but will always wear a helmet. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
Children are often hurt in strange ways and in the most unusual of circumstances. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:29 | |
It's May, and the Helimed team are en route to Thorne near Doncaster. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:36 | |
On the map, there is a mast just beyond the target. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
Two young lads have injured themselves while riding a quad bike on farmland. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:44 | |
Just an update. Two patients, one walking wounded. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:49 | |
The other, a 14-year-old male is unconscious. Over. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:53 | |
The boys were out enjoying themselves when they drove straight into a hidden hole, | 0:31:53 | 0:31:57 | |
catapulting them from the quad. | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
Only one of them was wearing a helmet. | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
Land paramedics have managed to get to the injured boys on foot | 0:32:02 | 0:32:06 | |
and a worried mum has arrived in a four-wheel-drive. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:09 | |
No obvious injuries. There is nothing obvious that I can see. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
Collar's on, 100% oxygen and just been keeping an eye on him. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:17 | |
With quad accidents, the rider is often thrown clear of the bike. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
It is then down to chance what they collide with. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
All right, mate. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
Medic 2 to Medic 1. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
Rear-seat passenger Todd has been unfortunate. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:34 | |
When he was thrown forwards, he hit his head on the back of his friend Matt's helmet. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:39 | |
Let's get him. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:40 | |
-All right, Todd, good lad. -That's it, mate. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:44 | |
Paramedics Tony and Al are concerned. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
Todd is drifting in and out of consciousness | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
and has also been vomiting. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:52 | |
These symptoms point towards the possibility of a serious head injury. | 0:32:52 | 0:32:57 | |
Open your eyes for us, Todd. Don't move for us, mate. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:01 | |
Ready, steady, move. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
-Get his head up. That's smashing. -Ready, steady, move. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
That's it. Lovely. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:10 | |
Todd's mum is understandably terrified. | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
She will travel in the chopper with her son to hospital. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
Todd's friend Matt is conscious, but will travel by land to Doncaster Royal Infirmary to be checked out. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:23 | |
Can you open your eyes for us, Todd? | 0:33:23 | 0:33:25 | |
Ey-up, matey. All right? | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
Can you talk to us? | 0:33:27 | 0:33:29 | |
Leeds General Infirmary isn't the closest hospital, | 0:33:29 | 0:33:32 | |
but with a specialist neurological ward, it is the right place to treat Todd's head injuries. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:37 | |
It's Tony, the paramedic off the air ambulance. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:42 | |
We're going to be bringing in a 14-year-old to you shortly. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
He's been on the rear seat of a quad bike. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
They've been thrown off the quad bike. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
He's gone through the air about 10 to 15 feet. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
With Mum on board, the chopper takes off for a 15-minute flight to the LGI. | 0:33:53 | 0:33:59 | |
Here, doctors will be waiting to examine Todd | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
and a CAT scan will determine the extent of his head injuries. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:06 | |
A few days later and Todd is still in the Leeds General Infirmary. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
For him, the accident is a hazy memory. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
For his mum however, it's a day she'll never forget. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:16 | |
I got a mobile call from Matthew | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
and he said that he had fallen off a bike and he couldn't wake Todd up. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:23 | |
That he'd had an accident. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
I actually asked him if he was joking. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:27 | |
I thought he might just be kidding. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
But he said no and he told us where he was. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:33 | |
So I jumped in the car and went down. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
Matt was crying, he was really upset. Todd was just out cold on the floor. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
He was just laid there, just lifeless. | 0:34:40 | 0:34:43 | |
It was really, really scary. | 0:34:43 | 0:34:45 | |
I just remember waking up in a bed | 0:34:45 | 0:34:49 | |
down that corridor somewhere. | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
