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Greenberg, Dave,

Emergency response : life, death and helicopters / Dave Greenberg. - Auckland Random House NZ 2017. - 284 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits 24 cm

National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing in Publication (CiP) record.

Stories from a life spent in the emergency services - true tales of rescue and adventure.When Dave Greenberg was just 13 years old, he saved a life for the first time, using CPR. He already knew that he wanted to spend his life helping others in times of crisis, and that traumatic event on a city footpath only confirmed this desire. He went on to spend 25 years working with Life Flight - the Westpac Rescue Helicopter service in Wellington, New Zealand, taking part in many daring rescues on land and at sea, often taking the role of 'the dope on a rope' - their own term for the rescuer who dangles from a winch over stormy seas trying to pluck people from heaving ship decks or from the ferocious waves. These are his stories.

ISBN: 9780143771661 0143771663

Subjects--Personal Names:
Greenberg, Dave,--Career in emergency services.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Helicopters in search and rescue operations--New Zealand--Wellington.
Emergency medical technicians--New Zealand--Wellington--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 363.3481