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What was your most difficult call?
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Posted 2 months ago What was the hardest call you have had to deal with in your carreer |
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| Posted 2 months ago losing a premie in your arms when you try all you know |
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| Posted 2 months ago back when i was in high school, running ems, we were dispatched to an auto-x. turns out i was working a pt. who happened to be the boyfriend of a girl i sat right next to in homeroom. she was ejected from the vehicle and pinned between the car and a telephone pole. she ultimately succumbed to her injuries. it took everything in my power to not strangle the guy. eventually, he was found guilty for vehicular manslaughter, even though he wasn't driving. apparently they were physically fighting while she was driving. his actions caused her death and he was held responsible. going to school the next day and seeing a single red rose on her desk was very tough to deal with. i went to her funeral in full uniform to pay my last respects. it was the least i could do. i will remember the day for the rest of my life. |
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| Posted 2 months ago over in iraq we got a call to respond to a civilian car that had run into a military fuel truck. the car was fully ingulfed and it took us about 10 min to get the fire out. went up to look over the car and found what looked to be a one year old and an infint in the back seat they were charred so bad it was hard to tell. what made it worse was mom and dad were just sitting up on the hill watching us with no emotions at all. after the mp's were done talking to them they just walked away never looking back |
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| Posted 2 months ago There are actually two that haunt me to this day. Back years ago when I was in high school running EMS, we were toned to an address that I immediately recognized as my ex-girlfriend's house and the family was lifelong family friends. On arrival, we found her 12 year old little brother had hung himself in his closet. Worked him for a good 45 minutes, but it was useless. The other was along the same time frame. We had just finished an MVA without injuries about 2 AM one morning and a couple of us had gone to the local all night gas station for a cup of coffee. While standing there b.s'ing - we notice an SO officer hauling ass by running hot, so the LT that was with us turned her radio on scan and found out they were on their way to a fully involved trailer fire about a half mile from where we were. Hearing that, we loaded up and headed to the scene as they were toning our radio. On arrival, we found a lady (who happened to be my boss at KFC) was standing on the tongue of this older mobile home, beating on the front window and yelling. After bunkering up, my LT moved her away from the trailer and I went to the tongue and heard screaming coming from inside the trailer. I went to the back door to attempt to make entry, but it was blocked by a huge china hutch. Couldn't make entry through the front because the fire had engulfed the living room and kitchen and was moving rapidly towards the front of the trailer. It seemed to take forever to get a truck on scene (although response time was less than 4 minutes) - but once it got there, our Captain who rode in on the first engine pulled the cross lay and handed it to me. He jumped up on the tongue of the trailer (no more screaming now), hit the glass with the back of an axe and wound up on his ass about 15 feet away. My bosses daughter died in that bedroom that night, and I had to quit my job because she blamed me and made my life a living hell at work. Tough for a 16 / 17 year old to deal with that.................. Ross Caston
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| Posted 2 months ago Two of them. One was a fellow member. The car he was riding in flipped at approx. 70 mph. He died instantly but we worked it because his dad, mom and stepmom are all members of our squad. His dad and stepmother heard the wreck and came out to the scene. I've never had to pull anyone off of a victim before, from grief. That was almost 2 years ago. The other one was not a fatality but was my own son. When he was 18 months old he had a seizure and turned blue and stiff. I have run countless ped seizure calls but this one was mine. We had to ventilate him for at least 1,000 hours until the other medics got there. Actually, the entire county showed up. He ended up being dx'd with epilepsy 2 months ago. He's 3 now. He kept having those seizures and They kept saying febrile and Mark and I kept saying bull#$#. We were right. I don't EVER want to do either of these again. My stomache still gets tight when I think of either one of them. |
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| Posted 2 months ago So far I haven't had any calls that were like that but I know one day I'll run across it. I hope that I will have the power to deal with it and continue firefighting/medical. |
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| Posted 2 months ago i guess the one that is still in my head the most is about two years ago we had a call come in motorcycle vurses tractortrailer,(not good). i was on first arriveing engine and the scene that i saw will forever be burned into my memory. their was two people on the cycle, a forty year old man that had been dismembered on the guard rail, and his twelve year old nephew who had been rocketed about 100' off an embankment. The victims had caught fire from the impact and were still flameing when we arrived on scene. just the sheer amount of blood and matter all over the road was enough to send chills down your spine, i actually froze for a moment and not able to move from the shock, its one of those were you just say holy shit, you know? we did all we could do given the situation, but they were both DOA. one of the hardest things was that the father of the little boy was right behind them and saw the whole thing happen and he was in histarics. |
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| Posted 2 months ago The worst call was this past Labor day when we had a car accident with 2 killed. One was a 56 year old man that was burned and a 17 year old. The worst part was when the mother and father of the 17 year old showed up. There wasn't a dry eye on the scene. I still prayer for both families. "BUCKLE UP!!!" JOHN 15:12-13 Rodney Spires
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| Posted 2 months ago I had two hard calls. The first one was a 2 car MVC where 2 people I knew for many years were killed and the family was looking to me for answers and I really can't say much but it seemed they had been calling for weeks after. The other one was a fatal house fire where I was first in on the attack line. The house was pretty much fully involved and there was not much we could do for the lady, but that did not stop the neighbors from coming up and chewing me out for taking to long to get there. I really wanted to say something but I did't. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I have always had a problem with the homicide calls and suicide calls. "Its better to have and not need, then to need and not have."
