EMS calls in P-town

I went into work around nine-thirty this morning and with LPX still down there really wasn’t anything for me to do. So I just spent time trying to do other things. But there isn’t really much I could do.

So at one-thirty I headed to Pullman. I stopped at Colfax to get my turn-outs then I drove to station two. When I got there we pulled the engine outside and unloaded the eight-hundred feet of the two-and-a-half inch hose. We were going to make more room for the high-rise packs by moving the divider bar over a little bit then reloaded all the hose.

I was on Rescue. We were moving the divider over when a call came out for a diabetic emergency. So we went to the scene. It took a while on scene getting the patient to agree to go to the hospital and getting the patient ready to go. We transported the patient to the hospital. When we were going enroute the ambulance said it was enroute to PRH with one patient. I said Rescue-thirty-two same traffic with no patient. I told Brian to say that and he said he was afraid to. I did it and he said that made his day.

When we got back to the station the hose was reloaded. Nick, Erik, and I drove the engine to the training tower to top off the tank. I was doing the engineering to get more items checked off my training sheet.

We were going to go to the Nuclear Radiation Center for training. It was a very fun training we first had some classroom stuff. In the middle of that we were called for a bravo response to the Elmhurst apartments. I drove to that one. We were on scene for about fifteen minutes and then we asked if we could get back to our training. We were allowed to go back.

We got there when they were in the reactor core. We went inside and saw a reaction taking place. It was awesome looking. The glow from the reaction was the coolest thing. It gave off a light source like I had never seen. Pictures do not do it justice. We spent about thirty minutes looking at it and asking questions about it. Only about twenty-five feet of water separated us from the actual reaction.

Glow from nuclear reaction

After we were finished in the core we got a tour through the rest of the building. They had some liquid nitrogen and we learned a little bit about that and got to play with it a little bit by putting a rubber glove into it and turning it so cold it shattered. We also got some poured on our hand it did just rolled off. At first people were a little nervous about doing it, but it was nothing to worry about.

Following the tour we got some gas and got back to the station a little after midnight.