Abbie Skellee was told that she would be the first of the Skellees to be called to a rescue on this sunny day.  She was not sure what time she would be called by the  operator of the Skellee Rescue service and, of course, she never knew what type of rescue she would have to go to.

Memories of the many thousands of rescues she had already attended to, started to come back to her.  She smiled thinking of the one in Canada last winter and then the recent one in Ireland.

Just as she had everything ready to go, she decided she probably had enough time to have a glass of fresh orange.  But as she started to drink it, the phone rang and this is where the Abbie Skellee story begins …