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[Engine81]

So I was riding out at FS81 in Van Nuys on E81. E81 and RA81 got dispatched to an Auto vs Pedestrian call around 8:45 p.m. Additionally E7 and R7 were added due to reports of multiple patients. E81 was first o/s and we saw a woman ,who had gone under the car, lying in the middle of the street. E81 and RA81 personnel immediately began working on the woman. As she was being worked on, a young girl came to me and began pulling my turnout coat and yelling to me "the baby! the baby!". I immediately followed her and came across the vehicle and a stroller which had been pinned to the front. The baby was being pulled out of the stroller by witnesses and was handed to me. I immediately began to check if the baby was responsive and it was not. RA7 then pulled up next to me and I handed the toddler over to them. I later found out that the baby was fine. We then found a 2nd daughter which had a head injury. RA881 transported her to the hospital also. All 3 family members survived and made a recovery. 

 

Link to the story in the local news: http://www.nbclosang...-216896351.html

[MCERT1]

I'll give a short one with a moral:

 

    My last day of FF 1 training we did a series of full evolutions, the last being a basement fire. We entered the burn building through the second floor doorway in attack tams of 3. My group pulled to the door clean and got inside with plenty of hose (probably too much in hindsight). I was nozzleman and started the push down the stairs. When I reached a landing, which I assumed was the basement floor, I had to stand up to help feed the line down the center of the staircase. Once I finished I went to get back on my knees and start the crawl to the fire, and I started to feel forward, right off the edge of the landing...It was a slow motion somersault down the flight of stairs.

     When I hit the floor I had to take stock, and determined I was only slightly bruised, my mask seal was still good, and the hoseline had gotten away in the fall. I was able to re-combobulate and make a pretty quick knock on the fire.

The Moral of the story: Because my gear was on securely and fit properly I was able to continue my job safely. 

[youdotoo]

@Mcert1 How many jokes were made after that?  

[MCERT1]

There have been more jokes as time has passed. When it first happened I think I scared the daylights out of everyone too bad. 

[Hokiefireman]

Got dispatched for a fire in a single family home. We were running three man crews at the time, so I'm on nozzle and Lt. is behind me, we go in through wide open front door. Visibility is getting worse by the second, we feel down the hall and finally see the flames, he whole time I keep knocking over glass bottles and feeling squishy "things" beneath my knees. Get knock down and the next two units vent. About this time we realize the hall was full of liquor bottles full of piss and plastic bags full of shit. We were covered in it. Had to be hosed down while on air.

Had a lot of great fires my first two years on in Ohio but the last year it really died down.

[Blackout]

March 15, 2012

 

Dispatched code 4 (lights and siren) to roll over on Highway 1 (trans-Canada highway) near Chaplin.

Dispatch information: "You're responding for a single vehicle rollover, bystanders state there are bodies in the ditch"

All 5 occupants of the truck were drinking, they were driving ~150km/h and rolled their truck

Upon arrival there were 3 DOA, 2 still alive were ejected from the truck. First responders still had not found the 5th pt, who was still alive.

Spinal immobilized the 2 alive pts, load and go, go them to the regional hospital where they were stabilized, and then sent code 4 to the trauma center 50 min away.

Both pt's lived and are (surprisingly) both able to walk

 

2 most memorable parts of that call:

- all 5 of the pts weren't wearing footwear (they were thrown so fast their their shoes and socks came off)

- my partner and I stopped on the way back to base to watch the northern lights which I had never seen so bright before.

http://www.swiftcurr...17390&Itemid=33

[Fred03]

Yeah you'll often find trauma patients missing their clothing, I believe Mythbusters did a show on the "knock your socks off" effect.

[MCERT1]

December 2012,

 

     I was working night shift in the communications center. We we're working a 3 person shift (1 police dispatcher, 1 fire dispatcher, and 1 floating dispatcher-ME). It had been a quiet Sunday night, and we were just abut to put in a movie and make some popcorn... The fire dispatcher takes a call, the guy on the line says he's on his roof. It sounds interesting so I jump on the line, assuming it's an attempt. When I click on I can hear a beeping in the background, and he repeats he's on the roof and the building is on fire. He can't get out the door, the hallway and the stairs are on fire.The building was a mixed use ,a store front with apartments above. Suddenly every line lights up in the center, and there all people stating they're trapped by the fire. The 3 of us start grabbing them while we started the dispatch.

     One of our county sheriff officers is just down the street. He gets on scene and advised multiple subjects jumping, and the building was well involved with fire blowing out alpha and the roof. second unit on scene was our full time EMS unit. A film crew that was down the street had pulled a van in front of the building to help people out of the windows. The EMT driving gets out and catches a baby thrown from the second story. They then pushed the van aside and used the larger box on the ambulance to get people out of the second story. They scream out on the radio declaring an MCI. The volunteer department just a few blocks away ran the tower out the door first to help effect rescue. Every LEO in the area responded to help assist with the rescues.

     In less than 15 minutes we had stuck the box for a 5th alarm plus the MCI incident, with fire and ems crews from 3 counties. We had over 20 fire trucks and 23 ambulances on scene, treating about the same number of patients. The bulk of the incident took place over 4 hours, but still feels like it took 25 minutes. Despite some serious injuries, no one was killed in the incident. The arsonist, who lit the fire in the buildings only hall and stairwell, has yet to be caught.

 

That will remain one of the finest and most terrifying nights of my life.

[LAD23DER]

December 2012,
 
     I was working night shift in the communications center. We we're working a 3 person shift (1 police dispatcher, 1 fire dispatcher, and 1 floating dispatcher-ME). It had been a quiet Sunday night, and we were just abut to put in a movie and make some popcorn... The fire dispatcher takes a call, the guy on the line says he's on his roof. It sounds interesting so I jump on the line, assuming it's an attempt. When I click on I can hear a beeping in the background, and he repeats he's on the roof and the building is on fire. He can't get out the door, the hallway and the stairs are on fire.The building was a mixed use ,a store front with apartments above. Suddenly every line lights up in the center, and there all people stating they're trapped by the fire. The 3 of us start grabbing them while we started the dispatch.
     One of our county sheriff officers is just down the street. He gets on scene and advised multiple subjects jumping, and the building was well involved with fire blowing out alpha and the roof. second unit on scene was our full time EMS unit. A film crew that was down the street had pulled a van in front of the building to help people out of the windows. The EMT driving gets out and catches a baby thrown from the second story. They then pushed the van aside and used the larger box on the ambulance to get people out of the second story. They scream out on the radio declaring an MCI. The volunteer department just a few blocks away ran the tower out the door first to help effect rescue. Every LEO in the area responded to help assist with the rescues.
     In less than 15 minutes we had stuck the box for a 5th alarm plus the MCI incident, with fire and ems crews from 3 counties. We had over 20 fire trucks and 23 ambulances on scene, treating about the same number of patients. The bulk of the incident took place over 4 hours, but still feels like it took 25 minutes. Despite some serious injuries, no one was killed in the incident. The arsonist, who lit the fire in the buildings only hall and stairwell, has yet to be caught.
 
That will remain one of the finest and most terrifying nights of my life.

Wow! Good job!

[Voodoo_Operator]

My favorite emergency story ever: https://www.flickr.c...der/2760259659/

[willowfork fire capt]

This week one of my teachers got in a car accident with an 18 wheeler