Multi tasking

Predictably the hot weather has brought in a spate of calls, but today I found myself being pulled in two different directions as we had a call to a guy going hypoglycaemic being brought in by the lifeboat and 1 minute after being tasked to that had another call to the next town for chest pains on the beach.

As I live in town anyway I radioed in and said that I'd head down to the local beach for the hypo guy leaving the vehicle to fight its way through the holiday traffic with blue lights. As I don't have blue lights or sirens, getting through the pedestrianised area is a slow matter and I managed to pick the one road where the horse and carriage ride was travelling.

John the horse man saw me behind him and grinned and shrugged at me, he couldn't go any faster through the people and even if he pulled to one side I reckoned that he'd make better progress and was content to drive behind him for a bit and let him part the pedestrians.

The guy was quite poorly and slipping in and out of consciousness, I ferried the ambulance crews down to him and Matt the harbourmaster had the bright idea of transferring him from his boat into the lifeboat and putting the lifeboat onto its trailer to bring him back up the beach.

Unfortunately this meant wading out to help lift him from one boat to another.

We got him to the top and lifted him onto the ambulance trolley and left him to the ambulance crew.

We got back to the station to see the vehicle back from the other job and squelched through the door - Mike the station officer took one look at us wet to the waist and leaking seawater from our boots and said "Yes! We picked the right job!"