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| Posted 2 months ago Toughest call was Christmas Eve. It was about 1:00 and I had just finished putting all the kids toys together. Tones dropped for and infant unresponsive in the Motel across the Highway from the Station. When we got there the baby (about 6 months old) was cold with her hands in fists up by her face. Come to find out Mom was drunk with the Boyfriend. They were all sleeping in the bed and Mom rolled on the baby and smothered her. I wanted to go home and wake up the kids to hug them. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Have to say the hardest I have had was a few years ago we had 3 water rescues within a 3 -4 week time frame, vehicles going off the same bridge into a flooded creek, we saved 2 victims but lost 2 others. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago The hard one was to hear the screams of a mother who lost her little girl as the father walked around and around holding the dead girls body and would not let any one touch him or her, tears falling down like a river...The scream I can still hear till this day just as plan....I am a mom and it moved me so much I cried with them, The only words the mother could say was No,No,No the daddy just cried and walked around in circles holding on to his little girl |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I think any call that involves children is a bad call. We were at the station listening to a police chase in the adjoining city and 15 min later it crossed into our city. We heard the police radio in the accident and were on the way before we dispatched. We found a minivan (that the bad guys were driving, two 17 year old kids) had broad sided a chevy luv pickup at an estimated 60 mph. The pickup had a father and his three kids in the front seat. No one was restrained the youngest was killed instantly, her older sister had to be extricated with a broken femur she never lost consiousness and was hyserical about her little sister. The kids in the van had to chased down on foot by P.D. and only had bruises and scratches. The police should have made them watch us work on that family and see what they had done. Be safe everyone!!! |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Probably the worst call I have run was a MVC where a 7 year old girl was decapitated in the car with her mother and sister. The guy who caused the wreck had called his lawyer in the four minutes it took us to get there and was less than apologetic. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago The most difficult call for me was last year. Two high school girls left a party and hit a telephone pull. I was the 2nd on scene, an other volunteer from another station was behind the car when it hit. He was holding c-spine on one girl and told me to try getting the other girl out. I asked what other girl, she was in the lap of the first female, thrown from the driver seat to the passenger seat and up under the dash. The were pretty young girls the pics that we seen but that night you couldnt even tell that they were even male or female or anything about them. I have a niece that age and driving and made me sick and i still to this day have to pass that sight and it gives me chills and to see there what should have been faces in my dreams. |
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| Posted 23 days ago I think the worst call i went on was a few years ago when i first joined the vollunter fire department i had just turned 18 and and a few hours later we get a call to a house i new all to well it was my best friends house he was distraute over looseing his girlfriend and stoled his dads 38. speceil and walked about a mile and half back into the woods and shot himself and when we got there the coroner could not reach him because it was so rough of terrian,after the officers did there thing we had to load him up on a tarp and put him in a 4x4 truck just to get him out of there,this call happend just a few blocks from the fire house and everytime i go by there i get cold chills and i can never get his face out of my mind |
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| Posted 7 days ago Would have to say any of the multiple aircraft accidents throughout my career, these always seem to involve mutiple fatalities, on the flip side they have also been some of the best especially when we have had multiple survivors due to our work. |
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| Posted 3 days ago they many to called the worst. Death is bad no matter what the age. here are a few that stand out. MVA minivan vs. pickup vs. another mini van. 12 pts. total. 1 fatal 3 critical 8 minor to serious. The pickup truck was blown into the other lane and hit the mini van. which had an 8 yr. old child in the front seat unrestrained. went to pop the passenger door and noticed the childs head on the dashboard. mother holding her mangled legs somehow over her shoulders screaming in pain. pickup truck passengers both had broken necks. 4 other kids uner 12 were also injured in the second mini van from flying glass.
arrived on scene of a 6 month old child that hit his head. walked in and it turned out the child was hit by a falling headboard that was leaning up against the wall. no crying just blank stares and looking around. CSF out the ears. The baby was called later at the hospital.
also all the random highschool kids that commit suicide. gunshot wounds ext. all very hard to handle in such a close knit community. |