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What is That One Call
What is That one call you will never forget..Sad Funny Rare or anything else...tell us about it
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Permalink Reply by Doug on
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Mine was a structure fire, fatality mother, baby and two children. removed the baby before house flashed over on us. two firefighters left through windows and two of us left through the door. the mother and the two children were recovery after the bulk of the fire was knocked down. worked on baby but could not revive her. the recovery was worse having to go back in after the fire.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Compton on
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I have been in this business for a long tome and have several. One that sticks out had a 16 year old girl killed in an MVA. We worked her but was pronounce in the ED. while writing my report her parent showed up did not know she had passed panic in their voice's as they asked what room she was in at the reception window. I knew what they did not. First time I cried following a call. I had a great friend get shot in the throat could not save him. I had to call his mom who I had know for years to come to the Hospital. on a liter note Funny was the man who had a burnning groin he was having sex for the first time he kept saying that B**** did somthing to me I am on fire, he hopped in the ambulance yanked his pants off my partner started to pour NS on it. Turns out he was allergic to latex first time he had a condom on.
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Permalink Reply by Tyler Jett on
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One call that I will never forget is, One day me and my dad were getting off of the amma exit and the traffic was backed up a mile from Wallback to the amma exit. We were getting off the interstate when the tones went off and we knew where we were going. so we got on scene and there was one car totally split in half. The driver had a allaceration to the head and there was three other vehicles in volved. We ended up landing health net for him.
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A lot of bad memories in 30 years but here is one that has to be rare. We responded to a grass fire in a vacant field near a housing addition. The odd thing was there was a thunderstorm in the area and it was raining cats and dogs. How can you have a grass fire in the middle of a torrential downpour? Anyway when we arrived on scene sure enough there was a fire in the middle of the field, but there was thick black smoke coming from it. That just didn't look right for a grass fire. So we took our brush pumper out and sprayed water on it. Bad idea, we almost lost the brush pumper, the water made the fire much worse. After extinguishing the fire with about seven or eight dry chem extinguishers used all at once we found out what was going on. Lightning had struck a utility pole in the field and traveled down a ground wire that was attached to a pipeline running under the ground. The force of the srike broke open the pipeline and set the material in it on fire, crude oil. This has to be one of a kind, or is it? Has something similiar ever happened to someone else?
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Permalink Reply by Matthew on
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Worst Call:
Paged out to a 55 year old man, unresponsive. I drove straight to the scene in my POV (address was really close to my house) as me and my two best friends (who also are in the same dept) got close to the scene my uncle, also in the dept radioed 911 asking how far out the ambulance was. I could tell by his tone it wasn't good, we pulled up and the man had a massive heart attack while leaving his car, he was standing up, leaning against the car when his parent's called 911. By the time we pulled up on scene he had fallen to his knees and as we approached the man he fell all the way over. He died before any of us could even begin CPR, which we did but it failed to bring him back. The absolute worst part was to see his parents, both elderly, watch us do CPR. We stayed positive and did all we could...the worse part for me was when they realized that he had died, just to hear his mother weeping uncontrollably was what broke my heart because I knew there wasn't anything I could do to make it better. I knew the couple very well, all I could do was hug her neck and say I was sorry.
Funniest Call:
Paged out late at night on a bitterly cold and windy night to a "MVA w/unknown road blockage and possible entrapment". Got on scene to find a chicken truck had a blowout, the only "victims" were the poor chickens who had such a traumatic awakening, they were squawking and flapping their wings, throwing feathers and s*** everywhere. There was chicken crap in the road, on mailboxes, feathers were blowing across the road, sticking to the mailboxes. You couldn't even hear yourself think.
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Permalink Reply by BRAD ANKERS on
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I have been a volunteer fireman for alomost six yrs. we all have the good, the bad and the ugly calls. On the lighter side of things, this one was gd. Thanksgiving sunday 2007 around supper time, we got toned out to a portapotty(johnny on the spot) on fire at our local park.When we arrived all that was left was the skid underneath the outhouse!!!. On the sad side of things, was my first fatal mva. We got the call to a sinlge vehicle mva, in a small community in our area. This communty isn't very big so my first reaction was, how bad can it be, maybe just a wash down of the road, with a little clean up, WRONG!! When I arrived on scene there were parts scattered every where. Long story short, air ambluace, occupant died 3 days later, come to find out, i had known the guy for almost 10 yrs. Still think about it to this very day and every day.
