A Life on the Line: A MICA Flight Paramedic's Story

When the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. He does shifts at base on-call, and teaches another generation of paramedics now. Loves his job.

A list of well-known events that includes Victoria's Black Saturday Fires and the 2005 Bali Bombing...