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First responders are the backbone of society. They extinguish fires, chase down criminals, resuscitate the gravely injured, and do so much more so that everyone can safely return to their families. These jobs put the brave men and women who undertake them in situations the rest of us hope we never have to face.
However, Reddit user Catsugh got interested in the moments that take by surprise even those dealing with emergencies on a daily basis. So, she asked them to describe the most memorable calls they've ever had. Here are the replies she has received.
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#1
I do Search and Rescue work.
Got a call to respond to a missing lady in her 60s, gone overnight. Police had been searching for hours with no luck, so by the time I got there she had been missing for over 16 hours.
This was my K9s first search ever, so I was super nervous but also proud that we could help. The police kept trying to hold me to a small 10 acres set of woods but my gut said trust my dog, she wasn't there.
The police officer got angry with me and decided to go back to the 10 acres while I continued with my K9 into a new area. 5 mins later my dog gives an alert and I watch which way she went. I climbed over a huge tree to find the lady standing there in shock. She went passed out as soon as I said who I was and asked her what her name was.
After years of being told I was wasting my time, my dog was s**t, and if I wanted to do SAR I should get a real dog, it was the most amazing feeling in the world. My K9 is almost retired, has multiple finds and a recovery under her paws now, and she is just simply amazing.
Edited for dog tax! Peanut
Hobby Hopper 7 months ago
It's shocking how easy it is to get lost in the woods, but most bad situations are a progression of mistakes, not just one. Maintain your situational awareness. If something goes wrong, stop and take the time to think it through. And, don't let "get-there-itis" take over. Better to bail or change your plans then end up in a bad situation.
Crystalwitch60 7 months ago
Thank you gpfor your loyal service furbaby ❤️❤️huggles from the uk x
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#2
Harley motorcycle tipped over and the clutch lever went into a 4 year old's eye. Parent was on the line asking what to do. Suddenly, she said, "They're going lift the motorcycle." I emphatically told her to tell them to stop and wait for rescue and EMS. Rescue ended up cutting off the clutch lever and transporting the kid to hospital. She underwent surgery. That was 1982. Just last year, I met the lead rescue officer and the girl herself, now fully grown. They wanted to meet the 911 operator that saved her vision.
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
Also applies to stab wounds. Especially if you get stabbed with, say, a serrated kitchen knife. (I haven't had it happen, but it can happen to someone accidentally). This keeps the blood inside the person until absolutely needed for it to come out, when the medics can get the situation sorted
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The Cute Cat 7 months ago
You are true manifestation of the right man/woman in the right place
Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago
My neighbor kids (8 & 10) got an archery set for Christmas. Typically, they were playing in the backyard unsupervised. Older accidently shot younger in the upper chest. I watched it happen in slow motion. I was over the fence in a heartbeat and got to the kid just as his Mom was going to pull the arrow out. I practically had to tackle her to stop her. EMTs told her if she had pulled it out, he would have bled out before they arrived.
weatherwitch 7 months ago
Thank fk for the positive outcome. That must have been horrific to experience
It's important to remember that the police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and other professionals behind these stories are still people, and constantly dealing with life-threatening situations takes a toll on you.
A few months ago, for example, New York State released an assessment of its first responders' mental health needs.
More than two-thirds (68%) said they experience stress, while 53% reported they have had symptoms of depression. Burnout (59%) and anxiety (52%) were among the other mental health challenges identified by the respondents, with 38% saying they’ve had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder as well.
#3
Former Deputy. One morning I was the early person in to take calls as the night shift was headed out and to cover what trickled in as shift change took place.
It's cold and rainy and miserable all around. I'm on my way to someone's house to talk to them about a phone scam when a call comes out to another unit who just marked on duty. He lives across the county from where this call came out. A mother has called in stating her little girl got out of the house while she was getting her ready for a bath. Her daughter is non-verbal and naked and mom can't find her.
Everyone that owned a radio in the county started to mark in route, last night's shift, court bailiffs, the d**n Major-everyone was coming. I actually had to wait to get onto the radio to let dispatch know I was now in the area, turning onto the road.
The way this road was situated was a hairpin turn off a highway that led to a dead end at a lake with a stretch in the middle of it going up towards the houses. As I make this right turn and am about to head up towards the residence, something catches my eye. This litte girl is standing at the edge of this lake, just staring at it.
I bolt from my car, snatch her up in my coat, and start hoofing it back towards the houses. Some stranger just grabbed her and she's crying and trying to wiggle free. Mom sees me about half way and nearly tackles me as she comes in for the biggest hug probably any of us has ever experienced. The baby was cold, but safe, and unharmed.
We made sure to get mom in contact with a resource that would get her little girl a tracking bracelet and she rejoiced to learn that such a thing existed.
A couple days later, the mom delivered flowers and a card to me at the office. I still have it, years later, and it still makes me smile.
Sure, there's some stories of horrible things, but there's also good calls you can't forget. Although I have real mixed feelings about my time in law enforcement, I know that day I did good.
#4
Firefighter emt recent call actually still fresh in memory only 2 days ago fatal accident 16 year old female deceased at the scene low speed (20kmh) accident but airbags deployed shouldve been a simple move the cars get them home but she had her feet on the dashboard and the airbags broke her legs one pierced her heart the other d**n near decapitated her
so if you ever get the idea putting your feet up on the dash is a good idea...dont.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 7 months ago
Given all the horror stories (and pictures) on the internet, I'm amazed people still need to be told this.
Angela Corvaia 7 months ago
I have seen XRays of people that did this and had an accident. Leg bones should not pierce the pelvis. I also went to college with a brother and sister who were in an SUV and had their pelvic seatbelt on but not their shoulderbelt (backseat). Their parents fell asleep and veered off the road, parents died and both bro and sis had their spines pretty much sliced. He was in a wheelchair and she lost about 6 inches of her body. They both broke my heart because they were awesome but told me that they will spend their lives together because who would want to be with a c*****e. They were in college with me...I only knew them for a few months and then lost contact. I still think about them 30 years later.
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megabeth 7 months ago
I've heard not to put my feet up on the dash, still do on long trips. I was thinking more like could break a leg.... Oof. Hopefully this reforms me of my habit. So tragic.
Daddy’s Girl 6 months ago
Even before airbags this was a terrible idea. Never ever put your feet on the dashboard
Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
We are going to learn this lesson the easy way. By hearing this story from you. I feel terrible for the teenage. Such a horrible outcome from a little mistake!
#5
This isn't mine, but a friend of mine fielded this call. An elderly gentleman called 911 to notify them that his wife had passed in her sleep. Only it was like 7 o'clock at night. Apparently he just couldn't deal with it emotionally, so he got her dressed, took her out to the car, and drove around doing his errands for the day. Watched some TV together. And then after 12 or so hours he finally sort of accepted that she was gone and called 911.
Ray Heap 7 months ago
Disagree, he was able to say goodbye on his own terms and that is beautiful.
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Deborah B 7 months ago
I've heard a similar one, where the elderly wife had died in the afternoon or evening, and the husband put her to bed and slept beside her. In the morning he called it in, saying that he had expected he would die in his sleep, and they would go together. He had a fatal heart attack a few days after her funeral.
murmelinpaiva 7 months ago
One of my grandmothers died in her sleep and the police investigated. She had a heart condition. Her friends all said it was a good way to go. I didn't understand at the time [age 8], but I do now.
Tabitha 7 months ago
My husband and I are both in our sixties now, and this is a scenario that periodically runs in my head. I just know I’m going to outlive my husband, and I dread the day I wake up and he doesn’t. I try to push the thought away when it comes up, but sometimes it just pushes back harder. I’ve been aware of my own mortality for a while now, and I’m pretty much mentally prepared for that. But I’ve only more recently realized just how old the two of us are, and my husband’s mortality is so much harder to think of and prepare for than my own.
Justme 7 months ago
I’m nearly 20 years younger than my husband and I have this intrusive thought too. I check for breathing sometimes when he is napping soundly because I am so scared for that awful day, and can’t help but wonder what am I going to do without him. I hope its many years away, but it is inevitable, and it will be devastating.
Load More Replies... Yayheterogeneity 7 months ago
This is not wrong nor is it forbidden. You are allowed to keep the deceased in your home just call someone to register that no wrong-doings went on but apart from that you can keep the deceased in your home for some time. That was in fact very normal some 50 years ago still and should still be today, if you wish so.
The Cute Cat 7 months ago
That is pure love.. Hope the old man found solace.. At least he can accompany her until the end..
Jane Hower 6 months ago
Strong man to move 'dead' weight around like that. And very sad of course.
The aforementioned New York assessment also discovered that the vast majority of first responders — over 90% — agree that mental health services, such as support groups and therapy, would help them if they were accessible and free.
However, 80% also acknowledge that the stigma associated with mental health is an obstacle to seeking assistance.
Hopefully, we can all work together to remove these barriers to pay back the heroes looking out for us.
