SOS Extreme Rescues Season 2 Episode 4

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00:01This is Errori, a breathtaking part of North Wales

00:05that draws visitors in their millions.

00:09But this wild landscape can also hold dangers.

00:15And when things go wrong,

00:17the busiest network of rescue agencies in the country

00:21must come together.

00:25We found this female.

00:27Saving lives.

00:28I like it down there.

00:30In a landscape like no other.

00:34That's a proper job there.

00:52Multi-agency response is usually one where there's a lot of dynamics going on,

00:57a lot of things need organising, a lot of things need sorting out.

01:00Is it coming?

01:05Communication and teamwork are at the heart of how Errori's rescuers collaborate.

01:10You could just follow just behind us?

01:12Yeah, of course, yeah.

01:14There really is this sense of connection and community between all of these agencies.

01:20We start to train together and come up with ideas of how best to use our tools and our skills.

01:26And in the rare event of a major incident, the teams must work hand in hand, sometimes in unpredictable situations.

01:33You can't always be sure what you're dealing with. Acting quickly can quite often make the difference between somebody surviving an incident or not.

01:43or not?

01:52Hello, please.

01:53Hi, it's Five Thirdest. Can I let you know of an incident, please?

01:56A gas canister has exploded, setting fire to a boat in Porth Penryn near Bangor, a busy harbour close to shops and homes.

02:19There's a flame here.

02:25Members of the public call 999, and North Wales Fire and Rescue take the lead.

02:33When it popped up on the screen, I read explosion, fire, and I thought to myself, well, this is a pretty good exercise.

02:41And then my phone rang, and that's when I realised, yeah, this is for real.

02:49There's the incident commander, all the things that are going through my mind are the fire engine to deal with the fire.

02:57I'm very much aware that there's other boats in the area, there's lots of people in the area as well.

03:02Emergency teams from across North Wales are scrambled.

03:08Police are called in to call them off the scene.

03:11Responding to major incidents can be extremely chaotic.

03:16We did see people make into the area to observe what was going on, to film it.

03:21That certainly caused us some issues at the scene.

03:24A man who was on the boat has suffered serious burns, so the ambulance are called in.

03:32And Bangor Coast Guard are deployed.

03:38Coast Guard, good afternoon.

03:39To keep everyone safe while they're working so close to the harbour side.

03:46Due to the hazardous area, they'll basically be on standby in case somebody goes in the water and detress you.

03:54Within minutes, the emergency teams are all on scene.

03:57Sometimes you'll have dozens of people running around.

04:02Trying to make sense of those scenes is really, really difficult.

04:08They start working out exactly what's happened.

04:12It claims they've had a proper blast, mustn't it?

04:15Explosions in the marinas do not happen that often, but there are serious consequences.

04:2076-year-old skipper David was renovating his boat when the explosion happened.

04:35It's been in the yard for 10 years.

04:39It's been virtually abandoned.

04:44I made the mistake of not changing the original gas pipe.

04:49And over the time, the gas had leaked out.

04:54In the morning, I'd put a new bottle of gas on it and forgot to turn it off.

04:59And I pressed the ignite button.

05:06A big blue wall of gas came towards me.

05:10And the next thing was, I was engulfed in flames.

05:18A big blue wall of gas.

05:19A big blue wall of gas.

05:20A big blue wall of gas.

05:21A big blue wall of gas.

05:22A big blue wall of gas.

05:24With such major burns, the air ambulance are called in.

05:31The air ambulance will be there in the next 10 minutes.

05:34I could feel my air was all singed off.

05:40I didn't notice my arms, the skin was hanging down at that time.

05:45The helicopter will take David directly to the nearest burns unit, near Liverpool.

05:50The burns had gone so deep that it was stopping the blood supply to my fingers and there was a chance to lose my hands.

05:59But things aren't over at the harbour.

06:08There's a very real risk of a second explosion.

06:12So it's vital crews get the blaze under control.

06:16Some of the vessels there are large and have got really big fuel tanks.

06:20The risk of those exploding was of real concern.

06:29We have an aerial ladder platform at our disposal.

06:33Called on that pretty sharpish.

06:34That got there and that really did the trick to be able to get the water in from above.

