SIGNS MAKE HILL S AFE
E M E R G E N C Y m a r k e r s have been installed along popular Castle Hill walking tracks to help identify the location and improve the ability for emergency services to quickly find injured people.
Markers will be installed 100m apart along Castle Hill Rd and the Cutheringa, Goat, Dianella, Iron Bark and West Ridge tracks.
Townsville City Council Infrastructure Committee chair Cr Mark Molachino said the emergency markers would be a great benefit to hill users.
“This has been a very successful project in partnership with Rotary Club of Townsville Sunrise to make exercising on Castle Hill safer for users,” Cr Molachino said.
Rotary Club of Townsville Sunrise president Paul Ryan said he saw the project as “potentially lifesaving”.
“Being able to communicate an injured person’s location accurately can only ensure a quicker response from emergency services,” Mr Ryan said.
“Unfortunately in the past wrong or inaccurate information has delayed our emergency services from reaching the injured so these markers will go a long way to avoiding this.”
Townsville Queensland Ambulance Service Assistant Commissioner Robbie Medlin said paramedics were supportive of the initiative.
The project is part of a wider funding arrangement worth more than $ 70,000 which will also see an upgrade to Kirwan’s Thuringowa Friendship Park.