My nan is dying now please keep her in your prays thank you
Chapter 13
Slowly she climbed out of the truck grabbing a medical pack and hobbling over to the accident. Heidi was assessing the walking wounded dressing a partially nasty gash on a young man's arm. Dean had climbed into the car and was working on the driver.
Lara surveyed the area working out where the biggest clinical need was when something caught her eye. Under the fallen rubble of the café a hand was visible and moving. Putting down her crutches she carefully lowered herself to the floor lifting some of the light rubble uncovering the arm up to about 6 inches below the shoulder. Lying down she could see a young girl about 15 years old she was wearing a school uniform. Assessing what she could see the girl was pinned by her legs, had a nasty head wound and had a hefty piece of concrete just resting on her arm However where her main body lay was actually fairly safe and quite roomy.
"Hey I'm Lara can you tell me your name?" Lara asked getting out a cannulation kit it was important to get fluids and IV access.
"Bethany. It hurts" the girl said. Lara mentally checked airway off her assessment. She studied the girls breathing noting it was regular and even slightly fast at 24 but that was probably the pain and shock. She knew it would be too risky to pass an oxygen mask through in case she knocked the precariously balanced concrete. She could however pop the oxygen saturations monitor on the finger and the blood pressure cuff on the exposed arm.
The sats probe gave the sats at 95% out of 100% not to bad Lara mused the pulse was again fast at 111 but that could be pain or something more serious. She gave the morphine 10mg knowing it would work quickly. She called a bystander over hooking up fluids
"Hold this up and push this gently but often" she ordered as she stood up with difficulty. She assessed the concrete structures one bit was part of the roof the other the wall. The roof part should lift with one and shouldn't disturb any other parts of the rubble the brick wall was crumbled they'd have to remove it brick by brick. She hobbled to the truck her crutches abandoned and grabbed the scaffolding and airbag. It would lift and stabilise the concrete column. A bystander rushed to help carry the items Lara showing him where to bring it.
"Can I help?" he offered, "I'm a builder I can assemble this" he offered
"That would be great over there ready to slip in" she ordered positioning the airbags. She noticed back up was here and Vince was making his way over, he looked more concerned than annoyed.
"Lara what you got?" he asked, Lara ran him though the situation and the plan. He didn't like it but realised Lara was the only one small enough to fit into the gap and clear the bricks of the causality.
"Ok we go slowly" he ordered. Lara nodded putting on the helmet and glasses. They inflated the airbags and slipped the scaffolding in. Once deemed safe Lara slipped into the gap, she popped the oxygen mask onto her and bandage the small wound to the shoulder splinting it. Lara figured it was broken, she transferred the blood pressure cuff onto the non-broken arm. Then slowly moved herself into a position to move the bricks. Carefully she stacked them to the side then suddenly the whole ground shook
"Lara get out of there" Vince ordered, Lara tried but the scaffolding collapsed before she could move. It was dark, she was trapped again she couldn't move couldn't breathe. She was waiting for him to come back. There was a man shouting loudly, was it him. The verges of panic were almost forcing her into a cationic state, then she felt a calming presence,
"Lara honey your safe breath for me" it was her mum, taking her hand, "Focus you need to save her" Lara looked at where her mum was pointing the girl Bethany she was injured. "Keep moving those bricks get her ready you won't have long" her mum warned disappearing.
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