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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 Louis N. Molino Sr. on
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In 1981 I was 16 and a Junior Firefighter in New Jersey. At that time you could take the EMT-Ambulance (Now EMT-B) course and get certified at 16. I graduated from that class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving of that year. In the week between Christmas and New Years we had a call at 0-dark-thirty for a second ambulance needed on a single car versus tree accident on a classic "Dead Mans Curve" type of hairpin curve in the next town over. By the time I made it to the firehouse they had added 3 more (total 5) ambulances as well as our FD and another set of Jaws (2 total).
My Fire Chief had me go on the Ambulance since I was one of the six certified EMT's in the department at the time. We had a one car into a tree at high speed with the car on fire, six HS kids from the towns were in the car. One was ejected and was transported in trauma arrest the other 5 well burned beyond recognition was well defined for me that night.
Never forgot that night.
Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET
FF/NREMT-B/FSI/EMSI
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Permalink Reply by Frank Torres on
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Mine was a ultra light plane crash. It was nice sunday day and we were just making breakfast. The tones went off and were
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Permalink Reply by Robert Stewart on
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Out of all the incidents i've been to the worst one would have to be the Car vs Tree fatality/incineration on the 22/11/2007
It was an ordinary Thursday i arrived home around about 13:50-14:00 hrs after spending most of the day in town doing shopping not long after walking inside put the groceries away and logged on to check email when the pager sounded its alert tone without wasting any time i logged off the internet and grabbed my turnout gear before sprinting down the station on foot
Being it was a Thursday arvo there werent many people around so only 3 of us responded which was enough on as we were approaching the scene it became apparent that the crashed vehicle had slammed into the tree then bounced off of it and landed on its roof... To make the situation even worse it was infact a toyota ute and the fuel tank had punctured on impact causing it to ignite then explode as our brigade arrived on scene
Due to there being no officers on the appliance and only myself being the most senior fire fighter on board my orders to the 2 other members was to have both side reels out as not only was the ute on fire but also some roadside grass as result of the fuel leak.... After spending 20 or so minutes containing the ute fire we found out the driver didnt make it out alive and was incinerated quite possibly mangled beyond recognition cause of the whole front end of this vehicle being pushed right into the crew cab on impact
This accident is something i'll never forget cause it happened not far out of Kalangadoo and on a day that would involve going to town then coming home to relax
Heres the original pager message from that day
MFS: INC # 32-
22/11/2007
14:16, RESPOND
RCR,KALANGADOO, KALANGADOO
MAP 0 0 0, ON RD BETWEEN
KALANGADOO AND MT BURR
NEAR DRAIN A, PEN019
KALA00 * CFS RES:
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Mine was a ultra light plane crash. It was nice sunday day and we were just making breakfast. The tones went off and were on our way. To make a long story short. To gain access to this pane that crashed in nothing but Florida's best swamps, trees and brush. We had to cut down 2 trees just to get in a area were we could walk around. Just as we were about to call it, we found something small sticking up threw the trees. We found the plane nose first in the ground. As we got to the wreck, we saw only one person in the plane. We put the leads on him, to find no rhythm. We were hot and so tired at that time. As I pulled the body to try to gain access to his paint leg for ID...I found another body. I quickly pulled the body to the side and found one of our fellow brothers laying there with no life left. He was a Captain Medic for Hillsborugh Fire. (sp? Sorry) which is the county south of mine. He was still wearing his white tee shirt from getting off shift that morning. Later on we were told that that morning he went and picked up his son to have a father son day. To find one of our brothers laying there with his sons arms wrapped around him. That will always be one of the worst calls of my carrier. Remember people. Always leave your love ones with a hug and a goodbye. It just might be your last.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Marsh on
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One EMS call that I will never forget is we responded to a check on the well being of an elderly gentleman. This man was the babysitter of his grandchild for the weekend while the parents needed to be away. Well the parents were concerned that "Pap" didn't answer the phone when they called. Thus leading us to be called. When we made entry, sure enough, "Pap" was dead on the floor of his bedroom. The toddler, around 1 1/2 - 2 yoa, was wandering around the house. We found him holding onto a pork chop bone that apparently he was gnawing on. We transported him and turned him over to the social worker at the local hospital until the child's parents could get back into town. I have a few calls that I will never forget, but I dare say that this one tugged at the strings of my heart, making it especially memorable. Peace.
