Frampton Country Fair

On Sunday, Stroud Division covered the annual Country Fair at Frampton on Severn.

There were 9 of us on duty, as well as Severnside Cadet Division, who were doing a PR and recruitment stand.

We arrived on site at 8am, and proceeded to erect the tent, in the same place as in previous years. We had just finished putting it up, when one of the organisers came running across the field to tell us we were in the wrong place. I went and assessed the access and egress routes, while the rest of the team moved the tent !

As I was going to be crewing the ambulance, Dan was going to be Duty Officer for the first time, so I stood back and let him organise the setting up of the first aid post, and deliver the pre-duty briefing. We had some response teams out and about in the crowd, but the ambulance crew were based at the first aid post, so I made myself comfy in a chair, with a good view of the main ring.

During the morning, we had some casualties turn up to the first aid post, all for minor injuries - blisters, small cuts, and a twisted ankle, and they were dealt with by the team. We then had an emergency call from the ambulance service, asking us to attend a 999 call in the nearby village. Myself and Dave got into the ambulance, and made our way (very slowly) through the crowd and out onto the main road. We arrived at the incident in 4 minutes, and then dealt with the football player who had injured her leg. An ambulance service paramedic turned up not long after us, shortly followed by another ambulance, so we all worked together to move her from the ground into the ambulance.

We returned to site, and the rest of the day was fairly uneventful, although one of our response teams did witness a fight, where a group of drunken youths were trying to drive away on some mobility scooters from one of the trade stands !

At 6pm we packed up, and somehow avoided all of the traffic queues that had been around the site all day, and managed to get back to Stroud in only 10 minutes - unlike the poor people stuck in the car parks, who took 1 1/2 hours to get to the road !