#6
I'm not a first responder but in 2007 my 4 friends and i were driving home at 2am one night on the highway (no we were not drinking that night) and up ahead in the distance i could faintly see something in the middle of the road (it was pitch dark) and i slowed down and kept saying "uh wtf is that?" over and over again..well we slowed down and realized it was a black car with NO headlights on just sitting in the middle of the road **demolished**..i pulled over and me and all my friends sprinted to the car and checked it to see if anyone was inside, there was a woman in driver's seat who definitely didn't survive the initial crash, face just completely embedded into the windshield (i can still see this image til this day) and we were looking as fast as we could because we were in the middle of i95 and thankfully no other cars had come by..we heard a child faintly crying and my friend looks in the backseat and sees there is a child in a car seat who didn't look injured, so we tried to open the door and it wouldn't fully open due to the damage to the car, so we all had to pull at this door to get it open and let me tell ya, as easy as it sounds that was no easy task for four 18 year old kids, but eventually we got it open just enough to get in there and pull the child out, we get to the side of the road and in the blink of an eye a semi comes full speed and pulverizes the car and drags it about 100 feet before coming to a complete stop..we called the state police and they came 15 minutes later and we waited with the child until they came and questioned us...we were called heroes by all the officers. later investigations revealed that she came around the turn too fast and hit the guardrail and died on impact.
on the way home nobody made a f*****g sound.
Anonymouse 7 months ago
One reason to have flares/lights in your trunk. Marking someone there so traffic can avoid you!
Hobby Hopper 7 months ago
I'm really glad the teens were all okay and that they got the kid out, but, and I'll probably be downvoted for this, if it was my kid, I wouldn't want them to play the hero. This so easily could have turned out worse, and then there would be 6 casualties instead of 2.
Catlady6000 7 months ago (edited)
Upvoted, not because I agree with you, but because I also...agree with. This is definitely a train is coming but you can only save 1 person or 5 people situations. Either way there is often not a good answer or outcome. It this case it went very well
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Pamela Blue 5 months ago
I can't think of anything that would make four 18 year old kids think twice about how safely and fast they drive. An awful way to find out, but effective.
Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
Good for you guys. I love to hear stories like yours. Makes me believe the world will be in some good hands in the future!
#7
I responded POV to a motorcycle crash as a volunteer EMT in a small mountain town. A lady was coming down a rocky canyon when (her husband believes) she likely feel asleep (medically related drowsiness in her history). She launched "Dukes of Hazard" style off the road edge about 50ft with a 30ft drop into a mat of bushes. Her body hit and snapped a 4-5" diameter fir tree. There were civilians all over and down in the ditch helping her already. No LE on scene yet, volunteer FD just arriving, and Air Med in route, too.
I get down to her and she is on a good samaritan's backboard. After a quick assessment and some ABCs mitigation I decide it's best to get her to the road - we can hardly stand in the brambles and taking vitals is a nightmare. With the help of civilians and the local type 4 forest service fire engine we got her up to the road.
(The extent of her injuries were later relayed to us by the Air Med service) She had rapid and irregular breathing but absent breath sounds (both lungs were collapsed) on both sides, weak/thready radial pulses, blown pupil, broken collarbone, broken tib/fib, broken lumbar, broken ribs, a lacerated liver, her vitals were not good and she would only make pain noises, sometimes the words were audible about her back pain. Convening with the flight medics, her outlook did not look great and I helped load her up into the bird thinking she would be lucky if she made it to the hospital.
Fast forward a year(ish) later, she WALKED into the Forest Service I worked at looking for me to say thank you. I was in the field that day, so I was not able to meet with her, but it was a great reminder as to why I got my EMT in the first place. I was astonished and so thankful to hear of her recovery.
Edit: Thank you so much for the awards! There are a lot of stories on both sides of the spectrum in this field and often the awful ones stick around for a while. I'm glad when I read this prompt that a heartwarming story came to mind. Thank you reddit community! I'm so glad she made it and I hope to run into her at that trauma conference someday.
Marissa D 7 months ago
POV: privately owned vehicle EMT: Emergency Medical Technician LE: Law enforcment FD: Fire department. Hope that helped :)
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dayngerkat 7 months ago
I hate when people expect others to know what their acronyms and terminology means
Al Padilla 7 months ago
I know what you mean. As a doc, I realize that lots of groups have their own "language," consisting of (to "normal" people) obscure acronyms and terms. But less annoying than the asterisk-infested censorship by BP. (Bored Panda)
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Be_ Heard 7 months ago
Im from the states... i didn't know what must if those meant. No need to be rude
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Man called to report a male was breaking into his neighbors vehicle across the street. A few minutes into the call the man came and started to break into the callers vehicle. A few minutes later the man spotted my caller and broke into his house from the window. Spent 10 minutes listening to physical fight when I finally heard the police enter the house and say “there’s blood everywhere.” Both intruder and caller died. Oh, and another 911 dispatcher had my callers wife and kids on another line who were hiding upstairs and heard everything.
I talked a lot of people who were shot/stabbed/beaten in the final moments of their lives but you usually get them after the situation occurred. This caller was just trying to look out for his neighbor and I spent a good 15-20 minutes bantering while waiting for officers to arrive and get the auto thief. Getting to joke around and get to know someone’s personality before they violently die hit a lot different than taking a call after violence had occurred.
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
My area of 3-4 towns, each about 15-20 minutes apart, shares police overnights during the week, so I can imagine it taking that long.
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Victor Botha 7 months ago
I live in South Africa in one of the largest cities (Johannesburg) I woke up to an intruder in my room. Jumped out of bed and tackled him. Got stabbed with my own bread knife before he fled. It took the police 3 hours to respond (police station is less than 3 kms from my home) The xmbulance and security companies responded within 5 to 35 minutes of me making the call to the crime hotline.
Sylvia Baker 7 months ago
That's why we have firetrucks sent out immediately as they usually get there before anyone else.
Trillian 7 months ago (edited)
For every situation like this you have multiple school shootings, gun accidents and people shooting accidental trespassers. Proper hands is law enforcement, not civilians.
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Got a call for a s******l male. Went to the house, and we could see through the glass someone holding a big knife, but it looked to be a female (it was some type of stained glass stuff). So we ask what's going on and if Brian (names have been changed) was home. She yelled "Brian isn't here anymore!" Which you know, isn't great to hear from someone holding a knife. So we make entry into the house, and after much confusion, figure out that the lady we saw through the window was actually Brian, and was transitioning (or had transitioned) to Brianna. She was in her 50s, and had been struggling for a long time because she'd worked at a place with the same coworkers for 20 years, and after starting her transition she was made fun of and left out of conversations. Her family wasn't supportive, and apparently when she went online to seek help from groups, she was too old and wasn't accepted by them either. So she wanted to k**l herself because of how alone she felt.
I was able to chat with her for a while, and convinced her to go to the hospital with me (she was going to go regardless, but there's less stress/danger for everyone if they come voluntarily). When we arrived at the hospital, she said she was too scared to get out of the car. My shift had ended like 30 minutes earlier. I asked her if holding my hand would help. She said yes. So I get out of the car, and hold her hand walking into the hospital. I'm 5'6", and she's at LEAST 6'2" and outweighs me by 100+ pounds. So I'm holding her hand, and my hand is like at eye level for me, lol. We go in, and I tell the nurse at the ER that this is Brianna and she's having a bad night (code for wanting to k**l herself). The nurse gets her a room, which is where we part ways. I say something to her about getting help and happier days ahead, and she quietly asks for a hug before I go. I say sure and give her a hug.
Sometimes I wonder if she found a support group, and if not, if she's still around. I hope so.
Skogsrået 7 months ago
Too old to transition? Wow, people are aholes, ageism is a big problem in society and not nearly enough spoken about. Don't discriminate against older people, you will get old too someday.
Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago
The younger you start, the 'better' (more 'passable') the results will be. People transitioning after 30 are considered 'old' by the community. Obviously having lived in a wrong body for 50 years makes you different from young people transitioning after puberty blockers. But support for older people transitioning is clearly lacking.
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Definitely a Human 7 months ago
Yeah, the inability for people to accept trans folk
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Working as a deputy sheriff. Got a 911 call to the local park for a dead body. Got there and this lady with a flashlight waved us down. As we approached we yelled out asking if she was the caller. She said yes. We yelled out again where is the body. She said right here, pulled out a gun, and k**led herself right in front of us. She wanted to make sure we found her body before the kids showed up the next morning to play in the park.
PHOTOBOB 7 months ago
At least she wanted to be sure kids did not find her. We had a murder s*****e by shotgun where they knew darn well their grandkids would find them when they got home from school. They have a special place in Hades.
DaisyBee 7 months ago (edited)
Selfish to wait until they were there to do it. She could have rang it in, then done it, they’d have still found her before any children did. I don’t want to hear any “oh she wasn’t thinking clearly”. I’ve been s******l twice, not ONCE did I ever want to inflict my pain on someone else
veryvenasaur 7 months ago
I won't say she wasn't thinking clearly because that isn't exactly right but it feels like she was desperate to know for sure her kids wouldn't be harmed and forgot to think about the mental health of the responders. For the record I have also been suicida| and I can understand the tunnel vision you can have. I just can't call it selfish since it feels wrong to me to talk bad of someone who felt so much pain. I suppose I just imagine a world in which I'd gone through with what I was going to and my little sister found me I wouldn't want people to think I didn't care about her. Thanks for listening to my rant I hope you are doing well and have a wonderful day.
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#11
I once had a call from a 11 year old girl who was just stabbed by her stepfather, she kick him in the b***s and went to hide and call 911. She was scared and I stayed on the line until her stepfather found her. The last thing I heard was her yelling no please don't do it again. Then I heard an angry yell then gurgling. Turns out he stabbed her in the neck one minute before the police got there. I quit the next day.
Skogsrået 7 months ago
Been staring at this story for 10 mins now crying, don't know if i can finish this list. This world can be so dark and horrible.
