Late night coroners case

I went into work today and started to work on some stuff with Sollen when I saw several bugs bounced back to me. I investigated the first one and found that everything was done right, like there would be a question of that to begin with, but I double checked. Everything was okay. After some work with Ricky he realized the build they were using to test our work on was hosed and they were not getting the correct results. So all the bounced bugs went back to them, but that ate up a lot of my day.

I went to the fire station around five-thirty for training on trench rescue in Pullman. Pretty much the bottom line is that we are not trained for it. We don’t have the equipment. There is very little we can actually do.

Towards the end of training we got called for someone needing a ride to the hospital. We took care of that. Following the call I watched Scrubs and House at the Deuce. Then I got some dinner and went to do some work. I was working on making some videos from some of my video tapes that I had made. I was also eating my dinner. When a call came out. I got to the station when we were cancelled. So I went back and finished my dinner.

Around eleven I started to work on some stuff for NU. I got my box put back together and talked with Ricky about the problem we had today and fixing out boxes. It was a little after midnight I heard a deputy say he was en route to the jail and to notify Paul-One. That is usually something big. I listened in some more trying to figure out what was going on. Then I heard Colfax Fire get dispatched to an attempted suicide at the jail. I listened some more and I heard an ambulance go en route to the hospital with one. So I figured a life was saved and headed off to bed. After about forty-five minutes of sleep I was woken up by my cell phone ringing. It took me a moment to realize what was making all the noise.

Mark was calling from the jail and said that Pete would like me to come down there for someone who had committed suicide. So I was running through my mind why I heard the ambulance go to the hospital and someone had died at the jail. So I was starting to think it was a double-suicide attempt or something like that.

I headed to Colfax as quick as I could with the thick fog. I got my coroners uniform on and went to the jail. I was told to go to Yellow and when I went inside the captain, several deputies, the funeral home director and Pete were there. I was quickly briefed on what happened and went into investigate the scene. Pete said seeing what I saw was very rare as most of the time the person is taken down and life saving attempts are started. This was an obvious death and the people did what they were supposed to do.

So after I did my investigation at the scene and collected some evidence we went to the funeral home to do a more thorough investigation. Once that was completed I got some pop from Jackpot Foods. Mark was down there. We talked about what had happened for about ten minutes before I headed back to Pullman. I got to bed right away. I needed to go to Les Schwab in the morning so I wanted as much sleep as I could get.’

That is when a call for a structure fire came out. We all started to head to the sewer treatment plant where someone said they could see flames inside the place. They had watched it for about twenty minutes before calling. When I heard where it was I was thinking that it was a situation where they saw the flame from the gas being burnt off. And sure enough that was the situation. So there was no emergency.