That's all I can remember. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:54 | |
Amazingly, both Matt and Todd escaped with no major injuries. | 0:34:54 | 0:34:59 | |
But Todd came off worst and he learnt a big lesson that day. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:04 | |
If I ever go riding again, I'll wear my helmet. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:07 | |
If you're thinking of not wearing a helmet, wear it. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:11 | |
If you don't wear a helmet, you could end up like me. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
He's lucky to be alive. I really do believe that. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:17 | |
Anthropologists reckon that learning to take risks is what helped | 0:35:17 | 0:35:21 | |
humans conquer the Earth. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
You and me may see danger, | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
but daredevil teenagers just see an opportunity for fun. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
Even in today's world of games consoles, iPods | 0:35:29 | 0:35:33 | |
and smartphones, some childhood favourites remain timeless. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
There are ways of having fun | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
and hurting yourself which have been around for generations. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:44 | |
Did they say they were in the woods? | 0:35:44 | 0:35:46 | |
It's a rope swing, so I would've thought it would be across a tree... | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
Only a few miles from the Helimed air base, 13-year-old Callum Fisher has injured himself. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:54 | |
His friends say he was unconscious for a few minutes | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
and complaining just of the pain in his jaw from where his mouth hit... | 0:35:58 | 0:36:03 | |
Callum was playing with his brother when things went wrong. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:07 | |
I were on the swing and my brother Callum held onto my legs. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:11 | |
As we swung, Callum let go and grabbed my ankles | 0:36:11 | 0:36:14 | |
so my hands slipped off the tree. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
He fell on a rock and I fell on top of him. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
And I squashed his chest. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:20 | |
Luckily, Callum's brother is a first aider and he knew what to do. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:25 | |
Well, we put him in t'recovery position. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:27 | |
He stood up, fell on t'floor, and then we went to go call for help. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:31 | |
Rung ambulance and, fortunately, saw these guys over here who helped us. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:37 | |
Have you got any loose teeth at all? | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
Yes, here... | 0:36:40 | 0:36:41 | |
All knocked out, I think. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
Right. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
Try and get your head nice and still. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:47 | |
Now this might support your jaw a bit. | 0:36:47 | 0:36:50 | |
And then it will actually help with the pain a bit. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
All right? There you go. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 | |
Do us a favour and just look at me. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
Open your eyes and look at me. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
Callum's dad is shocked, but not necessarily surprised. | 0:37:01 | 0:37:04 | |
With a house full of kids, it seems it is not the first time | 0:37:04 | 0:37:07 | |
they have got themselves into bother. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:10 | |
We have four children, four boys and one girl... | 0:37:10 | 0:37:14 | |
Three boys and one girl. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
He is the youngest of the boys and is a typical lad. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:19 | |
What can I say? | 0:37:19 | 0:37:21 | |
Nice and steady. | 0:37:21 | 0:37:23 | |
We'll get you on here. OK? | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
What we'll do first, keep you nice and still, bring that leg forward... | 0:37:25 | 0:37:30 | |
OK. All right. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
With Callum immobilised in case of a spinal injury, | 0:37:33 | 0:37:37 | |
he is transported out of the woods into the waiting chopper. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:41 | |
RADIO CONVERSATION | 0:37:41 | 0:37:44 | |
It turns out that Callum has broken his jaw which needs to be | 0:37:50 | 0:37:54 | |
reconstructed with two titanium plates and eight screws. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:59 | |
It's a good job younger patients like him also heal more quickly. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:04 | |
Boys being boys there and paying the price. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
Let's return to the case of the glider pilot whose crash landing | 0:38:09 | 0:38:13 | |
in North Yorkshire sparked a major rescue operation. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:17 | |
An hour-long search for the missing aviator has finally ended in a farmer's field. | 0:38:17 | 0:38:21 | |
Les Blow's glider was badly damaged | 0:38:21 | 0:38:25 | |
when he hit a tree stump after misjudging a landing run. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
At 6,000 feet... | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
On the way here, we came across another glider, what are the chances of that? | 0:38:31 | 0:38:36 | |
Apart from a broken leg, he seems uninjured, | 0:38:36 | 0:38:40 | |
but paramedics Paul and Tony were concerned | 0:38:40 | 0:38:43 | |