06:38As you can see, we're still pumping away on there.

06:42Everyone's still on high alert.

06:45The smoke's gone down, the fire's gone out, but there's some real hot spots in there.

06:48We could use our expertise to help the fire service to identify areas in the boats where gas canisters would be.

06:57So it does help to have knowledge of boats in these situations.

07:03The police drone unit is called in to help.

07:08A few cylinders as well, the back of that.

07:11The police drone's been really helpful.

07:12That's up there at the moment, like a colleague with them.

07:13They're going to have a bit of a deeper dive into it to get the heat from that.

07:16See if we need to cool it anymore.

07:19The biggest thing that we could do for them is to see where some of the hot spots were with the thermal camera.

07:25I was able to utilise that to give me that eye in the sky to help me direct the crews to pinpoint where we needed that water to be.

07:32They were actually able to find a hot spot near the front of the boat on the bow, which the fire surface hadn't seen.

07:41So it was very effective for them.

07:43With the situation now under control, the crews on scene can finally relax.

07:52This is one of those excellent examples of bringing so many emergency services together very, very quickly into one place just to do everything they do extremely well.

08:07To work in between us was able to work out why was the front of it hotter than the back of it.

08:14It just makes it so much easier because actually we've got that level of trust and understanding already, which goes a long way.

08:21The expertise, the knowledge that they bring to the table, absolutely fantastic. Couldn't have asked for a better bunch of people to work with.

08:31And after multiple skin grafts and more than a month in hospital, David was finally able to return home.

08:44I was lucky to escape all this, you know.

08:47It takes a long time for all burns to heal and scarring to go down.

08:52But I'm still here, you know.

09:01Major incidents in busy places pose unique challenges.

09:09But often teams face the opposite problem and must pull together for rescues in really remote spots.

09:18Cross country mountain biking is very popular in a rurry.

09:22There's something for everyone.

09:25You can go a lot further than you can if you're hiking or walking or running.

09:29Oh, thanks, Steve.

09:32But if you have an accident in that situation, that poses a really difficult challenge for rescue teams to be able to access you.

09:39It's only a few miles from the tourist hotspots on the coast, but with its sparsely populated farmland, crisscrossed by streams and waterfalls, it feels like a different world.

10:02Two people out on bikes.

10:08Two people out on bikes.

10:10Yep.

10:12One's fallen and badly injured her knee.

10:1456-year-old Caroline was on a Maybank holiday bike ride with her husband when the accident happened, more than two kilometres from the nearest road.

10:29South Snowdonia search and rescue are called out.

10:32South Snowdonia search and rescue are called out.

10:38It's probably straight on because that's the way you descend normally.

10:42With them is team doctor, Hayley.

10:45It's quite diverting.

10:47Who is herself a keen mountain biker.

10:51Mountain rescue were called because the casualty was quite far into a mountainous area.

10:57This is the end of the Pont-Skethin mountain biking route, so that's what they must have been doing.

11:05And it's very difficult, actually.

11:08It was all completely off-road for a few kilometres.

11:11I don't know if a potentially broken knee will tolerate this.

11:16There's no way that an ambulance or any sort of normal vehicle would have been able to drive anywhere near that casualty.

11:27I was always into outdoors, and when I met Frankie, he was into mountain biking, so it was a good combination.

11:36The plan that day was to actually just explore a trail that we'd never done on bikes before.

11:42It was a rough ground. There was rocks, and it was like a drover's path.

11:47There was a couple of times where I went ahead, so I could take some pictures of Caroline.

11:52The final time I went forward to take some more shots, as I turned round, that's when I seen her fall.

12:00The way she was screaming, seeing the sheep in the other field scattering, because she's frightening them.

12:08Excruciating pain, I just never forget that.

12:11The distance we was from anywhere easy to get to starts to sink in then.

12:20I realised that we need help.

12:28The rescue team access a farmer's track to get as close as possible to Caroline.

12:33But they have to do the last half-kilometre on foot.

12:46I went right over, and the whole weight went on my knee.

12:49It's just here.

12:51She'd fallen off the bike and landed on a rock onto her right knee.

12:56So, her knee had taken most of the impact.

13:00So, does anything else hurt?

