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What is/or was the most interesting or worst call you have been on?
I always find this a good conversation to get into. It is nice to share experiences with other in the field and maybe get there ideas if something else could have been done.
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on
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Oh yea, and one of my most interesting calls. lol
Wife called in her husband had been on the toilet and passed out. Obviously we were all thinking he vageled. We get there and find our 400 lbs patient, not a stitch of clothes on his body, passed out drunk, stuck between the toilet and the bathtub. Had to take the toilet up to get him out. Of COURSE there was a huge hill between the driveway and the house, and initially it was just me (I'm kinda small) and my partner that day was like in his late 50's early 60's or something. We called for some backup and 2 bigger guys from the department showed up. Still not enough. Called for more and 2 cops showed up.
We couldn't maneuver the stretcher with him on it back out to the truck so we had to drag him out in the yard on a blanket (and covered by another one so we didn't show him off to the rest of the world in all his shining glory) and then get him on the stretcher into the truck. But he also was having diarrhea and actually managed to "spray" all over one of the cops' pants leg. OMG priceless!
The patient was fine, just drunk. The cop's ego never fully healed.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Lundkvist on
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My worst call was a carcrash when a father and hes 3 years old daughter was killed. The daughter was a friend to my daughter. We tryed everything to bring them back but they was already gone to the angels when we arrived. And this was my first call.
203 Thomas
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Permalink Reply by Nic on
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One of my worst calls was an arson we had, where a father started a fire under his childs crib because he was angry at his wife for catching him fooling around. We managed to confine the fire to the room of origin, but we didn't realize what was in there till overhaul.
My oddest call was having to rescue a parrott out of a tree on a cold, windy, November night. F*ing Bird.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Bates on
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worst call was at a parade of all things. we were in line getting ready to step off, the company in front of us had already stepped off first the firefighters, then the ladies auxillary, then the trucks led by the chiefs vehicle a Ford Bronco driven by one of this companies life mebers. Well the gentleman driving the Bronco had a siezure of some sort, his foot was stuck on the accelerator, he ran down one of the ladies from behind, then veered off into the crowd on the sidewalk. The ladies Aux member was trapped under the rear gear box (pumpkin)of the truck and dragged about 50 feet or so she was partially decapitated when her head hit the curb. not only were we the first to respond, due to our proximity( our trucks were right there, but we witnessed the whole accident. i was first to crawl under the truck, i tried to feel her neck for a pulse, as i did a nother member told me not to bother that the whole rear of her skull was gone. that is when i realized iwas lying in brain matter.Needless to say we packed up our equipment and went home.....that was my first fatality unfourtunately not my last. no one on the sidewalk was hit by the truck but some minor injuries were had by people trying to get out of the way.
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Permalink Reply by Angie Taylor on
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after 12 years, i could pick from quite a few. i'm a poop magnet. i don't mean just a dark cloud. i mean the huge black kind that spawn tornadoes.
The worst most recent one was a few years ago. I was working on a medical helicopter in central Pennsylvania that was called to the scene of an accident on Route 80 westbound. It had snowed significantly that day and there had been a number of small accidents, nothing serious. We were unable to fly due to weather, so we responded by ground with a local ambulance service. Yes...we do this all the time.
There had been a 3 or 4-car pile-up with some injuries. A gentleman (definitely not local...from New York City, I believe) had stepped out of his car to help the woman in front of him. A Good Samaritan. A tractor trailer rear-ended his vehicle pinning him between his car and the woman's. By the time we got there, the FD had extricated him from between the vehicles. His legs were unrecognizable from the knees down. We started for the closest trauma center, only about 20 miles away by ground...would have been a 10-minute flight but took us about 40 minutes due to weather. We intubated him, needled his chest 3 times, and started pumping IV fluids and blood into him. We had 2 paramedics and 2 nurses in the ambulance and STILL did not have enough hands. He was bleeding so profusely that we were standing in a 1-inch deep pool of blood. At one point I looked closely at his legs to see if there was something I could clamp off with my handy hemostats....but his legs were so badly mangled that I couldn't recognize any structures. By the time we arrived at the trauma center he'd received 3 liters of saline and I was hanging the 3rd unit of blood. The trauma team was actually outside the ED waiting for us. The doc opened the ambulance doors and the blood literally poured out from the back of the ambulance.
Unfortunately, this man went into cardiopulmonary arrest THE MINUTE we transferred care. They resuscitated for about 15 minutes then called it. No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. Next time, ask me about the 70-vehicle pile-up on Route 80 with 160 injuries and 6 fatalities....and the burning load of powdered iron. WTF.
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Permalink Reply by Dustin on
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Probably one of the worst calls I've been was actually not to long ago. We responded mutual aid for a enterprise truck driver who was actually caring Brett Michaels sound equip. for his rock of love show fall asleep and cross the median and struck to vehicles. He killed two college girls 18 and 19 yrs. old and we flew 2 more out in critical. of course the driver that fell asleep went to the hospital with minor injuries. But the kicker to this one is we cleared from this scene and got back to the station and just got settled back down and got toned out for another 10-50 6 cars. a semi truck wasnt paying attention to the traffic backed up due to the first 10-50 and hit a car in the rear and throwing it in two a couple more and so on and so on. But we ended up having one more killed in that one and flew 2 more out in critical condition and we had like 15 something refusals.
