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Lightning, they say, never strikes twice in
the same place. Be that as it may, a unique
event has hit home twice to Eureka Lodge
No. 3763, which meets at Bootle on
Merseyside in the Province of West
Lancashire.
Each year the Ambulance Service
Institute (ASI) presents awards for
outstanding achievements, and Eureka
Lodge members Dave Seel, a paramedic, and
Dave Anderson, an emergency medical
technician, have together achieved an
amazing double akin to lightning striking
twice in the same place.
In each case, they were in the right place
at the right time at an emergency situation,
and were able to play a major role in saving
life and limb in what were extremely serious
incidents.
Last year, Dave Anderson was awarded
the ASI Private Ambulance of the Year
Award, presented at the House of
Commons, following action he took when
he was first on the scene involving two
motorway pile-ups.
Previously, in 2005, Dave Seel won
exactly the same award following a road
traffic collision on Manchester’s A57. And
to complete the unique double event, Dave
Seel had proposed Dave Anderson into
Masonry a year earlier.
Both Masons work for the medical and
rescue services division of Safety Provider
Ltd, which provides cover for medical
rescue occurrences for organisations such
as the Highways Agency, the Rockingham
race circuit at Corby – where they manage
the £100,000 medical centre provision – as
well as being an emergency nuclear response
team in the event of a national emergency
at a power station for British Energy.
Dave Anderson was the first on the scene
at two motorway pile-ups as he drove home.
As he approached Junction 25 on the M62,
near Brighouse in West Yorkshire, he saw
three cars collide, throwing debris across the
motorway.
He explains: “I was driving a marked
response vehicle, and as a consequence, I
was able to slow the traffic down to make it
safe to approach the damaged vehicles and
check on the injured drivers. I then helped
the police get the victims to the safety of a
lay-by as an ambulance arrived. But just
moments later, three more cars crashed in an
almost identical manner.”
Dave sprang into action again and helped
get three more injured people to safety, but
was working, with the support of the police,
very much on his own. Luckily, he knew
that an ambulance crew was on the way.
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Dave Seel receives his award from
Jacqui Tait MP at the House of
Commons along with ASI President
Alan Meadowcroft
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MQ Magazine
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