13:03Nothing.

13:04Just this knee?

13:05Yes.

13:06It just felt, like, stiff.

13:10And then, when it tried to get up, the pain went down here.

13:13But it's very painful.

13:15I haven't put my foot on the ground.

13:17Okay. When do you think it happened, roughly?

13:20About half past two.

13:21Right, so we're nearly three hours later now.

13:24Yeah, it's not...

13:26It's about in the middle here.

13:28Yeah.

13:29Yeah, that's where it's sore, isn't it?

13:30It's clearly quite bruised at the front here, isn't it?

13:33Yeah.

13:34Can you straighten it at all?

13:36I've tried.

13:37Without helping your hands?

13:41Sorry.

13:42No, it's okay.

13:44I don't think I can straighten it.

13:46I'd say that there's tenderness of the tibial plateau.

13:51Which is the top of the big bone in your leg that sits here

13:54and your kneecap sits on top of it, okay?

13:56So, sometimes, you can get a break.

13:59That area, if you land on it, is quite prone to cracking.

14:03I could tell, almost immediately, that's what had happened.

14:07Given how painful and swollen it is

14:09and you're tender exactly there

14:11and can't put any weight on it,

14:12I'd be a bit suspicious of that at the moment, yeah.

14:15The rescue team rallies more volunteers

14:18to help carry her down in a stretcher.

14:20In all likelihood,

14:23we'll put it in a splint

14:25and stretcher you off.

14:27Yeah.

14:29It's a couple of kilometres down there.

14:30Well, you know, you came up it.

14:32But that's all right.

14:34Split bike.

14:36I think tied it up.

14:40I was just blown away by how many people were there.

14:43Can you get all of them?

14:45What's that leg?

14:50Wait, wait, wait, wait.

14:52No, it's okay.

14:53She'd managed her pain well,

14:55but the issue for us is knowing that we need to get her out of there.

15:00If it's too much, we've got some gas and air.

15:04And to do that, we're going to have to move that leg.

15:07I'm going to support it as you go, okay?

15:09There you go.

15:10Right, you're in the middle, mate.

15:14All right?

15:15Good.

15:16Good.

15:17Yes, thank you.

15:19Volunteers are coming out,

15:20and the worst thing for me was a bank holiday Monday

15:22to get them out from their families.

15:25Sorry to get you all out.

15:27Oh, not at all.

15:28We like coming out.

15:32The team have a special off-road wheel

15:35to help them get the stretcher over the rough terrain

15:38to the Land Rover.

15:39It just leaves the problem of how to get Caroline's bike back off the hill.

15:52Luckily, one of the volunteers is ready to step up.

15:56One of the mountain rescuers, he was a biker,

15:59so he went on my bike to get that down,

16:02and Frankie went with him.

16:05He enjoyed the ride because it was right up his street.

16:10We did hear afterwards that one of the two

16:12might have fallen off their mountain bike on the descent.

16:18Watch your head, please.

16:19Oh, sorry.

16:21I'm quite tough, and he stopped, and he said,

16:23you all right?

16:24And I'm like, yeah, I was a dented pride more than anything.

16:30Nice one, chaps.

16:31With everyone safely off the hill...

16:40Now hold yourself in with the door.

16:42Frankie takes Caroline to get her knee assessed in hospital.

16:49Right, should I close it?

16:51Caroline was in contact with me afterwards,

16:53and she said that I'd been spot on.

16:56It was a tibial plateau fracture of the knee.

17:00They'd confirmed that by x-rays.

17:03It's actually quite pleasing to know that my medical assessment was correct.

17:10At the time, I didn't realise it was such a serious break,

17:14but I'm very, very lucky.

17:16If it wasn't for mountain rescue,

17:17I would have probably needed an operation.

17:20I'll certainly be fundraising for them in the future.

17:24It's so important.

17:25We don't realise until something happens.

17:40Hey, good evening.

17:41It's Phil Bender from the Families Rescue Team.

17:43Hi.

17:44One, two, three, seven...

17:45Handling one rescue at a time is challenging enough.

17:49But when multiple jobs happen at once,

17:52it's vital the teams can call on volunteers

17:55with a wide range of skills.

