02/01/2025
Happy New Year
A very sad one for Nelson, with the loss of an amazing woman Lyn Fleming, my thoughts are with your family, friends, colleagues and the Nelson and NZ Police Force. We all expect to arrive home safely from our jobs. You are a true hero.
This was written by one of my amazing ambulance colleagues
I went to work today.
I really hoped I was going to be OK.
I got ready, proud to pull on the uniform.
I hoped I was coming home safely at the end of my shift.
I worked on an Ambulance 🚑
I will do the same tomorrow and hopefully a lot more tomorrow's!
Today I came home, but something had changed.
Some of my "Ambulance family" went to work last night.
New Years Eve, this did not go well.
We all assume NY Eve is going to be full of alcohol, drugs, vomit, assaults, screaming teenagers who should be at home, and it generally is.
This NY Eve some of our Police Officers went to work.
They wandered among the drunk, the jovial, the scrappers, the "have a chats"
They saw smiles, heard laughter,
answered questions, tolerated abuse, leers and taunts.
They looked out for one another.
Ambulance Officers do the same.
Police look out for us and we do the same for them.
We see things, hear things, smell things.
We look after each other.
We are family.
The kind of family perhaps others don't understand.
Kind of like a brothers in arms type thing.
Last night some of our emergency services heroes were taken out by an ar****le.
One died.
She was just doing her job.
She wanted to go home at the end of her shift.
She had plans for the next few days, weeks, months and years!
She had appointments scheduled, family holidays planned.
She had plans that didn't include some ar****le snatching her away!
This has hit home, it's hit hard.
It could have been any one of us!
Tarm - 01.01.2025