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A radio enthusiasts has helped save the life of a 12-year-old girl who was having a seizure 70 miles away with his quick-thinking. Mike Everett heard desperate pleas from a man camping in a remote part of Exmoor over the airways and immediately took action. Young May was having an severe epileptic fit and needed immediate medical help but the group could not get signals on their mobile phones. Luckily one of their party had amateur radio equipment with them and sent out a distress call, that was picked up by a transmitter on the Mendip Hills, which then reached Mike’s house in Horfield. Mike was the first to answer their pleas, and as other radio fans listened in from across the country, he called 999 and summoned an ambulance to Wimbleball Lake, Exmoor, just before 11pm on Friday night. According to the Bristol Post the emergency call handler was initially unaware Mike was actually calling on behalf of someone else 70 miles away. It took a couple of minutes for them to twig that Mike was the go-between in a matter of life and death as he relayed the medical instructions to the desperate man at the campsite. Mike said: “I’m a home amateur radio operator and we just use it to chat to people around the country and further afield. “But very occasionally something happens like this. “I’ve been licensed for five years and this is the first time I’ve ever had to do this. Some people would be a bit hesitant, but I was more than happy to help.”
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