Crystalwitch60 7 months ago
Please please tell me that inhuman stepfather was jailed and let in gen pop being a child killer would have got him karma by the other prisoners they loath scum like this bloke that poor poor little angel 💔💔x
veryvenasaur 7 months ago (edited)
I have never in my life before advocated for the death penalty but I hope he was m******d. EDIT M U R D E R E D my gods bp it's a word I've seen it in children's books
Load More Replies... Jac Carr 7 months ago (edited)
People like that need to be wiped off the face of the earth and not years down the line after it's cost hundreds of thousands to keep them breathing. If they know someone did it - DNA & confession - get rid of them within a month
Abe Hartman 7 months ago
The whole point of those years is to ensure that they're guilty. It's really not that simple.
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Was he caught, imprisoned? Killed? Can’t access the original thread as don’t have an account and it’s marked mature
Ellie Vanille 7 months ago (edited)
The post is from 4 years ago and I had to scroll down quite a lot until I finally found a comment asking about the stepfather. OP answered : "Hes on death row awaiting execùti0n." But there is no other information on this case so I don't know where it's at now.
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Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
I'm not surprised that you quit after that! That must have been terribly traumatic for you.
Angela Corvaia 7 months ago
I watch "I Survived" and I wish this little angel could have been on it to tell her story....
#12
Someone called stating they had seen a man on a small island on the lake hours ago but now the man was gone and his boat is still out there.
An older woman called in a half hour later stating her husband had gone missing, he was last seen taking his boat out on the lake sometime overnight. The increasing tension in her voice as she noticed sheriff's deputies were already dredging the lake was something else. She was calm but clearly actively dealing with the fact her husband was likely dead. They found his body not long after I hung up with her.
Sometimes it's the people screaming that get to you, sometimes its the quiet acceptance of a horrible truth that stays with you longer.
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
I am so grateful for people that can do this kind of work. I know I couldnt.
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
The way I read it, the lady could see the people dredging the lake, not told
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My father used to be a 911 dispatcher; was also an EMT for 5 years and a fire fighter for over 30 years.
Worst call he ever took was a women who called that her house was on fire. She was trapped in the burning house and could not get out. First responders did not make it in time. He had to stay on the line with and listened to her as she burned to death.
He also witnessed, while responding to a s*****e call, one of his friends shoot himself in the face with a shotgun. He was still alive after the shotgun blast. They saved his life.
He also responded to an ATV rollover of one his friends kids. ATV landed on the kids face. Shattered his skull. His jaw was not longer attached. My dad had to hold his face together while they transported the kid to the hospital. An over 45 minute drive. Kid survived.
There are countless other calls that I could tell, my dad has witnessed a lot. Nicest man you will ever meet.
BookFanatic 7 months ago
Yep. Here's a kitty to help you feel better. This is Snafu. : ) Snaffy-681...1d35d5.jpg 
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 7 months ago
And this is why kids shouldn't be on ATVs/quadrunners/dirtbikses etc. Simple common sense.
I am the rat in your walls 7 months ago
i really feel sorry for the lady, but this is my biggest fear about responders. what if they came too late
Nadine Debard 7 months ago
There was a terrible fire last year in my city, in an apartment block. 10 people died (4 children from the same family). Some people threw themselves out the windows (including the elder brothers of the young victims). The fire was so big they decided to take the risk, and some of them survived even if they were badly injured. The firefighters were there in 20 minutes. It took 3 hours and 170 firefighters to stop the fire. Horrible story.
Load More Replies... Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
I'm glad he worked at jobs where his kindness would be more than appreciated!
Atom Bohr 7 months ago
Please can we stop using "a women" in place of "a woman". This originated in the manosphere and it's a way of deindividuating singular women. It's gross. Please stop
Kat 7 months ago
I see your point but it was likely just a typo? Usually people trying to dehumanize women will use "females", which is a lot more of a red flag.
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I remember odd things people say under stress...
A girl’s arm was ripped to shreds in a dog mauling, she kept using the word “meat”. “There’s shredded meat everywhere!” And she continued to say it as she found pieces of her arm on the ground. “Is that a piece of my meat?!” and “Huhuhu, omg it’s my meat!!”
Some others...
“I brought you the asparagus. The asparagus!!” -guy who came back from the market to find his partner dead.
“C’mon buddy! Don’t do this. It’s Valentine’s Day!” -homeless passerby who started CPR on a distraught woman’s husband who collapsed at a gas pump.
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Having to evacuate during a house fire, my head got stuck on the fact that I didn't have any socks on. Heads are weird sometimes.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 7 months ago
This is the same stock photo as BP used for the "My husband called my daughter fat" story.
#15
My dads a firefighter and for most of my younger childhood he didn’t expose much of what he’s seen/gone through in his career. As I’ve gotten older, he’s shared a bit more and one day shared a perspective with me that opened my eyes to the full scope of what he does for the community. My brother and I were discussing my brothers military deployment and how some guys from his unit were struggling with PTSD and my dad said that something that isn’t talked about often is how many people walking the street who do what he does often have the same thing happening to them but for an entire career/lifetime. I asked him what he meant and he shared with me that it only took him about 3 years on the job before he couldn’t truly celebrate any holiday anymore. Obviously this was met with some confusion on my end but he said that every holiday/event in the yearly calendar is marred in his memory by some earth shattering event he was called to for work. 4th of July for him is a child having drowned in a pool while parents were occupied with entertaining guests. Thanksgiving is car wreck in which the drunk driver walked away while their sober brother was in the passenger seat having their skull crushed by the frame of the vehicle he was driving. He has an entire calendar year of these and that was the part that really stunned me. Gave me a whole new respect for the guy.
Earonn - 7 months ago
In general - people are quick to celebrate anyone who wears a uniform, without asking what they did (and if they deserve praise at all - soldiers can be criminals, too, you know.). But when did anyone working in first response, be it medical, fire, etc. get praise, let alone a discount at a shop? Still, they have to somehow calm down the 10 year old r**e victim - or get her bloody body into the ambulance. They deal with murder, s*****e, accidents. Here's to all of them!
Vermonta 7 months ago
I agree but military can't quit their job when it gets to them. That's why the military s*****e rate is so high.
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Nadine Debard 7 months ago
Once met a firefighter who explained me that using a spoon to gather all the pieces of a human body who jumped in front of a train was the most horrible thing he had to do on a regular basis, and the most horrible thing he witnessed was the motorcyclist who took off his helmet when he saw him arriving. The image of his head splitting in two parts still haunts him, because he didn't have the time to stop the guy from removing his helmet.
Jorie 7 months ago
My friend's brother was a firefighter for many years. His eyes had seen things that his memory couldn't erase. He talked about the odor of burning flesh and how it forever lingers in his nose. He talked about carrying dead children out of fires and the weight of their bodies never eases up. Talk about PTSD. God bless him and each and every man and woman who wears the uniform.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
My father's accident happened on Thanksgiving Day the year I was 18. We'd already eaten our meal and then he went up on a ladder onto the garage roof to help put up Christmas lights. He fell off of the ladder and sustained catastrophic brain damage. He survived, but was completely disabled/bedridden - absolutely massive brain injury. He lived another 21 years (he died in 2021) but my family hasn't celebrated Thanksgiving since that year.
#16
911 dispatcher here. There's many that stick with me, but the absolute hardest one was a mother finding her child after the child had committed s*****e by hanging.
She was absolutely destroyed, but I could clearly hear her fighting to keep control as I walked her through getting the child down and attempting CPR. I knew that child was gone, but the mother refused to give up. I stayed with her on the phone and counted compressions with her while we waited for pd and the ambo to arrive, listened to her alternate between counting and begging her child to come back. When the EMTs showed up and took over, she finally let it go... That scream broke me, and I can still hear it to this day.
Sathe Wesker 7 months ago
Unfortunately, they have to talk the parent into “cutting them down” so to speak. My ex (and very good friend still) does this and I’ve deeply, deeply considered this as well. They have to warn you of the “thump” you will hear when the body hits the floor. Thus, the realization sets in.
#17
This isn't mine, but my dad went on a call in 1988 where a man had attempted s*****e by cutting his wrists. He and his partner each grabbed a wrist and stopped the bleeding, saved the guys life.
But it wasn't until a week later when they found out why he was trying to die. His wife had left him because of various reasons I'm sure, but these reasons included the fact that he had full blown AIDS. So my dad and his friend had to get tested since they had been covered in this dude's blood. This was before all the protocols surrounding blood and pathogens had been implemented.
My dad was negative, but his friend wasn't so lucky. The blood had gotten in his eye. I was 2 years old at the time. He quit doing calls soon after. His friend died 7 years ago of AIDS related things.
Beak Hookage 7 months ago
If dying of AIDs is as horrible as it sounds, I probably would have opted for arranging a faster and less painful exit too. :(
Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
The man with AIDS should have told the guys helping him that he had AIDS. That way, they could have gloved up and could have prevented the tragedy of your Dad's partner's death. I am so sorry for your Dad. He has had to live with this tragedy for far too long!
