Our Stokes basket.
It comes in two pieces when we
normally get here on the mountain,
it's attached to this frame.
So is what we call our big
wheels attached to a frame also.
So what we do is we go up certain
individuals kind of carry each piece of
equipment once we get to the patient.
Determining how we're getting
that patient off the Hill.
We can put the basket together
and then also put the big wheel
on it to make it rolling down
the Hill smoother for us more
efficiently and more safely. So
whether you're hitting this to a
helicopter or your vision into that so
you can roll it down the Hill,
it's kind of you're going to
use this basket no matter what.
If the person depends on
the extent of injuries.
If we have this,
basically a twisted ankle,
and they're at the top and we need
to use the helicopter that day,
we have what we call a screamer
suit so the screamer suit.
Me being an art we carry the screamer suit,
that rail line I have Captain Taylors,
my crew chief and the helicopter.
I'll get on the radio with him.
I'll confirm with my 2 captains on
the Hill how we want to handle this.
Once we do determine that we're
going to fly a patient off.
It's my call either the screamer
suit or what we call a vomit bag
screamer suit is probably 80% of
what we fly people off this mountain
with it's basically Sling will
get out a few minutes to show you
and then we have a trail line.
Once if I'm inserted by Firebird 10,
man crew Chief Taylor,
I make my way to the patient.
I could get the screamer suit out.
Thank you al.
Now with that is, yeah,
we're going to put you in it.
Why is my screen so? I want to know.
Appropriate name gonna make me screen.
Yeah so once we have this on
you I do the internal belt so.
I'm not getting too fresh
here, but I had to come here, I understand.
Then I.
So the screamer suit. This is a try link.
I'm closing it. Kind of.
It's basically what we
call big diaper around you.
So once I have all this established on him,
if we are hosting with the screamer suit
that I make my contact with my crew,
Chief Tom Taylor of Isamaa,
your patient status, your weight,
things like that for the helicopter,
then he comes back and repeats
everything exactly to me.
Then he starts the extraction process,
he'll lower the hook to me.
I held my hand up straight like this,
will hit my hand with that hook
I'll hook you to this and away
you go up the helicopter with
that rail line attached to you.
So that way I can have control
of something happens of you,
so you're not.
Flying so much under that helicopter,
I think I get why
they call it the screamer suit then.
This is like a tether to the
helicopter Hill, or they're like
floating through the air. Well,
not flowing. We have a trail
line on him so they can't.
Florida boy too far sure,
but they'll what he does is he has the
helicopter come out just a little bit.
What we call angle in it.
So he and I could look at each
other and the patient as he
starts bringing that patient up.
I start feeding that trail line out
so we have a constant tension between
US and then he gets to the helicopter.
He'll turn around on the backside is
where I hook that trail lineup 2 he'll
pull out the trelaina fall to the ground.
You'll be on lifting him
into the helicopter. This
way he'll fly on the
outside of the helicopter.
We don't bring him in to crew.
Chief Taylor then has several attachments
that he'll attached to this back,
so you're not falling and then
he'll come you down, right?
Here is what we call our base LZ.
The base. Else is we're Firebird.
10 lands either picks up the art
or picks up another paramedic.
Flies up, will make radio contact
and discuss the rescue plan with
both captains and crew chief,
and go from there.
Most of our calls during
the summer are dehydration.
Obviously these people don't plan well,
obviously.
Unfortunately,
a lot of room for out of state,
but they are not realizing that in
the six largest city inside the
United States we have one of the
most difficult parks to hike in,
so they really need to plan ahead.
Bring water as soon as they get
to half that bottle of water,
turn around now.
Don't keep going to the top because
a lot of times we'll get to the top
to help him and they said, hey,
we ran out of water way back there
but we wanted to see the view.
Don't just turn around.
Come back down.