Emergency situation

[Sonwatcher]

Last night I got on .475lsb and Stone Crusher CDX-4540 told me to turn on my 2m and listen as there was an emergency going on. What had happened a man thought he was having a heart attack driving down the road and was calling out on his radio for help and for someone to call 911. Some hams got on there and called 911 for him and sent I believe a relative to go to him. I sure hope he is ok as we heard no more after the help arrived. That radio may have saved his life. It was a real eye opener to bring us back to real life and how the thing that we think of as just a hobby can be something of great importance.

God bless you all !



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[Captain Kilowatt]

I know what you mean on that one.Several years ago my wife and I were returning home from a vacation in New England and we were traveling through eastern New Brunswick on our way back home to Nova Scotia.We were in a pretty rural area and it was pouring rain.As we rounded a bend in the road we met several cars flashing their headlights at us.We soon found out why.There was one car on it's roof in the ditch with it's rear wheels still turning,another station wagon partially in the ditch on the other side of the road with the rear drive train ripped out and laying near the tree line,and a partially jack-knifed 18 wheeler in the middle of the road.One car had hydroplaned and crossed the road hitting the other car and the big rig plowed through the middle and hit both cars.The trucker could not get any help on the CB as skip was too heavy and not many people had cell phones then and the coverage in that area sucked any way.I used my newly purchased 2m HT that I just picked up at HRO while on vacation and hit the local repeater in Sussex N.B. to call for help.I stayed on the radio with another ham giving him a status report of the victims and helped direct traffic along with another fellow while my wife who is a nurse along with another nurse did what they could.Before long (long enough) police,fire,and ambulances arrived with another nurse and a doctor on board.Final count was three dead in the rollover<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=""> ,another with severe internal injuries including a ruptured spleen and one VERY distraught truck driver.Not sure if the radio saved the life of the fellow with internal injuries or not as we did not hear how he made out later but I do know that without it he had no chance whatsoever due to location and responce time.It was one of those times when I felt good about being able to help but bad about the reasons for help being needed.I now have a company cell phone with me all the time and my wife has one with her always but I still take at least an HT whenever I go any where.Your are right about radio being more than just a hobby.It can be a way of LIFE for someone.

Garth 9VE01 PE993 CDX993 Learn from others mistakes.You can not live long enough to make them all yourself.</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub86.ezboard.com/bworldwidecbradioclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=qrn>QRN</A> 

at: 1/4/04 5:39 pm