Welcome to the Jungle
Wow, what a welcome back to work. After taking a couple of months off for school I went back to work yesterday. The shift started off with a bang, pardon the pun. First call out of the blocks was a guy who called 911 saying that he was depressed about his girlfriend breaking up with him and was suicidal. The SWAT team surrounded his house and he would not put down the rifle he was pointing at officers. He fired it once and one of the officers returned fire right in to his stomach. I cant imagine what 4 9mm rounds to the stomach might feel like but this guy was taking it pretty well.
Just a aside I have had this theory about suicide, there has got to be nothing more depressing then when you are actually trying to kill yourself and fail. And I mean really fail, you hear every now and then about people that jump from bridges and shoot themselves in the head but live and are horribly disfigured. I think you could take one of two options after something like that, option A: wow, there is a God and he really wants me to live and I am so lucky to be alive, option B: holy crap!! I thought my life sucked before and I cant even get killing myself right. Not to mock people with true issues that they need to be dealt with but it is kinda sad if you think about it.
Alright, back to the topic at hand, my crazy shift. So things go along business as usual for the rest of the afternoon, go to some nursing homes, watch some afternoon USA movie and try and nap. Then things started to pick up, the calls were coming in left and right and then the big one hits. Starts out as a possible shooting in front of station 29 and quickly progresses to much more. Turns out there was a car in the fire station parking lot and at someone decided to unload a clip from a 9mm into the cab of the car hitting all 4 occupants. This is what the guys in the fire station discovered once they picked themselves off the floor and dawned there flack jackets. Pretty much the whole world responded to the call, fire, medics, PD, private ambulance and every other onlooker that heard the shots. It was a chaotic scene but still had that crazy efficiency that I have become accustomed to at an accident. Only 1 was DOA and last I heard the other 3 were still in critical condition up at Harborview. It is calls like that that make up for al the BS that we run.
Just a aside I have had this theory about suicide, there has got to be nothing more depressing then when you are actually trying to kill yourself and fail. And I mean really fail, you hear every now and then about people that jump from bridges and shoot themselves in the head but live and are horribly disfigured. I think you could take one of two options after something like that, option A: wow, there is a God and he really wants me to live and I am so lucky to be alive, option B: holy crap!! I thought my life sucked before and I cant even get killing myself right. Not to mock people with true issues that they need to be dealt with but it is kinda sad if you think about it.
Alright, back to the topic at hand, my crazy shift. So things go along business as usual for the rest of the afternoon, go to some nursing homes, watch some afternoon USA movie and try and nap. Then things started to pick up, the calls were coming in left and right and then the big one hits. Starts out as a possible shooting in front of station 29 and quickly progresses to much more. Turns out there was a car in the fire station parking lot and at someone decided to unload a clip from a 9mm into the cab of the car hitting all 4 occupants. This is what the guys in the fire station discovered once they picked themselves off the floor and dawned there flack jackets. Pretty much the whole world responded to the call, fire, medics, PD, private ambulance and every other onlooker that heard the shots. It was a chaotic scene but still had that crazy efficiency that I have become accustomed to at an accident. Only 1 was DOA and last I heard the other 3 were still in critical condition up at Harborview. It is calls like that that make up for al the BS that we run.
posted by kmorse at 11:58 AM
2 Comments:
Wow. Sounds like one of your craziest shifts ever.
Here is the article about that shooting. And here is the one about the suicidal guy.
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