17:57...to do a flare and winch if possible.

18:00From a young age, as a child, I was always outside.

18:04I couldn't sit still in a classroom.

18:06It's the one thing I knew I was never going to be able to do

18:07is work in an office.

18:09Yeah, Roger, that's holding on the system

18:12just above halfway house.

18:13I've long recognised that there are people

18:16who can go up and down mountains much faster than me,

18:19so I tend to be just in the base

18:22and I think I can contribute from there.

18:26Steve and Phil bring their different strengths

18:29to their roles as Llanberis Mountain Rescue volunteers.

18:33It's the busiest team in the UK

18:36and only getting busier.

18:38The most rescues personally that I've been on a day is about four.

18:42Walking up and down Llanberis Path through the stretcher,

18:45back to back, literally dropping casualties off at the Land Rover,

18:48walking back up.

18:50The pressure's building, definitely.

18:52We are actively looking for another purpose-built base

18:57that we would like to move into in the next few years.

19:00What we have at the moment does the job, but we've outgrown it.

19:04We've outgrown it.

19:12It's a Saturday evening and the call for help comes in.

19:16PHONE RINGS

19:17PHONE RINGS

19:18Hello.

19:19Hello.

19:20Hello.

19:21I'm stuck with my 83-year-old father on a mountain in Snowdonia.

19:25Not managed to get down in time.

19:27Feeling dizzy.

19:34PHONE RINGS

19:35Paul and his 83-year-old father Dennis are lost somewhere on Glyderfaur.

19:41Darkness has fallen and the weather is deteriorating.

19:44The wind was really strong.

19:47I think it was around 50 to 60 miles an hour.

19:50The visibility was pretty poor.

19:52There's an 83-year-old and a 44-year-old son.

19:57They've been out for most of the day.

19:59Now gone nine o'clock at night.

20:01The 83-year-old was feeling dizzy and weak.

20:05Yeah, perispace, yeah, Roger.

20:07That's copied, understood.

20:09Perispace.

20:10Sorry, Pete.

20:12PHONE RINGS

20:14I wanted to do something for the last few years with my dad.

20:19I felt like it would be a good time for us to be able to bond.

20:22But after around eight hours on the hill, they realise they're in trouble.

20:27My dad was starting to fatigue. His knees were starting to go.

20:30We got to a point where there was a sheer face of rock.

20:36And there was obviously no way down. So at that point, obviously we'd gone wrong somewhere.

20:41So we stopped and we made the call that we should try and phone 999.

20:48It took about ten minutes before I managed to get any phone signal to be able to do that.

20:53Given Dennis's age and the stormy weather, Mountain Rescue urgently need to find them.

21:00Got a second incident just developing. Perispace.

21:03But there's a problem.

21:04Yeah, I've only got six people out for these two stickers on Creepgork as well, so...

21:10A number of the team are already busy on another call-out.

21:14Four. Four-point anchor.

21:16We were dealing with an incident on Creepgork, a young couple off from the middle of the ridge.

21:22All call time, all call time.

21:25I think it was their first date.

21:31Good.

21:33It wouldn't be my choice for a first date, I don't think.

21:38It means there aren't enough available volunteers to go out searching for Paul and Dennis.

21:44So for now, coordinator Phil gets to work.

21:48Please call this number when you get this message.

21:52Trying to establish exactly where they're lost.

21:55I've tried bringing in and I've sent both phones, phone finds, and neither has been delivered.

22:02They sent a link that would have given an exact location of where we were,

22:06but we had no phone signal, so I couldn't actually open the link.

22:10Where have you set off from, Ogwin?

22:11From Ogwin.

22:12Ogwin, they've come over again to power.

22:14We just had a description from the sun.

22:18He could see a lake and he could see a river and he was trying to locate himself in relation to Snowdon.

22:24Which tends me to think that they're closer to the miners' track,

22:29because if you're round in the coombe you won't see capital, otherwise you should see capital.

22:33We have to go back to the older detective works.

22:36That is where experience and knowing your mountain really, really comes into play.

22:41Because the 400-meter contour puts him reasonably in the boggy ground the back would come thin on.

22:45Phil's an excellent coordinator. He's hugely, hugely experienced.

