Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Missions

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to a bobcat accident in Tenterfield. En route the patient was transported by road to Tenterfield Hospital. The patient was then airlifted by Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter from Tenterfield Hospital to Lismore Base Hospital in a serious condition suffering multiple crush injuries.

Pilot: Mike Sterritt
Aircrew: Mick Kerry
Patient care: by Doctor Andre Shultz and NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Stephen Goulding.

Time: 22:45

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to transfer a female patient suffering a neck injury after a motor vehicle accident from Lismore Base Hospital to Mater Hospital Brisbane.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Aircrew: Mark Sewell
Patient care: by NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Rolan Murcott and Paramedic Paul Millard.

Time: 17:33

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to airlift a swimmer from Brunswick Heads before being cancelled en route.

Pilot: Mike Sterritt
Aircrew: Steve von Bratt
Patient care: by NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Glen Rice and Paramedic Kim Hanlon.

Time: 22:45

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter transferred a female patient with neck injuries from Lismore to the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. The patient sustained the injuries following a motor vehicle accident.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Crew: Mark Sewell
Patient care: by NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Rolan Murcott and Paramedic Paul Millard

Time: 18:15

Westpac LifeSaver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to conduct a land search in the Minyon Falls area for a missing female with a serious medical condition. The missing person’s car was located at the Minyon Falls lower car park by Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter crew around 6:30pm. Two paramedics were immediately winched into the area to search the vehicle and surrounding bushland. Approximately 15 minutes later the missing person was found nearby in dense forest, she was suffering from mild exposure and was in a serious but stable condition. Further medical equipment and a stretcher was winched to the paramedics to extracate the patient on foot, this was due to the non-life threatening condition of the patient, the dense forest and the need for a very high winch (80 metres).

The patient was stabilised at the scene and transported to hospital by road ambulance.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Crew: Mark Sewell
Patient care by: NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedics Glenn Rice and Rolan Murcott

Time: 17:00

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to a search in the Minyon Falls area for a female with suicidal intentions. The patient’s car was located at the lower Minyon Falls car park where the female was found nearby and transported to Lismore Base Hospital by road.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Aircrew: Mark Sewell
Patient care: by NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedics Glen Rice and Rolan Murcott.

Time: 12:00

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to transport flood bound paramedics in Bowraville to South Bellingen and to North Bellingen.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Aircrew: Mick Kerry, Aaron Hall
Patient care: by NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Andrew Osborne and Paramedic Michael Smith.

Time: 08:50

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to a truck accident on a private road approximately 5 kilometres south-west of Kyogle, where a truck had overturned and rolled while trying to negotiate a steep dirt road.
Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter winched intensive care paramedics Andrew Osborne and Glen Eady down to assist the trapped truck driver, managing to stabilize the patient while police and SES crews worked to free him from the wreckage. The middle-aged driver remained trapped for approximately 45 minutes before being winched over 100ft, in difficult conditions, by Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter. The man was then flown to Lismore by Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter, where he is being treated for suspected spinal injuries at Lismore Base Hospital.

Pilot: Lynton Beggs
Rescue Crew: Steve von Bratt
Patient care: NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedics Glen Eady and Andrew Osborne.

Time: 21:20

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to transfer a 59 year old female in a critical condition after she suffered a heart attack from Lismore Base Hospital to Southport Hospital.

Pilot: Mike Sterritt
Aircrew: Steve von Bratt
Patient care: by Dr Steve Diamond and NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Kim Hanlon.

Time: 21:20

Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to transfer a 59 year old female suffering from heart attack from Lismore Base Hospital to Southport Hospital.

Pilot: Mike Sterritt
Aircrew: Steve von Bratt
Patient care: by Dr Steve Diamond and NSW Ambulance Intensive Care Paramedic Kim Hanlon.