Sarah Pellett gave birth to her daughter Indie in the back seat of the family car, aided by husband Ryan and St John emergency medical dispatcher Nick Hancock

After the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch on 22 February 2011, St John crews responded - transporting patients from around the stricken city and treating patients in the temporary triage centre we established at Latimer Square.

It was a snowy day in August 2011 when Rebecca Barlow, 34 weeks pregnant, recognised the signs of labour. "...We’d had heavy snow falls and Church Bay, where I live, is on the far side of Lyttelton Harbour 45 minutes from Christchurch. I didn’t know how I’d get to hospital with all that snow on the roads. The fire service got called, the army got called - even the coastguard got called! Then St John phoned back and said they’d found a way to do it."

Jamie-Lee Kerr is a shining example of how a young girl can remain calm and focused during a medical emergency.