CHOPPER FLIES EPIC 7.5 HOUR MISSION TO RESCUE TEEN RIDER
August 12, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHOPPER FLIES EPIC 7.5 HOUR MISSION TO RESCUE TEEN RIDER
RACQ CQ Rescue has flown an epic 7.5 hour-mission to retrieve a seriously injured teen from a remote property at Mistake Creek, more than 400km from the coast last night.
The Mackay-based rescue helicopter flew so far south-west to reach the patient, it had to refuel at Clermont enroute to the property as well as on the return leg at Moranbah before arriving at the Mackay Base Hospital about 2am.
The 17-year-old was riding a dirt bike and crashed on the remote cattle property at Mistake Creek about 4.30pm. She suffered serious abdominal, leg and pelvic fractures and required aeromedical evacuation to hospital for treatment.
RACQ CQ Rescue was tasked by Queensland Health about 7.20pm to fly to the remote property, located 100km west of Clermont, with a doctor, Critical Care Paramedic and rescue crewman on board.
The dust, dark and remote nature of the property proved incredibly challenging for the crew when attempting to land the rescue helicopter near the homestead. The teenager girl was administered pain relief and treated by the flying trauma team in an adjacent paddock before being loaded into the helicopter for the long flight to hospital.
She arrived on board the chopper in a stable condition at Mackay Base Hospital more than nine hours after her accident occurred.
It was the ninth mission in just three days for RACQ CQ Rescue.
Yesterday the helicopter crew also assisted Queensland Police Service with an aerial search for four children reportedly taken from a home near The Leap, north of Mackay.
After an hour-long search of the Hampden area and along the Bruce Highway about 2pm, RACQ CQ Rescue was re-tasked to a near-drowning in the Whitsundays.
A Victorian tourist was airlifted from Hamilton Island, about 90km north of Mackay, after an incident after an immersion incident on a boat anchored in waters nearby. The patient was taken to the island and then transported to Mackay Base Hospital by helicopter in a stable condition for further treatment.
This week RACQ CQ Rescue flew to Townsville twice in 24 hours to transfer critically ill and injured patients, to Ilbilbie on Wednesday night for a cardiac condition as well as airlifted multiple hospital patients from Proserpine and Moranbah to Mackay.
{ENDS]
RACQ CQ Rescue flew an epic 7.5 hour mission last night to transfer a teenager from remote property at Mistake Creek to Mackay Base Hospital.
Please credit any released photos and video footage to RACQ CQ Rescue.
Please note: Full title of rescue service is RACQ CQ Rescue.
For further information please contact:
Naomi Noy
RACQ CQ Rescue
Ph: 0417 578 182