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Permalink Reply by Tanner Eskra on
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one call i won't forget was a single vehicle accident that could have been much worse. there is a T intersection near my town and an elderly couple were driving, and the driver had a heart attack, and they flew through the intersection, and ramped off of and over 4 rail road tracks, landing upside down. The passenger survived, and what could have made it very bad was that a family had to hit the brakes to avoid it, i couldnt imagine how they felt, or another thing is that i rarely never see a train sitting there, most of the time there is a train sitting there, and i think about "what if that train had been there that day."
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Permalink Reply by Dan on
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WE had a working dumpster fire,caused by a smoke bomb and I had to climb in the dumpster with a buch of tastety cakes to look for the evidence as I was looking through the dumpster I got these cakes all over my turnout gear and it was very nasty.
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bell on
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mine was a single car cs tree...before i start let me give you call form a week prior.it was a single car vs tree...she ran off of an imbankment and hit a tree about 15 feet center of the tree.walked away without a scratch car was destroyed...now one week later she and a friend were drinking on a backroad in the rental from her previous wreck and hit a tree head on at high rates of speed.both were doa.the tones dropped while i was sitting at my final exam for my emt basic i had just about finished when my instuctor looked at me and said go when he realized nobody was responding.i finished 150 of 190 questions.we spent the next few hours going through sop with doa's.the next day the daughter of the deceased mother played the national anthem at the high school.we were all in tears. oh and my instructor graded my exam...92
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Permalink Reply by Tommy Thombs on
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OK, I'm the Safety Officer, my wife and daughter are both EMT's. We're dispatched to a call for a "scalp laceration", just a few blocks from home. Turns out the cause of the injury was one drunk boyfriend. We find out this little detail as he comes flying out of the back room with a bloody hammer still in hand screaming; "I'm going to kill you all!" I intercepted him before he could do any more damage. Sometimes the things you don't know will get you ... be safe out there.
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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I can still remember a couple down to exact detail. Granted I've only been in two years but I dont think I will ever forget these.
My first fatal was an EMS assist at the local highschool. It came in as an elderly male having difficulty breathing. While enroute, it changed to full arrest. We got on scene and found a basketball game going on with one of the referees laying on the gym floor. Sure enough he was not breathing and had no pulse. Of course there was a huge crowd gathered around which had to be cleared away. We immeaditly placed the pt. on a backboard and I started compressions while he was carried to the locker room. The medics arrived on scene and asked for a driver and an extra tech. for the ride. While enroute to the hospital, he ended up dying. That one was a hard one to get over.
On a lighter note... I dont think I will ever forget my first fire. It was just an old barn used for storage but it was totally involved by the time we got there. I dont think I was ever more tired yet more excited by the end of that night. Well... I should say morning, it came in around 2200 and we were on scene about six hours.
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Permalink Reply by David W. Daniel on
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My first fire call was a fatal fire. An elderly gentleman was heating up some food (Alpo no less) and fell asleep. Well you can figure the out come........Alpo heats up, catches fire, burns up the kitchen, occupant is over come by smoke and pulled from building by fire crews. I have been a member of the department for about 6 hours and I am thinking this is GREAT! The guys went in, performed a rescue and the guy has got a chance, he going to make it!
Well, you can guess my ignorance to what was really going on was prevalent. I was a volunteer in a very small and rural town in Maine. You know everyone and they know you type of town. I started this job in 1991 and when you live in a poor, rural area, your about 20 years behind most people in the country. The fire department did the best they could with the cards that were dealt.
So when the fire crew pulled the man out of the building and deposited him on the lawn, he laid there. No one to help him, no one to resessitate him, nobody even covered the body (including me, I was told "thats someone else's job"). So here I am the "new guy" thinking, again, great! He has a chance still! So we waited, and waited. Remember a small rural town. All the guys are milling about doing busy work, looking at the body, finding more busy work. And we waited.
Well the volunteer ambulance service arrived and you can imagine the scene that ensued then. People running, yelling for stuff, doing this weird pushing on this guys chest and, holy crap, someone is kissing him! Then I thought "what in the hell did I get myself into". It ends up the poor gent had passed before the fire department arrived and recovered him.
Now I am a career Firefighter / Paramedic and have seen the worst of the worst and the best of the best in people and I am continually amazed at how bad and good things can be within the communities we serve.
I guess this one call (fortunately my first call) taught me I have allot to learn. I am glad I am smart enough to have figured that out and continue to learn and train to be a better firefighter and EMS provider to this day.
Everyone stay Safe!
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