Just two months ago, Katherine's paramedics were stretched beyond their means as they tended to a growing population and the burden of disease worsened for the aging baby boomers.
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Code ones would stack on top of each other as a single ambulance serviced a 150 kilometre radius.
If a crew was attending an emergency almost 100km away in Mataranka, people in town would simply have to wait.
A station in desperate need of more resources, five additional paramedics were brought on board to crew a brand new ambulance, creating a whole new shift to deal with demands.
Where there was previously a delay in response time, now there is almost none, according to the station's area manager Mick Thwaites.
"It is now very rare I will have to be called out because we have two ambulances on the road from midday to midnight - our busiest time."
New recruit, Jess Anderson, arrived in September and was lucky to never have to experience the constant emergency pulls in direction.
Originally from New Zealand, she said a stint in remote Australia was always on the cards.
"It is helping where the need is greatest, where there are more challenges and we really get to utilize our training and skills," she said.
"Some of our jobs are more typical of cities, pop them in the ambulance and then we are at the hospital in five minutes, whereas other jobs might take us to the Gorge where we have to deal with certain logistics and less resources."
She arrived to the station at the same time as the new ambulance, and said her work so far has been a roller coaster of days unlike the one before.
"The workload is very different from when I was working overseas in England, I have seen stuff you wouldn't see anywhere else, like young children with rheumatic heart disease."
Before the flood of additional resources, days were split into two, a day shift starting at 6.30am and a night crew taking over at 6.30pm.
Now an additional team helps to cover the busiest part of the day from midday to midnight, Mr Thwaites said, where paramedics are most likely to be called to alcohol related assaults or an elderly suffering from chest pain.
"As soon as we get a call we are on the road, it would be a very unusual case now that both ambulances were a great distance away."
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