This guy was in the pit in a mechanics place and he was burnt by fire.
His wife rang me and I was there within two minutes. I had said to
them put him in the shower, so they had put him in the shower. I
wrapped him in a sheet, put him in my car and took him to the clinic.
I had him in the shower while I was getting all the bandages and
everything ready and then his wife and I put SSD cream over every
part of his burns and bandaging; and I was on to (the named
emergency service) of course and I had him on morphine. Now I got a
drip into a pretty shocked man, which I think is quite a thing to do;
and he was in awful pain so he sort of shut down and I got morphine
and loads of fluid into him. The bandages were all done and we had
him in the plane 20 kilometres away within three hours and in
hospital in four hours, under good pain control. He didn’t suffer any infection, he didn’t even have to have skin grafting or go to (named)
hospital and he was home within about five days.