Very Busy Night

June 23rd, 2006

I covered for Dearth at the fire department tonight. It was just Ross and me. It was actually pretty tame for the first five hours of the shift. Bien was doing a ride along until eight o’clock pm. But it was quiet, so we just talked and had a good time.

I was planning on watching Rescue Me at eleven o’clock when it came on. I was watching other shows until then. Finally Rescue Me was on. We were about twelve minutes into it when call came out. Ross came down and we went to the scene. We transported to the hospital.

During the transport to the hospital I was listening to the radio. There was a pursuit going through Pullman that started in Moscow. I listened until they finally caught the person at the Pullman Grill and Bar.

Following that call we were getting the ambulance back in service when an Omega call came out for someone who needed help up. The ambulance guys told us to go on it because they were not ready yet. It was only a public assist, so we probably did not need an ambulance to go anyway.

We went en route and the ambulance form station one went as well. They were running short of people so they had already done a career callback and they also did a reserve callback. While on the scene of the public assist another call came out for someone who was unconscious. It was in the campus housing. We stayed on the public assist, and Engine Thirty-Two went from the deuce because we were tied up.

The ambulance from the hospital responded to that call. They cancelled engine thirty-two. We cleared our scene and went to get some gas. On the way to the gas station the ambulance on the call for the unconscious person called for our help. We went to that scene and helped with the transport.

Finally when we were done we went to the gas pumps and back to the Deuce. Ross and I got our paper work filled out and walked to our vehicles. Just as we said bye and shut our doors a call came out. We ran in and got ready for it. I drove code to the scene. It was about six miles West of town. En route to that call another call came out for a car accident. I was hoping to go on that one instead, but we continued to our call.

Chapman got on scene of the car wreck and called for a second ambulance and extrication. So we left the scene we were on and hightailed it to the scene of the accident, which was about fourteen miles away. The IC on scene thought that Palouse would get there quicker so he called for them. They went en route around the time we were going through Pullman. I knew at that point we would beat Palouse on scene.

We pulled up and were positioned right by the car. Ross and I got out and set up the extrication stuff. I cut the B and A posts then sent the cutters to the other side of the car. I then helped get the person packaged and out of the car. The other cuts were made and we rolled the roof of the car forward. Ross and I cleaned up our stuff and gathered all the Pullman Fire equipment then went to station one to drop it off. We went to the hospital next to drop off the sheets and blankets that were left over.

We had to go get gas again. We were finally done with the calls at about three o’clock in the morning.


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