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Working our own
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Posted 3 months ago I am a Volunteer Chief. My full time job is a paramedic in our county. In the last 4-5 years, we have had 2 calls for our own. The first was a new EMT that had just started with us. She was 21. Her family did rodeo stuff and while she was unloading gates, they fell and crushed her breaking her neck. The second was another EMT who had suffered a massive heart attack. He was 48. He had worked for the service for 16 years and was a division chief with another department in the county. It was my privlage (some would say displeasure) to serve my brother and sister in this matter. At the time, I thought I was being followed by a black cloud. Fourtunately, the director got ahold of the regional CISD team and I was able to express myself. It really helped, but what helped more was the fact that my family was there to comfort me. If you have never worked one of our own, I pray that you don't. If you do, consider it an honor, not a curse.
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| Posted 3 months ago yeah, Been there. MVC 25 y.o. Paramedic ended up with a basal skull fx. It was instant. Thank goodness. 1 year and 3 months later, it is still hard but I don't consider it a curse anymore. There was nothing I could do. We worked it anyway, for his mom, but it was done. They brought in the state CISM team for us. They were PARAMOUNT to our recovery. His entire family are still members and they run in his honor. So do we. Now we can laugh about things Andy used to do. He was a big knothead! :D He was a prankster and would do all kinds of stuff that everybody still remembers and laughs about! He was great! It was an honor to know him and hard to let go but He would've wanted it that way. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Been dispatched to one of my captain's house that was on fire (who was recently seriously injured in a motorcycle accident) and another captain that was in a wreck (twice). I didn't make the call, but the worst was the wife of one of my firefighters that was DOA in a MVA. He was one of the first to arrive on scene and somehow managed to act professional through it all. |