Susan Raskin 7 months ago
Tragic. I've heard stories of ER nurses getting infected while trying to stop a patients bleeding. This was in the early 1980s before we knew much about AIDs/HIV
#18
Was an EMT before I became a nurse. Call came in for an MVC (motor vehicle collision) with two trapped. On arrival, cops said 2 young woman, early 20s, drinking and going too fast and flipped their car. Driver ejected. Then, we hear passenger screaming....”she’s pregnant! Be careful, she’s pregnant!” Jaws hit the floor as the smell of alcohol on both them and their car was overwhelming. We wanted to airlift the driver, but medic on scene said no. She had fractured literally, almost every bone in her body. Open, compound fracture of tibia/fibula (two bones lower leg and fractured femurs. Normal protocol didn’t work because we can’t pull traction on femur for the open fracture and can’t MAST pants because she has massive pelvic trauma/fractures with obvious internal bleeding signs and symptoms. Picking up her leg was like picking up jello. Had no substance to it. Was shattered beyond belief. We transported both of them together and not sure how we kept driver alive. She obviously lost the baby. Miscarriage started in back of ambulance. Rushed her in for emergency surgery. If I remember, she broke both legs, pelvis, arms, clavicles, ribs, facial breaks, skull fractures, brain bleeds, spleen ruptured, bowel damaged, lost uterus and ovaries and I don’t even remember what else. First bad accident scene as an EMT. Will never forget that feeling of holding a leg with no bone left to hold it together.
Bart 7 months ago
A shattered leg is a lot heavier than you would expect if you have to carry it. Volunteer firefighter in Switzerland here...
Crystalwitch60 7 months ago
DONT DRINK AND DRIVE !! this post should be a lesson to EVERYONE!!!
DaisyBee 7 months ago (edited)
So she killed her own baby, almost herself and her friend, and potentially someone else had they crashed elsewhere, because she was stupid - zero sympathy, she caused it to herself
Nadine Debard 7 months ago
I have to agree. Drinking and driving is terrible, and drinking and being pregnant as well.
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Upstaged75 7 months ago
And that's why we don't drink and drive. The poor baby might have had fetal alcohol syndrome anyway....
Marlene Ricker 7 months ago
Please God, I will never find out how heavy a boneless leg weighs!
#19
Buddy of mine is a 911 operator.
He had a call where a young kid (like 6 or 7) called in. He was in the woods and didn't know where he was.
Also he had been shot by his father. His mother and father were both dead next to him in a murder s*****e.
Another call was a guy calling in to say he had just shot his girlfriend. My buddy asked if she was still alive. The guy said to wait just a second. There was a gunshot and then he said "Not any more."
I couldn't do that job.
Earonn - 7 months ago
FFS, guys, if you want to commit s*****e, fine. It's your life. But leave us and our kids out of your s**t.
Johannes Wagner 7 months ago
You are right that nobody should include others if they end their life. However it is not fine to end your life as the idea of doing so is often a result of a psychiatric problem.
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A number of bus/truck/train drivers have been traumatized when someone threw themselves under a moving vehicle to commit sui-cide. I can't believe I had to do that do avoid s*****e being censored. These things happen. There needs to be open and frank awareness, not guess the apostrophe.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
This! I've been clinically cyclically depressed for most of my life (it first started when I was 12-13ish) and have been su!cidal/had su!cidal ideation for the same amount of time. I've attempted it twice (aborted the attempts at the last minute both times because I remembered/got it through my skull that my pets need me.) My absolute inviolable "rule" each time was that I would NOT commit su!cide in a manner that would traumatize others - so no bridge/building-jumping, no jumping in front of a train, bus, car, etc., no unaliving myself in a hotel room where the cleaning staff would find me, etc. I may be depressed and I may not want to be alive, but damned if I'm going to hurt/traumatize other people when/if I end myself.
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That second one, as another commenter pointed out, isn't real. It's an ooooooold joke about two hunters.
Susan Raskin 7 months ago
The stuff of nightmares. People are so f****d up and walking this world
#20
My friend is a first responder. He once got a call about a man that had fallen in the shower. He gets there and the guy is over 400 pounds and out cold on the bathroom floor. My friend, his partner and the guys roommate try everything they can think of to get the guy on the stretcher, but the bathroom is tiny and they can’t even roll him over. Eventually they call two more ambulances and finally get the guy out of the bathroom.
They get to the elevator and it’s too small to fit the guy on the stretcher. So six paramedics have to carry the guy down five flights of stairs.
My friend called in sick for the rest of the week cause he was so sore and stiff, he couldn’t move.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 7 months ago
Which part? Being 400lbs and passing out in a shower, or having to carry a 400lbs person who passed out in the shower?
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Vermonta 7 months ago
when my husband was 16th he helped his uncle bring a body down a staircase on the stretcher and it fell off and went down the stairs on its own.
Al Padilla 7 months ago
When I was "guarding the nation's glands" (US Navy Medical Corps) there was a patient we followed in the endocrine clinic for longstanding diabetes. She was the wife of a retired sailor. In Virginia, the education level for most folks is impressively low. The patient was thrilled that due to her progressive diabetic neuropathy, her feet no longer hurt. One August afternoon, she walked across the hot tarmac to the beach, and an hour or so later, she noted that the soles of her feet were coming off onto the beach blanket. She was over 300 lbs and passersby couldn't maneuver her by carrying the beach blanket. The ambulance EMT's couldn't get the gurney (stretcher) to roll in the sand. They enlisted a bunch of onookers who helped carry the stretcher to the parking lot. When she arrived at the hospital, she refused surgery or antibiotics, and instead taped a Jesus picture to each leg. She died of sepsis.
SadFatTortilla 3 months ago
I have a huge fear of this. I became disabled and lost a ton of mobility and now I literally sit AROUND the house. Im trying so hard to lose weight but without real exercise its near impossible.
#21
I'm not a first responder, but my sisters is a LEO.
Her worst story, was there were 2 junkies in town, non-violent criminals, who had multiple children together all which had been taken away by Children's Aid Services.
So there was a report that she had given birth, so CAS wanted police escort to go get the baby. They knocked on the door, the dad opened it, and just said, oh, you're here for the baby, walked across the room, picked up a swaddled baby and handed the child to my sister. She looked at the baby, (this was something like her 3rd or 4th actual shift) started shaking and crying, the seargent sees this, says give it and get back to the car. The baby had been dead for a couple days already.
My sister is ok with things now, but that one messed her up for a bit.
Earonn - 7 months ago
Please, please, please, let's get safe housing for d**g addicts. I know a lot of people want to see them "punished" for their "bad decisions", but is this worth it? Oh, it costs money? Let's strip Musk down to 1 billion, that's still more than he could ever use up and you could buy every family, homeless person and j****e a mansion.
Severus S 7 months ago
Having worked with homeless people this rarely works except for the few that have been made homeless due to evictions, family breakups, money issues, d**g addicts for the most part won't stay in a housing they will wreck it, they will turn them into d**g dens, last couple I re-homed 3 days later they had stripped the copper out the walls to pay for d***s and left excrement on the walls and were sitting in the streets in town begging for money claiming they were homeless again.
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Papa 7 months ago
I'm going to assume you were making a joke, and if yes I approve, but just in case you weren't it's the abbreviation for law enforcement officer.
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Al Padilla 2 months ago
From 1975-1978, the U.S. government, in an effort to discourage d**g use, sprayed marijuana fields in Mexico with paraquat, such that anyone who smoked the "treated" product would get rapidly-fatal lung failure. It's pretty clear that there's no such thing as d**g rehab. There's essentially a 100% recidivism rate, so the only alternatives are expensive life imprisonment, or the fatal option. Removing the druggies from society would markedly reduce both violent and non-violent crime. We should think about it regarding opioids.
Ravioli 1 month ago (edited)
Bro.. marijuana is less potent than alcohol, and they did that to the fields because marijuana users were undesirables like black people and hippies. You are messed in the head man. And things would be much better if governments stopped fighting a losing battle and actually started regulating d***s.
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Volunteer Firefighter in Europe. Some summers ago we were called as first responders to a motorcycle accident. When we arrived the cyclist was obviously badly hurt after crashing in a car. But he was orientated and seemed okay, ambulance and helicopter were on their way already, so we just had to stabilize him. Not a minute later he started deteriorating, another minute later we started CPR.
One of the arriving bystanders was a trauma surgeon and started helping immediately, shortly after the doctor on the helicopter arrived. It was obvious that there was massive internal bleeding, they first tried to relieve pressure by puncturing and then pretty soon decided that the only chance was to open him up. So they managed a clamshell thoractomy in the middle of the street, and one started to give the heart direct compressions. The bleeding was massive and they discovered that there was a aortic rupture.
The blood loss was too extreme and he died there. Still to this day I have to drive slowly when I pass by that stretch of road.
Hobby Hopper 7 months ago
I witnessed a s*****e by motor vehicle (drove their sedan at high speed head on into a dump truck). I was driving the next car back behind the dump truck. To this day, I think about that every time I pass that spot. Thankfully at least the occupants of the truck survived.
GPawesomeness 7 months ago
The thing I hate about this story and many like them is how selfish it is how someone s******l (horrible enough, bless them) is how horribly they impact other people.
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Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
He was oriented. If he was orientated then he was specifically facing East. A pet peeve of mine.
#23
Car wreck, late night heavily forested mountain road. Drunk woman flying down the highway, lost control and flipped the car multiple times. We arrive and shes unconscious, boarded and shipped. After about 45 minutes, we're gearing up to leave is when we find the empty baby car seat.
Took another 45 minutes to find the body.
DaisyBee 7 months ago
So many children on this list that deserved so much better than the parents they were inflicted with
Bigfoot87 7 months ago
But let's take away abortion rights and force people to have children they didn't necessarily choose to have.
