A jet suit for paramedics has been tested by the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) in the Lake District.
It comes after a year of talks between GNAAS and Gravity Industries.
Andy Mawson, GNAAS director of operations, said users do not need to be travelling that fast to cover large areas of terrain, compared with someone on foot.
Underground fires pose a continuing threat.
MOLALLA, Ore. (Reuters) – Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Her border collie, Oink, rode shotgun as West and a volunteer crew raced to clear a fire line. https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=RCV008QSW&jwsource=em Behind West, on the front lines of the …
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