Saving Lives
Since its inception ACREM monitors have responded to many thousands of calls, many of which concern potentially life threatening emergencies. Even with the proliferation of mobile telephone and modern communication technology, CB is still widely used in many regions and calls for emergency assistance do still occur. In February 1998 the Lower Hunter branch of ACREM made the news when a member, assisted by another CB operator that would later join ACREM, provided a relay for SES Rescue and Ambulance crews attending to an injured youth in the Barrington Tops region of NSW. In an article appearing in a local newspaper it was reported:
Due to difficulties with radio communications most of the messages had to be relayed from the rescue party via CB to ambulance control in Newcastle. Adam and another CB operator and an Australian Citizens Radio Emergency Monitors member, Mr Martin Howells, of Cessnock, provided communications support for Barrington Guest House staff, ambulance control and Dungog SES volunteers.
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