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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 Paul Acosta on
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Responding to a child choking when I was a member of the ambulance service. I was at the garage, waiting for my partner and she never showed. I was getting angry and then a call came across the radio for a T-bone crash with injuries. I snagged a new partner and had another member go direct to the child choking call. She called us off, while we continued to the crash. Upon arrival found a van on its side and one of my fire buddies doing CPR on the driver of the vehicle. I remember him yelling to the victim to fight and hang in there. Thought this was a bit odd and realized that it was my fellow firefighter brothers. At the same time we pulled out three more of my brothers. Two were critical and the forth was helping the scene. Continued my triage and found a Toyota went into a house and inside was my partner from the ambulance who never showed. She was banged up pretty bad but was stable. She had collided with my department members at an intersection responding to the same call. At that time, I was on both the ambulance service and fire department. The one receiving CPR was a close to me because we had both joined around the same time. I transported him to the closest trauma center and did CPR the entire way while one of the paramedics was trying to save him. We lost him in the ER and cleared around midnight and I knew that we had a briefing at the station. Met the guys down there and we shed a lot of tears and didn't go to bed till around 6 that morning. My other partners from both fire and EMS recovered but it was the hardest call I ever worked on. As for the little child choking, she was fine and the family refused treatment and transport. It's our only firefighter fatality and I hope it was our last.
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I'll share a funny one also, I had a new guy who had just joined our department. We had a t-bone crash at an intersection and we were working on the extrciation. We were in the process of getting ready to extricate when the lt. called for an aluminum blanket on the victim to prevent glass cuts. The new guy went over to place the blanket on the victim and thought she was decease and that's why we called for this. He didn't realize she was only injured. As he approached her he saw her eyes open and thought it would be better to close them, (he still thought she was deceased). As he reached to shut her eyes she moaned when one of the guys moved her leg and my new guy dropped the blanket and freaked out. We all looked at him and thought, "what the hell". He looked like he had seen a ghost. Man, we still die laughing at that one in the kitchen.
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Permalink Reply by DAWN HOLBROOKS on
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In 2004 i was getting ready for work at 6am and got a call for an unresponsive patient, it was on my way to work so I went ahead and responded. When I got there my Chief and my mom were working a 3 week old baby girl. I took over bagging to give my mom a break. I laid on the floor to get closer to the baby and the entire time, tears were streaming down my face. I kept my head down so the family couldn't see because I knew we weren't going to be able to save her and the family didn't need to see my reaction. Finally the ambulance arrived and we ran out the door with her. After I handed her to the paramedics I went and sat in my truck and cried.
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Permalink Reply by Erick Wendler on
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mine was a mobile home fire we ran mutual aid to where a mother left her three children home alone with a candle burning. The candle being the cause of the fire. One of the childs got out of the mobile home with the aid of the neighbor but by the time any apparatus got on scene it was to late for the other two children. This one hit me kinda hard because at the time of the incident my son was around the same age as one of the kids.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Klaene on
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2nd call asa firefighter , 2nd one in 2 says, both automobile accidents but the 2nd one was DWi with a double fatality. We arrived and the one patient had been removed. the second one was trapped and back then we didn't do extrication. The rescue services took 20 minutes to get on scene then more to extricate. Meanwhile we spent time looking into his eyes and trying to comfort a dieing man. Seven years later I became chief and one of my first acts was to get extrication equipment and training. We no longer "watch" patients waiting on another service.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Yacovone on
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We got called a call to a car crash. Young women just turn 21 was out with her frinds partying it up. I worked with her. Walk her out to her car that night as we closed the store. She crashed in the early morning hours and no one found her till 10am the next day. I new it was her as soon as i got to the crash .
It was the hardest day of my hole life. And the day will never leave
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Permalink Reply by Station10Capt106 on
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Mine was December of 1997. We were called out around 5:30 in the morning for a two vehicle accident. On the way out we found out it involved an ambulance that responded earlier to another MVA and was transporting a drunk driver to the hospital.
