This isn't a question or anything - just telling you about an upsetting thing that happened on Friday.- whilst walking our dogs.

Hubby and I took our 4 dogs to our local moor for their walk about 4 pm.  On the way to the moor we have to drive down a road before heading off down a private road and we noticed  two ambulances parked haphazardly at a particular house where  there were various vans parked and building stuff in front garden.  The front door was open and there was a man standing in the front garden looking shocked.  We drove on to the moor and the dogs had a good run as usual.  Then we saw overhead the Air Ambulance circling obviously looking for somwhere to land.  We quickly clipped our dogs back on their leads as the helicoptor landed on the moor quite close to where we were .  An ordinary ambulance drew up and a paramedic appeared carrying  a small child wrapped in blankets,  followed by I assume his mother who got into the helicopter.  Then it took off.  Putting 2 and 2 together we felt it must have been something to do to with the 2 ambulances we had seen just down the road.  I know that these days they do not deploy the Air Ambulance for anything less than critical because of lack of funding.  I have never seen the Air Ambulance land on our local moor  before.

It was all very sobering and I just hope the little soul is recovering - you feel so helpless when you witness something like this.  I wonder if the child had suffered some accident as a result of the building work being carried out ..... just don't know.

Have felt quite upset since - just writing this to tell someone I guess.  Hopefully I will hear some sort of outcome maybe from the local paper.

Snowflake

reminds me of when I sit in motorway queues and people ar emoaning about the dealy.....errrr.....its not YOU IN THAT PILEUP....be grateful!! Always  humbles me when I see air ambulances etc....and seen rather too many over the years Ive been involved with horses

Every time I see an ambulance I'm grateful not to be in it, hope that it isn't anyone I know and who ever it is will be ok

I was at school with a girl that would make the sign of a cross on herself every time she saw or heard some tragic news.  She'd say "Touch me 'ead, touch me knee, thank God it wern't me".  I often think of her in these type of sad circumstances  - I never asked her where it came from but I recall she always said it when she saw or heard an ambulance - seems appropriate. 

I'm sure something like that will be in your local paper. Keep your eyes peeled and hopefully it will tell you that the little tot is recovering well.

How upsetting. I'm not so sure about the air ambulance not being deployed for anythnig less that critical though, that's not the case for my area. They had the air ambulance out to someone who had fainted in town the other day!

My brother in law had to have the air ambulance out when he fell over in a country park and it was somewhere down a slope that a normal ambulance couldn't get to. He'd broken his ankle I think it was, so serious but not critical!

I think the Air Ambulance is a god send and saved my Dad's life as he was airlifted to hospital when he had his stroke. If he had gone via normal ambulance due to the time he was laid on the floor before he was discovered he may have died. It gave him another 10 years of life.

About a year ago the air ambulance landed in the viilage. A yound toddler had been crushed by a wall made out of old flgg stones. Unfortunately the little girl didn't make it

At the yearly regatta on our sea front there was a horrific accident involving a man and a speed boat, the air ambulance came and after a long time went without the man, it turned out the man had died of the injuries at the scene, we all thought he was ok when they went without him but then someone stated the obvious that air ambulance only take live casualtys. It was horrible to witness and his parents were watching as well as they had come to see him race.

Finger crossed for the child.

We have the air ambulance "on standby" at least four times every month - the island does get cut off by the Strood at high tide every so often and then it is necessary to have the air ambulance available to get anyone who needs urgent hospitl treatment.

We also get a fire engine + crew located to the island then as well

The thing is with the fainting incident is I suppose the people who phoned 999 were not to know that it was just a fainting incident and could of thought a person was having a heart attack etc. so that is why a helicopter is deployed. 

Perhaps first aid training should be compulsaryin school.
We never know when we are going to be faced with an incident..........Or indeed be in need of first aid ourselves.

Karen

Perhaps first aid training should be compulsaryin school.

I've always thought that too!   It wouldn't take much time - perhaps one lesson each term after initial training.  It could save so many lives.