Carter Burkard was presented a Good Samaritan Award by B.C. Emergency Health Services in Victoria
A quick-thinking 13-year-old who helped save his grandfather after an all-terrain vehicle accident was presented a Good Samaritan Award by B.C. Emergency Health Services in Victoria on Thursday.
“I tried to apply the brakes to stop it but it was too little too late. It was one of those things,” he said. “I’ve had the quad since 2006 and it’s never done it before and it was a bad place for it to happen the first time.” “When you use a Garmin and hit the SOS, the signal goes to the satellite and the satellite receives it and sends it to the call centre in Texas and it shows our location, the co-ordinates of longitude and latitude for connection, and exactly where the person holding the Garmin is actually physically standing,” Burkard said.
Carter and his grandfather had regularly used the device for finding their own location and the location of fellow hunters and to text each other. The injured pair were located on the forest service road and given initial treatment — a breathing tube was inserted for Burkard — before the grandfather was transported to a location where an air ambulance could take him to Victoria General Hospital.
The Burkard rescue is an example of the importance of having GPS or satellite-based communication devices in emergency situations, said the service, which advises people heading out to the back country and out of cell range to bring a GPS device that they know how to use.
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