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Show *K> specific information about her condition, he had just guessed what to take in, and he had carried it all by himself. He took in these big /\rmy-surplus b a t t l e dressings, vihich was what Marianna really needed because she had a lot of massive injuries to her stomach and her back. Gary had already applied these big dressings all the viay around her and a dressing to the top of her head." By the time Janey had checked Gary's work, her supervisor Jerry Mernin arrived. "Jerry vias in charge from then on, and he told me to take over the f i r s t - a i d responsibility." Janey arranged blankets in the Stoke's l i t t e r , and with the help of the others l i f t e d Marianna from the ground onto the l i t t e r . Janey gave her oxygen. "She vias going into shock fast, and there vias so much to do with stopping her bleeding and giving her oxygen. And also by that time, vie viere deciding whether i t vias faster to carry her out to the t r a i l head and take her to the hospital, or if it would be faster to get a helicopter into the a i r ." They decided on the helicopter, radioing the park hospital to request that one be sent. Since a helicopter couldn't land in that heavily wooded area, the rangers and a few of the hikers carried the stretcher toviard a clearing, viith Janey walking alongside. Every few minutes she would ask that the l i t t e r be set down so that she could check Marianna's condition. "I'd t e l l her to took at me. I vianted to see if she could s t i l l hear me, and if she was conscious enough to open her eyes and understand vihat I was saying. I also wanted to check the size of her pupils and whether they were reacting to l i g h t . I remember so clearly the f i r s t time I asked her that - she opened her eyes and |