Wednesday February 14, 2007 | Biker Mike's Weblog Sun employee & fanatical motorcyclist Mike Belch's Weblog |
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The phrase "baptism of fire" springs to mind. Within 30 minutes of starting my first week on duty as a telephone coordinator for the Freewheelers blood bikes, I had received eleven requests for assistance. We have three active riders on duty from 7:00pm to 7:00am during the week and 24 hours at the weekend. Despite this through-the-night service we try to minimise the amount of work that we give our riders to ensure that they are fresh should a real emergency come through. Luckily tonight we didn't have any emergencies, which is just as well as our North rider, covering Bristol, had requests for eight deliveries. I decided to immediately to reject four of the jobs which were for the delivery of drugs solely within Weston-super-Mare. So here is the list of what our riders actually did during the evening:
So the scores on the doors for tonight are £270 saved for the NHS and riders on the road for more than 8 hours. For my first night on duty as a coordinator I was quite wound up, so was really glad at 11:00pm when all our riders were safely home and I was able to give them a good nights sleep as no further calls came in. Technorati tags: Volunteer, Motorcycle Emergency Posted by mikebelch ( Feb 14 2007, 09:33:07 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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