
Drones saved the lives of two teenagers off NSW north coast in ‘world first rescue’
A “WORLD first rescue” happened on January 18th in NSW when a government drone rescued two distressed teenagers swept out to sea. Surf Life Saving drone Little Ripper undergoing a test on Sydney’s Maroubra beach. In barely a month, it would save two lives. Picture: Renee Nowytarger.Source:News Corp Australia A DRONE, paid for by NSW taxpayers, has dramatically proved its worth when it helped save the lives of two teenagers on Thursday. Two boys, aged 16 and 17, got into troub

Kids, CPR & first aid - Why bother?
Three junior high school kids were walking home one afternoon, joking, tripping and shoving each other into bushes when they noticed an elderly lady drop in her garden. Their giggles were quickly replaced by anxiety and the realisation that there was nobody else around to help. Without mobile phones back in the day, a frantic run between the front doors of other aged neighbors occurred (who were too fearful of our chaotic noise to emerge or let them in to phone 000), so all t

CPR skills: ‘I was the only one in the room who could save my dying baby’
NITU Gupta comes from a medical family and assumed all her relatives knew CPR — but when her son went into cardiac arrest, she discovered nobody else knew what to do. NITU Gupta comes from a medical family and assumed all her relatives knew CPR — but when her son Ravi stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest, she discovered nobody else knew what to do. Luckily Dr Gupta, a dentist, had kept her CPR skills up to date and she swung into action and saved his life. “No-one i

McDonald's employee saves a life
McDonald's worker saves baby's life in medical emergency 7News Brisbane / November 20th, 2017 The swift actions of a teenage fast food worker have saved the day in a drive-thru medical emergency in Brisbane. Lily Kay, a student paramedic, took charge when a baby boy began having a seizure at the Underwood branch of McDonald's. Now the parents of Benji Burgess are hailing the heroic actions of the 19-year-old, claiming she saved their boy's life One-year-old Benji Burgess was