In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding,
The patient was safely freed seven hours after her ordeal began with only minor scratches and bruises,
I wanted to give the biggest shoutout to my friends, the team who worked so hard to get me out,
She was such a trooper,
With care, a hardwood frame was built to ensure stability while rescuers worked,
We were concerned that anytime we moved a rock, if it fell in the wrong direction, it was going to fall down on top of her,
The chute that she slid down didn’t go straight down, so we couldn’t pull her straight up,
She was so calm and collected through the whole thing. I was very impressed. I would have been frantic. She was not panicked whatsoever,
We all put our heads together and determined the only way to get her out is to come out vertically, which means we have to remove these rocks,
As she’s crawled into this little hole, she slipped and slid about three metres down a chute and got stuck,
My initial thought was, how are we going to get her out of here? Because I’ve never come across this,
She was tired, and she was quite dizzy. All of her blood was in her head, and she had nothing in her legs, so she couldn’t stand, couldn’t really walk at that stage,