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pipboo 7 months ago
I constantly drive around with an empty baby seat. I need a sticker letting anyone from the emergency services know it was empty, then remove it when I drive the grandkids around.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
You could get a custom Velcro/loop-and-hook patch made that says something like "The baby was not in the car with me" (or something better-worded than that) and just stick the Velcro patch to the fabric of the baby seat! It won't stick as well as it would to the normal fuzzy "other side" of a Velcro thing, but it should still stick well to normal fabric.
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Not a first responder but I work in the ED. One of our physician’s friends is a first responder and got a call for s*****e. It was his own house. His daughter hanged herself.
BookFanatic 7 months ago
Yes, that's much better than naming it to raise awareness and erase the stigma. /s
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Mrs Wuschwusch 7 months ago
I'm having trouble upvoting all these stories. They are way to heartbreaking.
#25
Instead of bringing up a f****d up call I'll bring up a funny one. We went for a call to meet the police for an a*****t, we get there the guy had been attacked with a frozen turkey. Whacked over the head with it. Big lump already formed. Guy had gotten into an argument with his old lady and she bopped him upside the head with the bird. He ended up fighting the cops and his wife and mother tried to jump in so I'm holding them back as the cops are wrestling with him. Cops ended up transporting him so we cleared and went back in service. Turns out the same guy had gotten whacked in the head by a 2x4 the week prior too.
Al Padilla 7 months ago
Yes! There was an episode in the 1950's on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in which a wife bludgeons her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb. Then she calls the police, who investigate, while she cooks the lamb and invites them to dinner.
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Dragon mama 7 months ago
That 2x4 might explain the bad behavior the man displayed, resulting in the turkey attack.
Definitely a Human 7 months ago
So you can't say "a*****t", but you can give the specific details of that a*****t? What's the point?
Liz Mary 7 months ago
I had a guest in the hotel who got attacked with an iron by his mistress. They were drunk and she suddenly decided that the guy was a s*****g because instead of being with his wife, he was with him after returning from overseas. He had a triangle of the iron's tip in his forehead, was bleeding like crazy but refused an ambulance. I patched him up and let him go back to his room after he signed a release for so the hotel wasn't liable I'm not a medical professional but was the manager and 1st aider on the night shift.
Sven Grammersdorf 7 months ago
How is this funny? Would it be funny if the genders were reversed?
#26
Not to me directly but happened in our Firehouse years before (horror story from the 70's.)
It's shared with everyone to stress the importance of hazardous chemical exposure.
There was a chemical leak (I don't know what chemical exactly) and a subsequent fire.
The team responded and one of the firefighter's turnouts ended up getting pretty heavily soaked in the chemical bath. Upon returning to the firehouse, his young daughter was there waiting; she gave him a hug and got the chemical all over herself. The substance was extremely toxic and she got ill and eventually passed a couple days later. The firefighter went through extreme depression afterwards and ended up committing s*****e.
Never forget that safety protocols and regulations are written in blood.
Earonn - 7 months ago
People like to joke about all the regulations and "red tape" in Germany. I like to reply that sure, it makes building etc. harder, but in return we have less peopled dying from s****y houses collapsing, less fires and resulting deaths (Grenfell, anyone from the UK?) etc. Fight for your red tape. It cost money they tell you? No, what they tell you is what a human life (not their own, of course) is worth to them.
SkyBlueandBlack 7 months ago
Same in California. Everyone complains about restrictive building codes, then they complain about having to clear brush from their property, and then they complain that their house burned down.
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Evan Connolly 3 months ago
What was he, an idiot? You don't touch anyone after you have been contaminated.
#27
Listened to a young p******ute get strangled to death by a crazy religious guy. She kept struggling for her cell phone, and I could hear the guy yelling crazy stuff about religion and her being a w***e. Because of the constant gasps and the phone being thrown around, it was initially hard to make out what was going on. It was a pay as you go phone so it was hard to find out where she was located exactly.
Eventually her noises stopped and the guy who did it was left huffing and puffing. Keeping an open line as I’m supposed to do, afterwards I heard a twinkling noise; turns out it was him urinating on her corpse.
The craziest part of this is that it didn’t even make the news. She was young, about 19 ish, indigenous girl if I recall correctly, this was 2009.
I don’t do call taking anymore but whenever people ask what the worst one was that was probably it.
The other one that haunted me was a guy called 911 and said he had a loaded gun and was going to k**l people in his apartment, and he told me over the phone I had five minutes to convince him not to do it (no one was hurt, thankfully, but he did have a gun, and had severe mental problems). I wasn’t very long on the job and there aren’t always crazy calls like that so needless to say this was a stressful experience.
Earonn - 7 months ago
Crazy people will do crazy things, but without his religion directing him towards women being whores for using their bodies as they see fit, he might just have felled a tree and pissed on himself.
DaisyBee 7 months ago
Murder doesn’t seem to align with the whole religious thing - or so you’d think…
Sharon Ingram 7 months ago
If you haven’t heard about MMIW Missing or M******d Indigenous Women look into it. This has been happening for decades. It’s a huge “fell through the cracks” on purpose. I don’t know if it’s because of tensions between Law Enforcement agencies or cultures, but it’s real. Canada recently came into the news because if it, but it us a plague all over the Americas.
Al Padilla 7 months ago
Well as of a couple of days ago, the world's largest multinational corporation has a new CEO. In the news, several dioceses in the U.S. have declared bankruptcy. Not clear to me if it was financial or moral.
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#28
Little 4 year old girl got ran over by her grandmother with a lawnmower that was on. It was not the gore or the blood that got me, it was the utter panic of the family, and the way they broke down when the helicopter took off with her inside.
Ellie Vanille 7 months ago
According to OP "Yes she did survive and made a full recovery minus losing a leg."
Al Padilla 7 months ago
Actually, mathematical "grammar" would have you say "plus losing a leg" - otherwise she would have been the recipient of a leg transplant. Minus a loss = an addition.
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Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
No matter my insistence and story-telling, I absolutely CANNOT get my dad to quit taking my nieces and nephews on the mower with him. Scares the s**t out of me every time he posts a picture of it on our family group text. My siblings won't listen either.
#29
I'm not a first responder anymore but one of my first arson cases was an absolutely hilarious disaster. This husband and wife hated each other but didn't want to get divorced. What they did want was a new house.
So they poured kerosene on approximately 60 rags and stuffed them under the end table next to the couch. Then placed an *empty* kerosene lamp on the end table.
Then they took a 5 gallon gas can full of gas, took the spout off, and placed it in their master bedroom closet. Their completely devoid of all clothing master bedroom closet except for two jackets with tassels with the price tags still on them. Then they opened all their safes and left them empty and open in the middle of the bedroom.
Then they took all the pictures out of the house and replaced them with random photos they printed off the internet.
Then they removed the televisions and replaced them with old tvs. They put the flat screen televisions in their barn.
Then they poured a clear trail of gasoline down the hallway.
Their alibi was that on the day of the fire, they were trying to sell their canoe. They finally got a buyer, but the only time they could meet the buyer was at 3 am that night. So they drove 2 hours away to sell a canoe at 3 am the very same night. They then tried to claim the unlit, non electric kerosene lamp must have exploded. Then they claimed that their c*******d neighbors were trying to frame them for arson. Then the husband claimed that his wife was trying to frame him for arson because she's quote "A Blackfoot Indian and they are notorious for not wanting to work". Then he claimed that Sears was trying to frame him for arson because they were tired of paying his settlement after being injured at work 25 years prior.
It was a good time.
Tele Avision 7 months ago
"Then they claimed that their c*******d neighbors were trying to frame them for arson." I would like to buy a vowel, Pat or Ryan or whoever is the host.
#30
One of my first calls ever, actually.
Calls drops on the radio, "so and so 40ish y/o female low blood sugar/diabetic complications..."
The EMT training me (E) and his paramedic partner (P) are familiar with the address and said it would be a good call for me to drive code 1 (lights and sirens) to, as each was very confident this woman wasn't dying. (It was my first code 1 experience)
We arrived to the scene and *just* before entering the residence, I'm talking on its very porch, E pulls me aside and says something to the effect of, "Now, when we go in there, the patient (PT) is going to be completely naked laying at the bottom of her stairs, she has bilateral, below the knee amputations (she ain't got legs), and when we give her some sugar, she's going to wake up and do naked, nubby gymnastics all over the place. Oh, and its going to be hot as hell inside because she gets cold when her sugar is low."
When E and I went inside, we were hit with 100° F room temperature on an already hot day.
P had already pulled up a chair in the living room and began adding demographic information and history to our patient care report, business as usual.
The patient, as promised, was laying at the bottom of her stairs, completely naked, completely disoriented (effectively the mind of a toddler), and legolas as can be.
As my first diabetic emergency, I was taking a back seat and observing E treat the PT.
E carefully approached PT and struggled with her a bit to get a BGL reading. Her sugar was alarmingly low for a healthy person, but not far from her average and certainly not her record low, as noted by E.
After obtained the BGL reading, E had the green light to attempt to administer a dose of oral glucose, a really sticky, really disgusting toothpaste-like substance. PT wasn't having it, she started spitting and pulling away and ultimately was left unchanged.
Now it was P's turn. A nice shot of glucagon and within minutes, PT was speaking in tongues and spinning naked cartwheels on her stumps, amazing. P had just sat back down when PT had gone face down, a*s up about 3ish feet in front of P. PT paused, and then started back up into a tantrum akin to an exorcism.
