[P]aramedic Nick Wright answered a call for help with a difference when he came to the rescue of a writer.
Nick, director of the Ambleside-based Event Group and MedSkills Academy, spotted the plea on social media from author Andrea Meanwell: “Please can any paramedic out there get in touch. I need to check details about the inside of an ambulance.”
Andrea, a farmer and shepherdess in the Rusland valley is working on her third book. “I’m writing a story about an independent woman running her own farm,” she explained. “In the story the shepherdess collapses while buying sheep at the Lakeland Fair at Kendal auction and is taken to Lancaster hospital in an ambulance.”
But like every good writer, she wanted accurate detail in her descriptions. “Nick helped to make the scene as realistic as possible by advising on what would be happening inside the ambulance during the medical emergency,” she said.
Andrea’s first book, A Native Breed: Starting a Lake District Hill Farm was published earlier this year and her second, In My Boots: A Year on a Lake District Farm came out last month.
Nick, whose Event Safety Group is on duty this weekend at the Lakeland Trails races, said: “I was pleased to be able to help Andrea. It’s second nature for paramedics to answer calls for help.”
