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Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:18pm

Children drive 35km to find help for injured parents in remote NSW after dad dies in well

By Gavin Coote

Posted 26 minutes ago

Map: Weilmoringle 2839

Two children have driven 35 kilometres for help after their father inhaled gas while working in a well and their mother fell trying to help him, in north-western New South Wales.

Police said the 29-year-old man was installing a water pump at the bottom of a well near Weilmoringle — about 225 kilometres north west of Lightning Ridge — when he was overwhelmed by fumes, about 5:30pm on Saturday.

He died at the scene.

The man's 28-year-old partner started climbing down the well to help, but fell about 30 metres after the rope ladder broke.

Police said the couple's two children, aged 12 and 13, drove 35 kilometres to a nearby road, where they flagged down a passing driver, who phoned emergency services.

NSW State Emergency Service, Fire and Rescue NSW, police and paramedics arrived and started a rescue operation.

The woman was rescued from the well about 1:00am on Sunday, eight hours after the ordeal began.

She was suffering shock and suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.

The mother was flown to Orange Base Hospital in a serious condition.

Police said they were not treating the incident as suspicious.

A report will be prepared for the coroner.

If it happen in the city the kids would be stuck on facebook Angry

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74862 Gender:	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #1 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:20pm aussie100percent wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:18pm: If it happen in the city the kids would be stuck on facebook if it had happened in the city the wife could have run next door for help and the father might still be alive .... the kids would have had no need to get off facebook
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49224 At my desk.	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #2 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:24pm Confined spaces are like electricity. Never go in alone to rescue someone.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #3 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:26pm Very remote and hostile country up there. Not much help around.
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Grappler Deep State Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84959 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #4 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 4:58pm Seems like an annual event - someone gets down a well and starts up a petrol pump and falls over... rescuer often also dies. You'd think people would know by now that wells and petrol pumps don't mix.
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Reply #5 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 5:25pm

freediver wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 2:24pm:

Confined spaces are like electricity. Never go in alone to rescue someone.

All electricity repair units have a winch at the back for recovering someone overcome in a man hole. They also have air breathing gear and told to NEVER go down to rescue someone without it.

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Reply #6 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 6:11pm

Why would there be a petrol motor down the well?

The pump he was installing should have been electric ....

if he needed light you use an extension lead light & a generator that is above ground at the well head.

Sounds like a recipient for the Darwin Awards.... Roll Eyes

feel sorry for the children.

Oh & why fly her to Orange? There are closer larger regional towns. Dubbo for example.

And Brisbane is only an hour & 16 mins flying time.

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Reply #7 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 6:16pm

Gnads wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 6:11pm:

Why would there be a petrol motor down the well?

The pump he was installing should have been electric ....

if he needed light you use an extension lead light & a generator that is above ground at the well head.

Sounds like a recipient for the Darwin Awards.... Roll Eyes

feel sorry for the children.

Pump with a good head of lift would do it.... got one down the back that lifts down to about 7 metres (from memory) and pushes uphill to about thirty.... you can get dedicated well pumps that sit above ground......

If you must get down a well with a petrol pump etc - quick start and get the hell out of Dodge..... make like a jackrabbit up that ladder.... and don't go back down..... CO sits down low....

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Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 29805 Gender:	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #8 - Dec 6^th, 2015 at 6:44pm Yes but I still don't understand the necessity of a combustion engine pump being down a well Grappler. Excuse my ignorance but I've never heard of it. Barring windmills/mechanical pump & electric pumps I've haven't heard of putting a petrol powered pump down a well. Seems the height of stupidity.
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Reply #9 - Dec 7^th, 2015 at 10:02am

Gnads wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 6:11pm:

Oh & why fly her to Orange? There are closer larger regional towns.

That's because of Jullian Skinner's homicidal policy of "Dispersing Patients Around", not necessarily to the nearest hospital and it can be the worst one. Orange is rated in the top three as the worst in NSW. Orange is staffed by bogan housewives with jobs and reject doctors. Pray for the lady who fell down the well, because Jullian Skinner won't give a toss

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aussie100percent Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 565 Gender:	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #10 - Dec 7^th, 2015 at 10:21am Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Dec 6^th, 2015 at 4:58pm: Seems like an annual event - someone gets down a well and starts up a petrol pump and falls over... rescuer often also dies. You'd think people would know by now that wells and petrol pumps don't mix. What petrol pump?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49224 At my desk.	Re: Lucky for the mother this happened in the bush Reply #11 - Dec 8^th, 2015 at 10:23am There are plenty of 'natural' sources of fumes and oxygen displacing gasses in a well.
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Reply #12 - Dec 8^th, 2015 at 10:26am

'installing a pump' - picky, picky - the odds are he decided to give it a test run.... don't be naive. A well full of gas would not be likely to give you usable water.... it would likely be tainted and good only fore camels and goats.

Most underground water in sandstone sub-strata is well filtered and lovely. Had me a bore like that - bewdiful!

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