The Aerocool Rescue Helicopter serves Tauranga and the coastal Bay of Plenty.
“I got to say to the crew ... ’you doing your job, to the best of your ability, has helped save my life.’”
Those are the words of a man named Geoff, who was helped by the Tauranga-based Aerocool Rescue Helicopter during a medical emergency.
Geoff and his wife had
no idea their world was about to turn upside down. According to a statement from the Philips Search and Rescue Trust, the couple was out enjoying a beach run with their dog, Pablo, but when Geoff bent down to pick him up, a sudden, excruciating pressure built up in his head and he collapsed on the sand.
Understandably, his wife was horrified and tried to get him to their car. But Geoff was so disoriented, he started walking in the wrong direction.
Knowing something was seriously wrong, his wife drove him straight to the nearest medical centre, where a doctor immediately recognised that Geoff was in danger and called 111.
