RACQ CQ Rescue Mackay completes missions in Beylando, St Helens Beach
A child’s ‘school holiday misadventure’ and a tourist’s outback caravan trip gone wrong were among five chopper rescues on the weekend.
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A child who fell from a roof near St Helens Beach and a tourist who suffered a heart attack in a caravan in Beylando were among five helicopter rescue missions since Friday.
About 3pm on Saturday, RACQ CQ Rescue’s Mackay team was called to a child seriously injured at a property just outside St Helens Beach.
The 11-year-old had fallen off a roof in what was described by RACQ as a “school holiday misadventure”.
The chopper crew treated the child before taking the boy and his mother to Mackay Base Hospital.
On Sunday at about 4.30pm, the rescue team was tasked to Beylando Road House where a tourist was suffering serious chest pain.
The 60-year-old man was travelling through the Central Queensland outback when he stopped at the road house because he was feeling unwell.
The helicopter landed near the service station on the Gregory Highway with a doctor and critical care paramedic on board.
After stopping to refuel at Moranbah, the patient was flown to Mackay Airport and an ambulance took him to Mackay Base Hospital in a stable condition.
Patients from Moranbah, Clermont and Bowen were also flown to Mackay Base Hospital.
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