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Permalink Reply by Phil Ferris on
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This one pegged the needle on the weird-o-meter.
Sunny hot weather had prevailed for several days in early September quite a number of years ago when we were dispatched to "an unknown odor" call. When I exited the ambulance the rancid smell of necrotic flesh filled the alley where we were dispatched to. I neighbor informed us that no one had seen old "rattlesnake" for about 5 days and he was worried that the smell coming from rattlesnake's house trailer. He was right to be concerned.
Rattlesnake got his nutrition at the local VFW hall. His diet usually consisted of nicotine and ETOH, and his unconventional nutritional habits finally had caught up with him, at least that is what we thought.
Well good ole' rattlesnake had been perculating and simmering in his own juices inside this house trailer for at least 4 days. We could see him lying in bed from the window, but none of us could fight our way through the putrid air to investigate any further than the front door of the trailer.
I called back to the firehall to have the air truck sent up with SCBA to we could get in to make a closer assessment. Well, needless to say once we got in there we couldn't tell if there was foul play or not because of the advanced decomposition that the remains were in so we had to call in the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP).
When the PSP detective got there he wanted to go in and see for himself what we had found. Getting this Trooper into a SCBA was a comedy in itself, but then while in the trailer he said to me "Hey, I can still smell it.", and I told him, "just think how bad it would be if you didn't have that air mask on."
After interviewing all the neighbors and all of us PSP figured it was a simple unattended death and no foul play was involved. I quickly asked the trooper if we could free up the ambulance and fire truck for someone who was still alive, and he said "sure." We boogied out of there because I didn't want to stink up my nice clean ambulance taking this guy to the morgue.
Really a strange couple of hours.
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Permalink Reply by Sam on
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Worst call would be last winter responded to a structure fire made entry on D side and ended up going through the floor luckly it was only about 4 feet down when my face met the mud and water when I raised up on my knees and looked to my right there was nothing but fire I stood up and my back-up was looking for me freaked and trying to get to the radio to call mayday. I told him to hit it with the line and then I climed my way out. Sounding the floor doesnt always work but that was the only time I ever had a problem like this hopefully the last. I found out the hard way that you really can breath under water with an scba because there was about a foot of water under the house not to mention the 6 inchs of mud from where the pvc pipes had melted.
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Permalink Reply by Bierly on
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Our department responded to a private residence with a report of difficulty breathing. The crew arrived on scene to find the victim/caller waiting for them outside, ready to go to the hospital. As they asked the patient a few questions, she informed them that it was an intermittent issue... It only really happened when she and her boyfriend had intercourse and he went really fast.....
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Permalink Reply by Matthew on
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Oddest call:
It's a tie between two, the first was last November, about 9pm and cold as hell, 911 asked us to respond to a wreck w/ possible entrapment near the county line store. We rolled out in our brush truck and engine 1 to the store, it wasn't there, we went to the store to turn around when the man who called 911 told us it was 2-3 miles toward town. We rolled that way expecting the worst only to find that the man in his haste to call 911 didn't really survey the scene, it wasn't even a 10-50. Apparently the guy was behind a semi hauling live chickens and the semi had a blowout, the guy saw the trucker swerve to the side of the road. We got on scene and it smelled horrible, when the tire blew out the chickens defficated all in the road, hundreds of them were squawking and feathers were everywhere..
The second one was a man decided to commit suicide by driving to the top of the mountain here and running a garden hose from his tail pipe through the driver window when someone drove up on him thinking he was broke down, the suicide-e threatened to kill him so the passerby left and called 911, I guess the guy wasn't serious because we got up there and no one was around..the sherrif department stuck around awhile but they never found him..
Worst call:
I guess it was a MVA w/entrapment..involved a male returning from work and two women in a car going to town..the lady driver bent over to pick something up and drifted into the other lane and hit the other man nearly head on..the man swerved into her lane to avoid her the same time as she drifted back into hers, the cars struck each other on the passenger side..all but the female passenger walked away without injury. We had to cut her out..her leg was severly broken and her femur was sticking through..she nearly bled to death but we lifeflighted her out and after a few weeks she recovered.
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Permalink Reply by Finn Volunteer on
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March of this year was my so far worst call.
Small recidential house fire, and owner of the house were missing. We were incapable to go in for a full search due to collapsed floors.
During time, basement was filled with water, and leading officer wanted someone to go in that basement to search for owner. Small basement, like 4 x 4 metres.
I picked the shortest straw and had to go in.
I changed my bunker gear to fishermans high trunks, put my helmet and SCBA on, took hose and exrta light with me.
Took two round in that basement, water level were up 1.5metres and floating all kind of things. Parts of insulation,furniture,structural parts etc. All the thinking " hope thats not that owner".
Body of this owner and his dog, were found at same time i were in that basement.
The older ones says that you never forget that smell of burn victim.
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I know. You don´t forget..
Sorry about bad writing, i haven´t write in english for a long time
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