that his wait for help in the hot sun may have had other effects. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:47 | |
But Les has improved now he has been given painkillers. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:50 | |
I belong to Southdown Gliding Club in Sussex. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:53 | |
I'm up here on a gliding competition, | 0:38:53 | 0:38:57 | |
which has been loads of fun up until now. | 0:38:57 | 0:38:59 | |
A car went past here to the farm and didn't see me. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
A horse box went by. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:04 | |
The cows didn't care about me. | 0:39:05 | 0:39:08 | |
It was a passing farmworker who finally discovered Les. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:13 | |
They were going past in the tractor | 0:39:13 | 0:39:15 | |
and the tractor is tall enough to see over the hedge. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:19 | |
He was smart enough to think, "That doesn't look right". | 0:39:19 | 0:39:22 | |
Luckily, he came and rescued me. | 0:39:22 | 0:39:25 | |
Fortunately, he knew exactly where he was so, finally, we could tell you where I was. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:31 | |
They're keeping a close eye on Les. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
But his wife's about to get a nasty shock. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:37 | |
The helicopter had trouble finding me. Air ambulance... | 0:39:37 | 0:39:42 | |
"Darling, I've crashed," isn't the sort of call she expected to receive. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:47 | |
They got me out and then just given me some morphine for my ankle. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:51 | |
And that's all I know really. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:54 | |
It's a hot day and Les is going to be cooler travelling in an air-conditioned ambulance | 0:39:55 | 0:40:00 | |
rather than the overheated cabin of the helicopter. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
Even the pluckiest pilot may be concerned about taking | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
another flight on the same day as a crash. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
He had no chest or abdominal injuries, | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
no pelvic or long bone injuries. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
Most of his pain was in his left ankle. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
Quite a swelling on there so it looked like, potentially, | 0:40:17 | 0:40:20 | |
his fibula and his tibia may have dislocated and fractured. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
He had movement in there and had a pulse there. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:27 | |
So we basically reduced it slightly to help with the pain | 0:40:27 | 0:40:29 | |
and put that in a splint. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:31 | |
As you can see, we're just transporting him | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
into an ambulance down to James Cook Hospital. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:37 | |
The next day, Les undergoes surgery on his leg. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:43 | |
Metal pins are put into his ankle. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
He should recover completely in time. But he's unlikely to forget that flight. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:49 | |
It was the latest start of the day. I think it was about two o'clock when we departed. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:54 | |
I flew from Sutton Bank east to a stupendous sea breeze front | 0:40:54 | 0:41:02 | |
which is an amazing cloud formation coming in from the sea. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
Very exciting flying at about 6,000 feet, it was just wonderful. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:10 | |
I flew all the way north up that front. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:13 | |
As I came back west along the south of Middlesbrough, I just got lower and lower | 0:41:15 | 0:41:20 | |
and I couldn't find anywhere. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:23 | |
And so, eventually, I just had to land. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
Nothing was going to rescue me. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:29 | |
I might have got away with it if there weren't a huge trunk of hawthorn in the hedge | 0:41:29 | 0:41:34 | |
which then went and penetrated the front of my fuselage | 0:41:34 | 0:41:37 | |
which is, of course, right where my feet are and did the injury to my leg. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:43 | |
Les has written books on gliding and he's pulled off many | 0:41:43 | 0:41:47 | |
safe landings in farmers' fields. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:50 | |
His accident was due to a freak misjudgment, | 0:41:50 | 0:41:52 | |
but he knows injuries like his have ended many a flying career. | 0:41:52 | 0:41:57 | |
Because I'm a senior instructor, I've noticed in others, | 0:41:57 | 0:42:03 | |
the way they dealt with, or not, this kind of psychological trauma. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:07 | |
Some just walk away and say, "No thanks, I'm not doing that again." | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
Others might bounce straight back the next day, get another glider | 0:42:10 | 0:42:15 | |
and off they go as if they've not been touched. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
And I'm pleased to say he has no plans to give up flying. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
He reckons there is no thrill like soaring up here. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:24 | |
And I can't say I blame him. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
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