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Noosa survives Schoolies By Margaret Maccoll The week-long Schoolies celebration turned ugly on its final night last Friday when an alcohol-fuelled mob on Noosa Main Beach pushed the limits of police who were trying to quell their unwanted behaviour. Police on horses and on foot moved into a crowd of thousands on the beach to diffuse a heightening situation and remove a generator and boom box that was further exciting the crowd. Schoolies closed in behind the horses, waving their arms and chanting loudly, but the horses and riders stood firm while a police vehicle moved in, collected the music machine and moved on. Police quickly brought the situation under control, with a couple of men escorted away. See pages 4 & 5 for more. Mounted police ride in to control schoolies mob. Picture: ROB MACCOLL
Heroes with heart By Abbey Cannan The quick-thinking actions of passersby has saved the life of a man who was found unconscious and bleeding from the head along the Noosa River pathway. A defibrillator located at The Boathouse in Noosaville has now saved two lives, with paramedics calling the recent events that followed James Ainslie’s heart attack “a miracle”. Noosa local Lisa Smith used her sports
medicine training to take over CPR from Julie Pyne who was first on the scene. “I was walking as I always do every morning along the river and I saw in the distance that a man had fallen to the ground a lady sitting over him,” she said. “The closer I got, I could see she was doing CPR and she was doing press compressions and I asked if I could help. “I could see the man had fallen down and
cracked his head as there was blood on the path.” Lisa said as she moved around to take over the CPR from Julie, she checked the status of James and noticed he was unresponsive and blue. “I immediately started more aggressive CPR. What Julie had done was terrific but the situation needed a more aggressive approach,” she said.
“I basically did compressions for close to five minutes and during that time a number of people had started to assist. You could tell he had an obstructed airway. We thought we had him a couple of times but he obviously needed a little bit more intervention so we had to continue with compressions.” A lady riding past then jumped on her bike to The Boathouse and brought back a defibrillator. Continued page 3
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