After several minutes of the most awkwardly surreal experience of my life, PT had transitioned into a sort of recovery phase that entailed sitting on the heating vent and shouting "I'm so cold!" at the top of her lungs over and over. No, we didn't adjust the thermostat.
Eventually PT became coherent and adamantly refused transport to the hospital for further treatment. Then, she ate the breakfast her daughter made and we left.
I've seen PT a few times since, but she's in prison now so its been awhile.
I've never seen her with clothes on, even during discharges from the hospital.
Edit: spelling, formatting, etc.
Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
Legolas? This happened in the Shire? Frankly her behavior kinda fits . . . .
#31
My first cardiac arrest call.
An old lady had woken up to her husband not breathing. He'd passed at some point during the night it seems, but all I was given at the start of the call was that he wasn't breathing, so I launched into CPR instructions.
They lived out of town, so it took the ambulance crew about 25 minutes to get out to them.
There was nothing crazy about the call and I've dealt with way more traumatic calls in the 2 years since, but at some point during the call, she realised he was gone and you could hear it in her voice.
That shift in tone is what sticks with me.
Evan Connolly 3 months ago
That's why it isn't a good idea to live out in rural areas if you are old.
Al Padilla 2 months ago
Or maybe, for some, it's a good idea. Generalissimo Franco, the dictator of Spain was resuscitated more than 70 times during his last hospitalization. I can just imagine the code chief, applying the paddles, and saying, "THAT'S for Guernica!"
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#32
Obligatory “I’m not a first responder, but...”, I always wonder about the 911 operator that was on the phone with me when I found my (21F at the time) brother (24M) after he hung himself. It’s a bit blurry but I remember I was “calm” (in shock) and I think he started to ask if I needed fire, police, or ambulance and as soon as he spoke I said “my brother killed himself”. I think he asked if I could get him down and try CPR, but as soon as I said “his feet are blue” he knew he had passed and instructed me to go wait outside on my steps and to stay on the phone til the police got there. I kept saying things like “this is so f****d up, I’m sorry for swearing” and he said it’s okay. Later I found out that I found my brother about 14 hours after it happened. My poor parents were out of town on vacation too... I called them first before I even called 911. :( I always hope it didn’t make the operator sad.
Earonn - 7 months ago
A lot of people seem to apologise to or feel bad for the operators. Which is kind of a nice thought. They are in the middle of a crisis, switching to their most basic behaviour - and that includes to think of others. Poor OP, hope he got help and care to get over this.
Bi.Felicia 7 months ago
I too, really hope she got the much needed help/therapy.
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this genuinely shattered me, i hope OP find the she needed
A girl 7 months ago
My brother, 60 yo, called me the afternoon before we plannedgto bring him to Chemical Dependacy treatment. He asked if I'd have dinner with him but I was stuck at work. I assured him I absolutely would be there for him at 7:30 the next morning. When I arrived the next morning, I found the house unlocked, lights on, no signs of him. I opened the basement door and saw him laying weirdly askew at the bottom of the stairs. I dialed 911 as I was racing down the stairs. The operator helped me so much keep my self together. He was taken to the hospital by the emts and lived, for another month. Devastating brain injury. I found a receipt some time later that confirmed my suspicion that he drank a ton that night and took a cab home. He probably laid on the floor 11 hours based on the cab time stamp wnd the fact his boots and coat were still on. Everyone in emergency response has my respect and appreciation. The hardest month of my life. They all helped me through it.
Bi.Felicia 7 months ago
I'm really sorry for your loss. If you don't mind me asking but it sounds like your brother may have fallen down the basement stairs after a night of drinking?
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#33
I work in a region that covers a lot of forest area. I was patrolling and heading to recertify with my firearms when I passed vehicle tracks leading into the trees where vehicles aren't supposed to be. It wasn't unusual for that spot but I'd never been able to catch anyone up there. Because I was on a timetable, I figured I'd check in it on the way back to the office
After an hour or so, we got a bolo for a potentially s******l male. He was found dead a couple of hours later, in that exact area I was going to check. And now I can't help but wonder if he was alive when I drove by and I could have done something.
Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago
That's gotta be really hard to live with. It wasn't OP's fault, but I can understand why it would feel like it is :< I would probably react the same way
#34
My mum qualified as an ambulance call handler. Once they qualify they go through a period where an experienced call handler sits with them and listens to the calls with them in case they have any trouble. She passed this with flying colours. It all went downhill after that though, here first ever 'solo call' was from a mother whose newish baby (few weeks I think but not really relevant I guess) had fallen out of the car door on an A road and went under the wheels of a lorry following behind her. Safe to say it f****d her up a bit but she carried on the job for years afterwards and now she's a student paramedic. So proud of her it's unbelievable!
Nadine Debard 7 months ago
No baby seat, baby in an adult's arms, sh1tty car with door unable to lock... That's a lot of coincidences.
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#35
A lighthearted one - my friend got a call from a very cross sounding old lady that was absolutely furious because her neighbors had stolen her plants. When my friend asked her how she knew it was them, the woman said “because there’s holes in my yard and She planted them in her f*****g garden! I’m going to go take them back, I have a shovel, and you probably wont get here in time to do anything about it!”
Thank goodness it was a slow day because my friend had to stay on the line for at least 15 minutes to convince her to wait for a cop to come by and talk to her neighbors for her.
Gracie Mae 7 months ago
silly me, when i had that happen to me, I went next door and gave the old lady a time limit of when she needed to have my plants back where I had them! yeah, she had them planted near her front door...couldn't argue with me, but did try to tell me she thought they were on her property, like, really? Those plants just mysteriously appeared where I put them the day before, on MY property??? she was a real winner
#36
Memorial Day, 1989. FF/EMT at the time. Call dispatched as a "car into a telephone pole." When we got there, I couldn't believe the carnage. A HS student had been given a muscle car as a birthday present. The police later estimated he was going over 90mph when he hit the pole head-on.
Patient's right femur was about six inches long, his patella almost touching his pelvis. The entire long bone had compressed like an accordion. He had other multiple injures. Took us two hours to cut him out of the car. The medics were pumping him so full of d***s to maintain his blood pressure they started to openly worry that they might f**k his kidneys up.
We finally got him out of the car (only time I've ever seen a KED used) on a gurney and took off for the hospital. Medic had two large-bore IVs going, and had a BP cuff wrapped around one of the bags to create his own "rapid infuser."
The kid lived. He ended up losing the foot on the leg that was destroyed, and that leg (from what I heard months later) was more metal than flesh.
The irony was that the kid was a NY State indoor track and field state champion runner.
XenoMurph 7 months ago
My daughter is 17, she's getting a slow, safe, sensible car. WHY would you buy your kid the most dangerous type of the object that is responsible for the most deaths of people his age.
NetworkMan 7 months ago
Most cars are slow, safe and sensible. The drivers, however...
Load More Replies... Bi.Felicia 7 months ago
I wasn't sure what KED stood for so thought I would share for others that may not be familiar. In a medical context, "KED" typically refers to the Kendrick Extrication Device, a device used to immobilize the head, neck, and torso in a seated position, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It's commonly used in emergency medical services, especially in situations involving car accidents or other trauma where spinal injury is a concern.
Al Padilla 7 months ago
"Keds" was a brand of sneakers popular a number of years ago. This former track star would only have to buy 1 Ked at a time.
Load More Replies... Sylvia Baker 7 months ago
The number of young men with sports cars zooming up and down our residential street is ridiculous. There are things you can have put on the vehicles that keep them to a moderate speed. The city trucks have them.
#37
A mother called because her kid pulled a pot of oil off the stove and it spilled on his face. she said she could see the skin peeling off his face.
2x4b523p 7 months ago
My cousin is a nurse in the burns department ICU. She said absolute majority of pediatric patients are small kiddos pulling cups or pots from countertops and spilling it on themselves, followed by adults tripping and spilling hot cup or pot over the kiddos.
Lady Eowyn 7 months ago
I don't have kids but wouldn't it just make sense to put stuff far enough back from the edge of the counter that a kid can't get it? Or keep them out of the kitchen?
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Pencil 7 months ago
Here's something anyone can do: If you ever see someone cooking in media (cooking show, segment on a talk show, influencer on social media, whatever) and the handles of their pans are facing outward over the edge of the stove, contact them and point it out. Handles should always be pointed to the back or side where kids can't reach them. Of course not everyone has kids but media shouldn't portray a dangerous habit for those who do when it's so easy to demonstrate doing it safely. If we all take a minute to send an email or post a comment, it'll become the standard soon enough.
#38
Man blew his face off with a shotgun. Wasn’t dead yet. Scary s**t.
Also, a couple weeks ago I responded to a woman in labor. Get on scene, she had just delivered. She was naked and holding the baby with the cord still coming out of her v****a. She was high as hell and trying to shoot up one last time before she went with us. *With her bloodstream still feeding the baby through the cord.*
Edit: Thank you so much for the Wholesome Award hahaha.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 7 months ago
I'm adopted, and my bio mom was an addíct/junkíe/alcoholíc. I am incredibly lucky that I have all my bits in all the right places and also lucky that I don't have fetal alcohol syndrome. However, I DID go through "withdrawal" for whatever substances my bio mom was using. Apparently I near-constantly screamed in absolute agony for a few weeks after birth and no one knew what to do for me. These days, they probably have some protocols in place for children who are born addícted, but I was born in 1982. Fortunately I don't remember it (as I was a literal newborn at the time) but it affected and traumatized my adoptive parents pretty badly, as they didn't want me to be in such agony but had no idea what to do for me.
Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago
Now they keep babies that are born addicted in the NICU so medical professionals can help the poor little things with their symptoms. I know this because unfortunately, I know an a****t that keeps having babies. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Glad you were at least too young to remember the experience though...
Load More Replies... #39
When I delivered a woman's 14th kid in the back of the ambulance. The entire birth she was on the phone with her "friend" having her get the paperwork ready to surrender custody.
DaisyBee 7 months ago (edited)
BC isn’t expensive. Pack of condoms alone is only a few US dollars
Kellyann Conway 6 months ago
And so should the 14 men who irresponsibly impregnated a mentally ill woman.
Load More Replies... Al Padilla 2 months ago
The genetic law of "regression to the mean" suggests that her kids will be smarter than she is. The bad news is that they shift the mean.
#40
I'm not a first responder, but a dentistry student. Dentistry professionals can work in the hospital as trauma surgeons of the face. This facial surgeon showed us a case of a man that didn't pay his d**g dealers, they took hit to an empty field and blew his face off with a shotgun and left. Surprisingly the man survived and woke up half an hour later and called the police, they spent hours trying to pinpoint his exact locating because at this point he was somewhere in the middle of an open field and obviously he didn't had eyes anymore to help them. He was taken to the hospital and his surgery took 18 hours but he did survive.
Edit: today he lives in a rest home with a tube helping him breathe and another helping him eat.
Deta Rossiter 7 months ago
he is d**g free too i assume? I am trying hard to find the da*n silver lining in these stories ok....
Al Padilla 2 months ago
But at least he won't be breaking & entering, or mugging people to support his habit.
Panda'sMom 7 months ago
There is "surviving" then there is living. Oft times they don't meet up.
#41
Not a 911 responder, but I will never forget about hearing this one in my area. Student housing in the city's center wasnt up to code, someone left something burning in the clothingstore below and a huge fire broke out. One student was still inside and couldnt get out because there was no fire escape. Trapped. He called 911. She stayed with him till the end.
#42
Had a guy who was intoxicated and s******l and laying on train tracks with a train due by in minutes. We were able to talk him into getting off the tracks and had officers in route, but when he tried to get up, he couldn't because his boot was wedged in between the spokes of the tracks and he could not free it. We tried to get him to undo the laces and slide his foot out, but he couldn't manage that either. Plan C was to stop every train in the entire area until officers were able to get to him. That worked.
#43
I used to be a volunteer fire fighter and the one that sticks out in my mind was getting a call about an accident involving a semi and motorcycle. The guy driving the motorcycle had a stroke and went under the belly of the trailer, which lead to his decapitation.
Seeing a head detached from the body is quite unnerving.
Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
ER nurse - we had a motorcycle accident victim come in, breathing but unconscious. When we moved him off the backboard, there was a HUGE pool of CSF (the fluid around your brain and spinal cord) puddled on the board. We log-rolled him and his literal spinal cord was hanging out of his body. Trauma surgeon took one look and was like, nope. We coded him for a few minutes but there was NO WAY his brain would have survived that level of CSF leak. I will NEVER ride on a motorcycle EVER AGAIN in my life after seeing that.
Bored Trash Panda 7 months ago
I have told my son stories I have heard about motorcycle accident victims to get him to not want a motorcycle. Traumatizing I know, but it worked.
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I wasn't going to post, but the stories now make me want to.
I work in maritime search and rescue.
I was fairly new at my job and the area is quite large that we are in charge of. I had just showed up maybe a month prior still learning the area. We get a call that two smaller private planes had collided midair. It was a horrible day. In total there were 19 people, we only found 12 people. Eight were deceased, and out of the rest who survived, 2 later to pass due to complications on the way to the hospitals. Anyone that survived was a miracle to say the least. This was almost a year ago and we still get reports that parts of the plane are washing ashore.
EDIT: woah thanks for the award! and yes this was in alaska, but saying so its a big state.
#45
I’m a 911 operator. The hardest call I’ve ever gotten was a 7 year old boy who drowned at the local lake/beach we had in town. He was in the states custody and his sister had took him and his maybe 5 year old brother out for the day to spend time together. The boy was in the water and all of a sudden the sister couldn’t find him, a bystander called 911 while she ran into the water to find the boy. I ordered the caller to get all the children out of the water and to have all the adults get in, form a line and start searching for the boy, I stayed on the line until the fire department got there and they found the boy about 10 minutes later, so about 15-20 minutes after the initial call. They were able to get a pulse when in the ambulance and drove to the hospital, he was later pronounced dead that night and the hospital called us to let us know, which usually never happens. I was 19 years old and I had a 7 year old brother, I held it together but as soon as I got into my car after my shift I cried so hard, all I could imagine was that it could have been my brother, and I NEVER get emotional on my calls. I’m able to keep calm bc it’s not my emergency, but this one hit me right in the stomach.
I’m lucky to have had such a good partner to help me through it because I would’ve struggled doing that alone.
I will never ever forget that day, I remember everything that happened like it was yesterday, and it’s been 2 1/2 years.
Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
Hubby, kids, and I were at a little cove in San Diego, beach but like, NO waves or anything. Suddenly, three kids come running to the water - no adult in sight. They're maybe 10, 5, and 3ish. The youngest started wadding into the water - again, no adult around except me and hubby - and he just disappears under the water - it should have been very shallow. My husband jumps into action and is able to get him in under 30 seconds. The kid is sputtering and crying, and then the mom appears from up over a hill. The older daughter is yelling "Mom Geo almost drowned! Geo went under!" The mom just walks up to hubby and grabs her hysterical kid and they all leave. No thank, no acknowledgment, nothing. We investigated and it seems like someone had dug a really deep hole in the sand during low tide and then the kid fell in the hole. If my hubby hadn't been there and realized what had happened, the kid would 100% have died.
#46
*I'd prefer not to revisit my old calls, because the few memorable ones f****d me up. But here's one that another rig told us about at the time:*
Someone called in saying she she heard a loud scraping form the roof and thinks her husband fell off while fixing the satellite.
They arrived to find he hanged himself with the satellite cable and the wife was trying to get him down with a rake. Paramedic had to walk behind the rig and take a deep breath, which was weird. He was normally the embodiment of calm.
They get the poor soul down, wife angrily yelling at them to get the guy down before the neighbors see.
They load him in the ambulance and the wife just walked inside after they took down info from her. They got into the rig and drove for about a mile before the paramedic burst out laughing, asking if they just "skidoo'd" into a British dark comedy. The reason he dipped out for a second was to regain composure and not laugh.
#47
Not a first responder, but my instructor for my EMT class told us about the worst call he’s ever been on.
He said they got a call one night and sent 5 ambulances to the scene, he was in the third. They arrive on scene to a car accident where a drunk teenager hit a family’s car. The father and the son were ejected from the car and were already about to be transported, and the teenager had fled the scene
My instructor was tasked with getting the other family members out of the car, the pregnant wife and 3 kids. Sadly, they were all k**led on impact and nothing could be done for them. He had to retrieve their bodies and sit with them for something over an hour if my memory serves, with the knowledge that if the father and son lived(which they did) they would wake up to hear the terrible news of what happened to the rest of their family, and live with the fact that the kid who k**led them was almost uninjured.
The story sounds awful enough just hearing about it, I can’t even imagine what he must have gone through. I have so much respect for every first responder out there and want to thank you for what you do.
#48
Not me, not 911 but a buddy who was an Army Ranger. They needed evac but the environment was hostile the entire time. He threw one of his injured teammates over his shoulder & ran for the chopper (Marines came) he said there was a blast; he went down on his knees, managed to get back up & keep running. He went to drop his battle back first onto the floor of the bird - he only had him from the waist down. Basically his legs & boots. From the torso up, he was gone - that part of his body was hanging down my friends back. As messed up as it is - it saved my friends life. He was an accidental shield basically.
#49
Had an ALS call for a s******l patient who set himself on fire but decided he still wanted to live after 3 seconds so he jumped into a lake, which was coincidentally nearby so he obviously had doubts as to whether or not he actually wanted to die. We got him fully intubated, IVs and all the works.
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
Why would you kíll yourself by setting yourself on fire? That's practically the most painful way to die
#50
Obligatory “I’m not a 911 responder” intro, but... the one and only time I ever had to call 911 was interesting. It was around 1997 and I lived in a suburb of Atlanta. I was getting on I85 NB and looked over and saw a car on fire on the I85 SB ramp. I grabbed my cell phone and called 911.
Now I had purchased the phone in Fayetteville where I lived. The car fire was happening in Union City about 15 miles away. Call went like this:
Operator: “911. What is your emergency?”
Me: “Yeah I’m getting on 85N at Union City (gave her the exit number) and there is a car on fire on the south bound ramp.”
Operator: “Sir, you’ve called Fayetteville 911. You’ll need to call Union City 911.”
Me: “How the f**k do I dial a different 911?!? What, do I need to put in an area code first???”
Operator: (Big dramatic SIGH) Hold on...
(Proceeds to put me on hold for about 90 seconds, comes back on the line)
Operator: (Very rude tone) Sir... someone else has already called that in, Fire and Ambulance are already on their way.
Me: Geez, I’m so sorry to have bothered you with this potentially deadly emergency...
Operator: *CLICK*
She seemed nice...
