Feeling A Little "Altered" Myself !

While nice weather has returned to southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia, my foot problems jumped from one shoe to the other for the first time and now I find myself on day 3 with leg in the air and icebag on the toe.  A shame, I could be getting some work done at the LazyB or at least starting a couple of small projects (a shame, riiiiiiigggggghhhhhhtttttttttttt!).

 

Meanwhile, on the scanner, the week has been quiet at the firehouse until this morning's call out for a 4 car accident.  Before I could even look up the location on google maps the Chief was on-scene with "multiple airbags deployed" (he works 1/4 mile from the station and the accident was 1/4 from the station in the other direction on US 11, a narrow country 2 lane).  I had decided to not respond since he is also an EMT for an adjoining county and would have everything done by the time I could possibly get there.  I figured if he gave a scene report indicating an extrication was required then I would start that way.  Within 5 minutes two volunteers had already come up on the air to ask if he wanted manpower to respond from the station and with his go ahead they brought Rescue 4 up the street (probably to clean up the scene with absorbant and brooms). Chris then came on the radio and asked for the ETA of the police..  He then advised the Medic unit that was responding that one patient first asked for an ambulance, then declined an ambulance and was now acting "a little altered" LOL!

The cops stepped up their response, everything got sorted out, and the funny patient got to walk away without a ride either in the ambulance or the deputy's car.  Everyone was in service 15 minutes after the dispatch - just about the time it would have taken me to get there.