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Permalink Reply by D.C. Sterbenz on
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Well I have a few... They all include kids, they all stick with me from peds deaths to peds in fire deaths, to peds standing outside watching there home burn down. I have forgot the ones I save but I always remember the ones I didn't.
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Permalink Reply by Jacob Fouts on
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I have two.....
The first call was a pretty tragic accident on WA SR18 in November 2000, about 1900 hours, we were sitting at the station which was right off of the freeway. We had just finished chores and were getting ready to play a game of cribbage when we heard a loud boom from outside. We all kinda looked at each other, and went back to what we were doing when we heard the doorbell ring. We went up front and all we heard out of the mouth of the citizen was trucks...highway...fire... right at that moment we heard the house tones go off for a two semi accident on the highway.
As we pulled out of the station we turned to look at the overpass over the highway, and all we could see were flames coming up from under the overpass. We pulled down onto the highway and uturned to see a wall of fire covering the entire highway and all you could see was a tail end of a semi trailer sticking out. We only had 750 gallons, and that was gone almost instantly. We had only 2 engines and 1 aid on the initial dispatch. We called for a commercial response to get us more water and were able to establish a supply about 10 minutes into the call. It was unclear if there were any vehicles other than the semis involved, however we understood that there was no chance of survival for anybody in the middle of the fireground. We battled the fire for about an hour and a half and finally got it under control with foam from a crash truck from a local aerospace company.....
We were able to determine it only involved two semis head on. From eyewitness accounts it sounded like both semis were doing between 60 and 65. Neither of them hit their brakes or even saw it coming. Combined impact of approximately 120 mph, both semis fully loaded...one hauling giant rolls of paper and one hauling a full load of Pillsbury pastries. The motor of one of the trucks was ripped clean of the truck and thrown about 100 feet. The driver of that truck was thrown clear through the windshield and into the trailer of the second truck. He was almost unrecognizable. The occupants of the second truck (male driver female passenger) were both found inside their truck pretty much in the same spots they were riding in. I hope that they were killed instantly and there was no suffering. The highway was closed for almost 2 days while they cleaned up. To this day there are still scars on that roadway where the fire melted the asphalt. This call will stick in my mind forever. I'll save the second one for later.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Cano on
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I will never forget this one: I was riding out with EMS during training and we got a call for bleeding, when we got to the house there were hysterical family members outside waving at us and pretty and led us to their daughters room.
When we went in she was in her bathroom sitting over the toilet. There was blood every where. She was screaming and kept flushing the toilet. The paramedics were trying to calm her down and were asking her the regular what, where questions. Then I heard a gurgling sound coming from inside the toilet and we lifted her up and hanging from her umbilical cord was a beautiful baby. The 18 year old kept denying it was a baby.
The paramedics told me to go get an OB kit off the ambulance and me being a trainee did not know what an OB kit was or where it would be for that matter so I ran in there with an O2 tank. I thought, it started with an O and better than running back in the house empty handed.When I got inside, one of the guys went back to the unit with me and told me to get the stretcher while he got the OB kit. We went back inside and put the girl on the stretcher and the baby in the blanket, the parents and family members started screaming at us saying that we brought the baby in, that their daughter was not pregnant, that we were evil for doing this to their family.....
Oh well, at least the baby was ok when we got to the hospital. This was in June 1987, I graduated from the Fire Academy in August 1987. Almost 22 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday... One of the many calls that I will never forget.. even though I wish I could sometimes...
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Permalink Reply by michael smid on
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coming home from my day job and seeing the cops with a vehicle pulled over and getting a call an hour later to reroute traffic for 12 hours because the trunk was full of dynamite
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Permalink Reply by Padre Pete on
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There is a pattern here guys. Funniest are outnumbered by tragic by at least ten to one. I have never lost a friend in a fire but personal experiences have let me relate to virtually all of the other stories. I believe a basic and intuative need for critical incident stress debriefing is being played out here. Thats a good thing. Keep The Faith
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