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Days after returning to service, the Flying Christine III has been on a call out to Herm to help a patient with a medical condition who needed hospital treatment.
Herm's Community First Responders asked the St John Marine Ambulance to go over on Thursday night after it was decided the patient needed to get back to Guernsey quickly.
The paramedic led medical team were in Herm within 15 minutes of the call coming in, before bringing the patient back to Guernsey and on to the Emergency Department at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.
Pictured: Ambulance 101 outside the Emergency Department.
While the Flying Christine was in action for the first time since returning to service, the other facets of the Bailiwick's ambulance service were dealing with various other issues.
Ambulance crews were called to a "number of other medical cases" as well as two road traffic collisions, one involving a motorcycle and another involving a cyclist.
Two additional clinicians were called back to work to ensure emergency cover was maintained while rostered staff dealt with the incoming incidents.
The ambulance service also assisted with the incident at Grande Rocques, where the lifeboat crew had to rescue five children who had become stranded on rocks on the rising tide, shortly before sunset.
The children were brought safely ashore by the St Peter Port Inshore Lifeboat and were met at Port Soif by ambulance crews who assessed and treated them for the effects of the cold.
A spokesperson for St John Ambulance and Rescue Service said it would echoe the comments of the Guernsey Coastguard Duty Search and Rescue Coordinator who said: “Although we would never wish to stop children having fun in and around our local marine environment, it is essential that they do so safely and are fully aware of their surroundings, and especially the time of the high tides.
"With the strong winds experienced over the past few days, a large swell had formed on the west coast and as such the area where the children had decided to enjoy the sea was extremely precarious.”
Flying Christine III back in service
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