Saving teen cost rescuers £2,000

Wednesday 9th February 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

The injured teen is brought up the cliff on a stretcher.

STICK to paths and be aware of danger on Guernsey’s cliffs, the Ambulance and Rescue Service has said.

The warning came days after an injured teenager had to be hauled up St Martin’s cliffs in an operation involving more than 20 members of Ambulance and Rescue, Police, Fire and Rescue, and Civil Protection Volunteers.

The rescue cost Ambulance and Rescue more than £2,000.

But chief ambulance officer Jon Beausire said he did not want to put people off enjoying one of the island’s assets.

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SB

February 9, 2011 at 6:03 pm

How can sending a few people to a cliff cost 2 grand!?

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AC

February 10, 2011 at 10:24 am

I think the cost of the rescue is totally irrelevant to the general public who at no point should ever feel a level of guilt for calling out any emergency service based on costs incurred.
Yes prevention is always the best form of protection and therefore I totally agree with public warnings about the dangers of the cliffs but the costs incurred to the particular service is of a strategic level for the management not the public to whom they provide the service to.

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willo

February 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm

SB

Consider it lucky that it was highly trained cliff rescuers that cost £2,000

If you has asked 20 advocates to attend, they would have charged £2,000 each

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Terry Langlois

February 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm

willo – and the poor lad would still be there while the Advocates continued discussing the best way to save him…

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Paul Le Page

February 10, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Touché , willo! Nice one :-)

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