TY - BOOK AU - Greenberg, Dave, TI - Emergency response: life, death and helicopters SN - 9780143771661 U1 - 363.3481 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Auckland PB - Random House NZ KW - Greenberg, Dave, KW - Helicopters in search and rescue operations KW - New Zealand KW - Wellington KW - Emergency medical technicians KW - Biography N1 - National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing in Publication (CiP) record N2 - 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. ER -