Okay. So now you have two people stranded in a difficult to reach place.
Keep in mind that the idea of a paramedic is to stabilize trauma and provide very high level first aid. The writer implied that the pack is more a search and rescue device. Instead imagine you fall on a trail 5 miles from a crossing. Your leg is broken with an open fracture and the bone protruding, or maybe you had a heart attack. Your hiking partners are competent in wilderness First aid but you need more than they can offer.
One partner takes note of your injuries and runs the five miles to the trailhead and is able to make a call from there. (Remote trails often don’t have coverage)
The search and rescue team arrives and you are able to give them an approximate location. A paramedic straps up on the jet pack and is able to travel the five miles in 10 minutes while the rest of the extraction team gears up with a stretcher and other gear and begins to hike. At 3 miles an hour, it takes 90 minutes for the hiking partner to get to the trailhead, 30 minutes for search team to arrive, 75 minutes to hike to the accident site then treatment may begin.
With a jetpack, the response time is cut by at least 70 minutes. The paramedic stabilizes you and you’re ready for the 90 minute stretcher ride out courtesy of the SAR team.
This makes perfect sense to me.
FYI, I’m a backpacker and Wilderness First Aid certified.
You’re able to get a call out