Earonn - 7 months ago
Once called the non-emergency police number for a big, heavy looking box on a inter-city highway, in a curve (so, think: a place where cars can go 150 kilometres per hour). Police asked if I couldn't remove it. I told him that I'm not stupid enough to walk unto a highway where people couldn't see me. Got the same heavy sigh. Yeah, darling, I'm so sorry that I'm not willing to risk my life just so the police doesn't have to put up warning signs. How dare I!
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
They are supposed to expect multiple calls. I was told by a first aid instructor and 000 call taker that you should call in any car accident you pass, even if you think someone else will, just in case they all think that way. Also, they don't rely on your phone for directing you to the regional office. All calls go to main line and you have to say town or suburb first up.
#51
I worked as an EMT for a while. Went on a call to a trailer park in town for a man "having a heart attack." We get there and discover that it was an elderly man who was under the care of a younger couple. The younger couple was being paid to care for him except they weren't– they were starving him and using the money for other things. He was dying from lack of nutrition. He had long, white, unkept hair and a beard and he wasn't just skinny, he was a skeleton with skin stretched over it like a drum. He was naked except for an adult diaper. We began CPR, pushed d***s, defibrillated him, and loaded him into the ambulance to rush to the hospital. Many of his ribs broke from the CPR and he'd arch his back and kick once or twice from time to time. He rallied a couple times because he wasn't sick, but he was just too weak and he passed away.
The couple also had a child, who was standing in the back hallway wordlessly watching this all unfold. CPS got involved.
#52
Got a call for a three month old baby that was not responsive; arrived on scene and was the second person through the door right behind the Senior Fire Officer (SFO). SFO immediately began doing CPR and was therefore unable to take on role of Incident Commander. I quickly reached up and grabbed the radio off his side and assumed command and control. This happened several years ago and I can still clearly see the child's face; that was a hard day knowing that there was literally nothing we could do, but trying our darnedest to do whatever we could. We never did find out the cause of death but it was suspected that the infant passed away from SIDS while taking a nap.
Edited to explain SIDS:
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; infants suddenly stop breathing spontaneously while asleep.
Bored Trash Panda 7 months ago (edited)
I was terrified at the thought of SIDS when my son was a baby as I had a friend whose daughter died from that. I never got any sleep. My son is 12 now and I STILL check on him before I go to bed lol. I hate when he is not home and I can't check on him.
#53
Ran a run of the mill house fire in a McMansion. Fire was small enough we could perform an interior attack, but big enough that it was a little dicey and hot as f**k. Go up into the second floor master bedroom and where the walk-in closet should have been was a s*x dungeon filled to the brim with charred leather and scortched [adult toys].
For years after that fire a charred [adult toys] would magically appear in turnout boots, pockets, inside helmets, anywhere inconvenient you can think of.
SkyBlueandBlack 7 months ago
In other words, the other firefighters pranked him for years after.
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A Car accident where an elderly woman was sandwiched in the car and clinging on to life.
I held her hand as she passed.
Sometimes I still feel her hand squeeze.
#55
Listening to the screams of a 5 year old and his parents when their 4 wheeler's gas tank exploded showering the kid with flaming gasoline. It was about 4 minutes until firefighters and emts arrived on scene and I remember every second.
#56
Not a 911 responder, but I worked on the recording equipment.
Someone called in two dead bodies (there was a woman screaming and crying in the background).
The operator asked for the callers name. He calmly said "I'm the other one" and hung up.
Yeah - I don't think I will ever forget that voice.
Earonn - 7 months ago
Again a man who thinks just because he wants to die that everyone else should, too. To make it easier for himself, or because others are just his possessions. No, not all men are like that, but that we have a word for this happening says enough, doesn't it?
Anthony Elmore 7 months ago
Yeah. It's so common that it's almost as cliche as a mother murdering her children before committing s*****e. S******l/homicidal people are (usually) not rational. Their delusional mind will bend and twist the truth until they can convince themselves that what they are doing is morally justifiable or even an act of mercy. Not everything is man VS woman. Sometimes life just sucks.
Load More Replies... #57
Entering a missile silo 60 feet below ground level to rescue two stoners in the middle of the Colorado plains. The only thing that saved them were piles of dead cows at the bottom of the silo. One of the injured had rebar sticking through his leg we had to cut off the pipe in order to fly him to the hospital.🙏🇺🇸.
#58
Animal call about an injured owl. Get there and the woman has the dead owl her arms saying it flew into a transformer and it blew up. She wants me to take the owl to a vet, I am explaining to her that it’s dead and we cannot help it when it wakes up. She is still holding it and the owl and her scream at the same time. The owl then digs its talons into her collar bone and starts beating her face with its wings. I fight it off her and she is bleeding profusely. I call her an ambulance and then have to explain to my Sgt want happened.
TL:DR Woman gets viciously attacked by and owl cause she dumb.
Chocolate llama 7 months ago
You're still convinced she is the dumb one when she was absolutely right about getting the owl to a vet urgently?
What do you think ?
XenoMurph 7 months ago
I wish people with technical knowledge would stop using abbreviations and acronyms in their stories. "I'm a type 4 RGB Nurse riding in a VHSDVD rig, with an OCD extension. We arrived at a BHS with only two HRs. As you can imagine, it was FUBAR."
UKDeek 7 months ago
@XenoMurph - it's funny you should say that. I have been teaching on a course today for decision makers and commanders from the emergency services, and the first think we teach is do not use acronyms as it causes confusion - use simple terms that *everyone* can understand!
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SheamusFanFrom1987 7 months ago (edited)
After reading this, this Man-da has come to the conclusion that it's an effed-up world out there (sorry, not sorry). Be safe always, fellow Pandakind...
Tele Avision 7 months ago
I made it to 13 and quit. I don't need these stories hanging out in my memory.
Kim Kermes 7 months ago
None of the overpaid prima donna athletes hold a candle to all of you. You'll sit at the right hand of your diety. It took me 2 tissues to get through this.
Earonn - 7 months ago
No need to s**t on athletes - they didn't create our society that cares more about "sells shoes for my brand" than "does good for the community". If anything, we should strive to change that s**t.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 7 months ago
Absolutely mind boggling that this website censors the most basic word but is willing to compile a list from Reddit of the most gruesome and terrifying calls possible.
Janelle Collard 7 months ago (edited)
First responders go thru all kinds of hell at work so they should all go to heaven when it's their time.
Sathe Wesker 7 months ago
As someone deeply looking into the job as dispatch, this was very unique to come across. I was able to get through it and even have a functioning mindset of what to say to these callers… I think it was an interesting test, as such. But still, I’m well aware of the emotional toll.
UKDeek 7 months ago
Well, 30 years as a Paramedic I could bore you all stupid with various jobs I have done - good, bad and ugly, but I'm not going to for the sake of all our sanity. Remember, life is short, do the things you enjoy, and have that extra slice of cake if you really want to - life is for living.
Gracie Mae 7 months ago
Having family in law enforcement & having worked both on the road & in the jail, I've seen a LOT of horrific stuff. There are 3 jobs I could NEVER do - being a 911 operator tops the list! The other 2 are anything in the medical field and teacher. And I have the utmost respect for those that do!
Uncle Schmickle 7 months ago
These were awful, but certainly made me more aware of the situations these wonderful people have to deal with. Cheers to all emergency workers !
XenoMurph 7 months ago
I wish people with technical knowledge would stop using abbreviations and acronyms in their stories. "I'm a type 4 RGB Nurse riding in a VHSDVD rig, with an OCD extension. We arrived at a BHS with only two HRs. As you can imagine, it was FUBAR."
UKDeek 7 months ago
@XenoMurph - it's funny you should say that. I have been teaching on a course today for decision makers and commanders from the emergency services, and the first think we teach is do not use acronyms as it causes confusion - use simple terms that *everyone* can understand!
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 7 months ago (edited)
After reading this, this Man-da has come to the conclusion that it's an effed-up world out there (sorry, not sorry). Be safe always, fellow Pandakind...
Tele Avision 7 months ago
I made it to 13 and quit. I don't need these stories hanging out in my memory.
Kim Kermes 7 months ago
None of the overpaid prima donna athletes hold a candle to all of you. You'll sit at the right hand of your diety. It took me 2 tissues to get through this.
Earonn - 7 months ago
No need to s**t on athletes - they didn't create our society that cares more about "sells shoes for my brand" than "does good for the community". If anything, we should strive to change that s**t.
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Pelican 7 months ago
Absolutely mind boggling that this website censors the most basic word but is willing to compile a list from Reddit of the most gruesome and terrifying calls possible.
Janelle Collard 7 months ago (edited)
First responders go thru all kinds of hell at work so they should all go to heaven when it's their time.
Sathe Wesker 7 months ago
As someone deeply looking into the job as dispatch, this was very unique to come across. I was able to get through it and even have a functioning mindset of what to say to these callers… I think it was an interesting test, as such. But still, I’m well aware of the emotional toll.
UKDeek 7 months ago
Well, 30 years as a Paramedic I could bore you all stupid with various jobs I have done - good, bad and ugly, but I'm not going to for the sake of all our sanity. Remember, life is short, do the things you enjoy, and have that extra slice of cake if you really want to - life is for living.
Gracie Mae 7 months ago
Having family in law enforcement & having worked both on the road & in the jail, I've seen a LOT of horrific stuff. There are 3 jobs I could NEVER do - being a 911 operator tops the list! The other 2 are anything in the medical field and teacher. And I have the utmost respect for those that do!
Uncle Schmickle 7 months ago
These were awful, but certainly made me more aware of the situations these wonderful people have to deal with. Cheers to all emergency workers !
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