A day with some high level calls

It was around eight in the morning, only four hours after I fell asleep that the pager went off for an alpha response for someone with a swollen eye. I did not get up and get going on it because I was so tired. Then an echo response came out. I thought out it for a minute and I realized that only the ambulance was going to it because the others were going to the other call. I thought that if CPR was needed there would be no one there to help out with it.

So I went to the station and I saw a bunch of rigs already there. I thought I was going to get assed out. When I realized they were all there for the EMT class. So Brian and I went on the call. It turned out to be a BLS call when it was all said and done.

When we got back to the station I helped him wash Rescue. Then I washed Engine by myself because it was really dirty from the full-timers using it and not washing it this morning. When I was done washing it Paul helped me take off the chains and we rinsed those off. I got Paul and Tony to pose for some pictures for the knox box brochure that we are going to give out to people so they can learn about buying one for their home.

I went home and started to work on the pictures when we got another call. It was another high-level call. So I went to the station and I drove on this one. Once we were done with that Rescue did not need a washing. So I went back home and finished working on the brochure. When I was done with it I went back to the station to print it off.

I was also going to spend some time playing on the department website. I want to see if I can do something with tables and a menu. The way the site is set up there is some limitations to what I can do. So I hope I can do it.

After spending some time working on it and not getting anything to work I gave up because I was really tired. I drove to Colfax and got some food. I went to the fire station and hung out with Ken. I ended up staying there for a couple hours talking and watching TV with Ken. He grabbed a pizza from Bulldog. I think it was one that was not picked up. They will call the FD to see if we want them.

I went home and I was only there for a little while when a call came out for someone who crashed into the river. I went to the station and made the ambulance. En route we found the person was out of the river and safe. So we continued in to make sure the patient was okay and gave them blankets to keep warm.

We hung out on scene until after the car was pulled from the river. A tow truck came and we helped them out a little bit with making sure the guy was safe going into the river. We tied a rope to him and put on a life jacket. He got the car hooked up and we watched it get pulled out.

I went back to the station and got my truck. I took my truck to the hospital to get some linen to replace everything we used from the ambulance. Then I went back home and watched some TV for a while before going to bed.