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Two Rescues for Wellington based Westpac Chopper
Two Rescues for Wellington based Westpac Rescue Helicopter
The Wellington-based Westpac Rescue
Helicopter has rescued a man suffering from a heart attack
and another man who got hit by a tree branch today.
Around 11am this morning the helicopter team was called
to the Kaitoke Regional Park area in Upper Hutt to rescue a
63 year old Lower Hutt man who was began suffering from
severe chest pains while on a tramp. The man was with a
group that walked in for a few hour bush walk. About 30
minutes into the tramp the man began suffering severe chest
pains. A member of the group walked out to get cell phone
reception and raised the alarm.
The helicopter was
initially unavailable to respond to the mission so a
Wellington Free Ambulance road crew walked up the track and
found the man.
"A few minutes after the road crew
arrived on the scene we were overhead and able to winch our
WFA paramedic down to the sick man" says Dave Greenberg,
Westpac Rescue Helicopter crewman. "In the end we were
fortunate that the ambulance crew reached the man first
because they were able to talk us into the area using their
portable radio".
Our Wellington Free winched trained
paramedic was winched down amongst trees and then he and the
patient were both winched back into the helicopter.
The man was transported to Wellington Hospital Emergency
Department with a suspected heart attack. He is expected to
be admitted.
About 1:15pm the Westpac Rescue
Helicopter was called to the Tuturumuri area, South of
Martinborough, in the Wairarapa. Initial information was
that a man was struck by a falling tree on a property in the
area.
The helicopter arrived around the same time as
a Wairarapa Ambulance, the local fire brigade and
police.
The teams found a 75 year old man who had been
struck by a falling branch while working on a tree. The man
was knocked unconscious for a short time and is suffering
from several injuries including a suspected spinal injury.
The man was transported to Wellington Hospital Emergency
Department where he is currently being treated and
assessed.
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