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Busy day for Greenlea helicopter

The Taupo Based Greenlea Rescue helicopter was dispatched to a rural area near Otorohanga yesterday to a woman who had injured herself riding a motorcycle. The woman in her thirties was taken to Waikato Hospital.

On the return flight to Taupo the helicopter was diverted to a woman who had fallen from her mountain bike on a trail around the western bays of Lake Taupo. The crash happened only several hundred meters from where the track meets the lake at a secluded bay, inaccessible other than by boat or helicopter.

The helicopter was able to hover unload a medic and a search and rescue team on the beach who recovered the woman back to the beach before she was hover loaded back into the helicopter for the flight to rotorua Hospital.

Later in the evening the Greenlea elicopter was tasked to perform an urgent transfer of a patient with a serious medical emergency to Middlemore hospital.

Philips Search and Rescue Trust is a charitable organisation, operating rescue helicopters throughout the Central North Island. Philips Search and Rescue Trust relies on support from principal sponsors and community donations. Special thanks to Taupo's principal sponsor, Greenlea. This crucial financial support ensures our rescue helicopters can continue to bring life-saving equipment, rescue personnel and trauma-trained medics directly to the patient. For further information about PSRT visit our website http://rescue.org.nz.

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