Another car with a 19-20 yr old female was traveling oposite direction without any lights on. She hit the ambulance (which had lights & sirens on) head-on. She was killed instantly as she was crushed by the dash. The medic that was driving was killed from the impact of the steering wheel.
In the back of the bus the original patient died along with another medic who received a crushing blow to the back of the head. I just finished taking my EMT class from this paramedic. Another paramedic suffered a broken leg and a third one had some internal injuries and lost her unborn baby.
At the same time another MVA occurred south of town as the original patients brother was racing to town to get to the hospital to see his brother. He hit a semi headon and was also killed instantly.
It was a very emotional time for all of us. We worked very closly with these medics and it was a great loss to our community.
Needless to say we had CISD team called in. That call is still vividly seen in many of our minds and each year we hold a moment of silence as we remember our fallen co-workers.
It is times like this that really hits home and makes you think about all the possible things that can happen to you. Even when you do everything right, bad things can happen to good people.
Stay safe everyone.
John
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Permalink Reply by Nicholas Roberts on
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mine was the first call i ever ran we we paged out to a mva when we got there it was a false call on our way back My capt was driving his POV and wrecked and killed him. This will always be in my mind and to this day is still hard to deal with. Coping the loss of a fellow fireman is one of the hardest things i have ever faced and is still tough
RIP Capt Dean Stanfield
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Permalink Reply by Robbie Cox on
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About fourteen years ago we had a mutual call to assist another fire department for a mobile home fire. On the way to the fire, communications confirmed that a mother and her child were still inside. When we get there a LP gas cylinder lite off and made things very difficult. I forgot to mention it was snowing and we are not use to snow conditions. Well after the fire was out, we started the recovery process and I was asked to help. Well I sure won't ready for what I was about to see. I was one of the worst smells and worst site I had ever seen. I will never forget that call.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Kenyon on
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I haven't been doing this long, but I've already seen a few fatal MVAs and the first fatal fire in my district ever, but I'll skip those and move onto the rare/funny.
Our ambulance was dispatched for a Class 2 (BLS Lights and Siren) for a traumatic injury. Upon going enroute, County advised us that we had one pt. who was headbutted by a bull. Just to make sure, my partner went on-air with County and said; County, Did you say bull? County then advised in the affirmative. Upon arrival, we found our pt. lying on his back outside the bull's pen. After noting a large laceration and bleeding from the pt.'s head, I requested a Medic Unit. The medic was also in disbelief when he was informed of a bull attack. What amazed me the most was that our pt. was actually cracking jokes with us in the back of the rig on the way to the hospital; While he was in and out of consciousness none the less; He was actually promising us steaks from the bull after it went to the slaughter house. Ultimately our pt. was taken into surgery to remove a piece of his skull to relieve swelling, but he then made a full recovery, and had the piece of skull reinserted. It was just an oddball call that I don't see on a regular basis, so it has stuck in my head.
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Permalink Reply by two doggs on
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ok so enough about the bad fires that we all share . my heart goes out to all of you. but my crew and i respond to a car on the side of the highway with a subject doing cpr on another subject. well, upon arrival it was a couple getting it on. and no i don't mean CPR. well, it is a long stretch of highway.
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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It has been almost 8 years now. I was the tool man on my engine. Dispatched for a single vehical crash into a utility pole with entrapment. When we arrived, ems was already taking care of a 2 year old who was not in a car seat and had been thrown to the truck area of a hatch-back. There was the driver and another person all ready out of the car and walking around with 2 still entraped. With the car buried into the pole on the right hand side door of a coup. I started on removel of the drivers door and the roof. With one in the front pass. seat and one in the seat behind both pinned. As I started to cut the pass. side A post, I could not beleave what I was looking at. A good friend, just sitting there, lifeless. With out a min. wasted I keeped on cutting making my way to the back of the car so we could free the girl in the back seat, who's legs were pinned between the seats. The little 2 year old died just a few days later. I have seen people burned, crushed, shot, stabbed to death. i have seen people lost everything. But nothing can prepair you to deal with family and friends.
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