Slow day at the fire department

November 4th, 2005

I got a few of my bugs completed and turned in. Actually only two of them. But I am working away on them. I am going to try to get as many or all of them completed before the end of November if I can.

I was on call at the fire department. I came down for rig checks. A call came out and we went in route only to be cancelled en route. So we turned around in the driveway and parked the rig. I talked to Andy a little bit about his job offer with Seattle FD. Tonight was his last night. We did get one call that was pretty big, but for the most part it was quiet.

The called was for a guy who had fellen from about ten feet up and hit his head on the sidewalk. He was bleeding pretty badly and it was a PUHA situation. Rescue got on scene and helped package the guy and sent him off. Then Josh and I cleaned up the sidewalk. We first put Red-Z on the blood. Then we scooped as much as we could. But there was a fair amount of blood left, so we called the engine to see if they could come and spray it down.

At first we were told to use some bottled water. But that did not do anything to help. So we told the engine it did not do anything. They came by from the hospital and we hooked up a pony line and sprayed it down. There was still some left the water pressure would not get, but for the most part it was taken care of. A cop asked to use the shovel and get the rest.

We went to the hospital and got Andy, who went with the ambulance. Then we went to station one to get the shovel decontaminated and to get some more Red-Z for the rescue.

A few hours later we were dispatched for a guy who was really drunk in the big parking lot next to the tennis courts. We transported him to the hospital. That was it for calls on this dad’s weekend at WSU.


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