22:50Well, only if he's come down to the heather gully.

22:54You start with to put pieces of the puddle together, where you then come up with a solution in as quick a time as possible.

23:02I've got my best estimate of where he might be.

23:06But he doesn't have a rescue team to deploy.

23:10They're still busy on the earlier job.

23:13Hello Paul, how are you?

23:15So he puts a call for help out to neighbouring teams.

23:19If you could muster anybody who would be available to have a search to go in from Penigurid and see what you can see.

23:26We now work together really, really well, simply because we are busy, busy teams and therefore we depend on each other.

23:37Then Phil has another idea, which could make the search go much faster.

23:43One really, really good resource we have is the rescue helicopter.

23:47What my thoughts are, is to, do you see if 936 can fly into the back.

23:55To actually locate these two guys, that would be immensely helpful.

24:04If you could let me know when you've got everybody back in the vehicle.

24:09Back on the ground, Steve and the team are finally back from the disastrous data rescue.

24:14But there's no time for a break.

24:18I can find out in there.

24:19That was only an estimation of where they are.

24:21OK.

24:22It's not a sarlot.

24:23There's not a sarlot.

24:25We'll go back.

24:26They're straight back out to look for the missing father and son.

24:30Coming off that rescue and then going straight into another rescue means that you're already tired.

24:35But I'm assuming, he doesn't sound injured, is he just tired?

24:39So there's an element of fitness that's required.

24:42It was starting to get cold because we were exposed.

24:48If Phil's hunch about their location is wrong, the team could be in for a long night.

24:55So it's a relief when volunteers from Ogwen and Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue arrive as backup.

25:00Are you doing one time, I think?

25:02Yeah.

25:06It means some of the Llamberis volunteers on standby at base can finally get a break.

25:12Come on, go home, get some rest.

25:15Come on, go home, get some rest.

25:16See.

25:18His legs are gone now, so he'll probably need a stretch or evacuation.

25:24It's not long before some good news comes in.

25:29You don't see that light over there?

25:30They look miles away.

25:31They do look miles away.

25:32We have visual contact with that light.

25:35They have visual on the lights at that grid I gave you.

25:40Phil's expert local knowledge has led both the helicopter and the mountain rescue team directly to where Paul and Dennis are stranded.

25:49It was the right call to call for help.

25:59I think on their own they wouldn't have made their way back out.

26:02It was tricky terrain to navigate and it is tiring.

26:06Dennis was already in a position of fatigue.

26:08In fact, I think he was asleep when we got to him.

26:10So, yeah, he definitely had enough of walking that day.

26:13It woke me up as the helicopter landing and it was one awful noise.

26:20And somebody was shining a torch in my face asking me what my name was.

26:25I felt very relieved.

26:27At one point it did feel like we might not be getting off that mountain that evening.

26:34Mountanescu, you don't need to go to the hostel, do you?

26:36No, no.

26:37Yeah, you're fine, OK.

26:39Just a bit tired, yeah?

26:40And after checking 83-year-old Dennis over...

26:43He said if we go slow we could probably make him over there just hold on shoulders.

26:46Yeah, yeah.

26:48..they head to the waiting helicopter, which is ready to fly them back to safer ground.

26:54OK, so we're going to show them the casualty. I'm walking to the helicopter.

26:58Paul and Dennis have been out on the mountain for 12 hours and their rescuers have been on the goal for seven.

27:11But they're all now safely on their way back to base.

27:14The rescues that we go on are demanding but we can cope with that.

27:31All I can say is thank you so much for what you do on a day-to-day basis. Not just us but for anyone that's been in this situation.

27:47Forever be grateful for what they did.

27:49It's always nice when a cunning plan comes together.

27:56Thank you guys.

27:58All that can get good morning.

28:00People like Phil are brilliant at deciphering where people are, which makes a big difference.

28:07Farrah, see yous.

28:08See you guys.

28:09Behave.

28:10To go up and down a mountain two or three times in an afternoon requires people who are young, strong and fit.

28:19Therefore, to have that blend of people within a team is really, really important.

28:26That makes a good team.

28:28There is a great team.

28:31We appreciate it.

28:32That has been great.

28:34Great family.

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