So far I've managed to oversleep, and be 15 minutes late to work for my overtime shift. This is probably the third time over the past year that I've done it to the Shanyne, whom I was supposed to relieve at 4:30pm. I told him that to make up for it, to come in next Monday morning at 9:30-10:00, as that's the next shift he is supposed to relieve me, but he keeps saying to forget about it.
Interesting note from my last post. Work did end up being a doozie last night, as around 5 am., a house blew up in Griswold, which we took like 20-30 calls on, and dispatched Griswold, Jewett City, Voluntown, Lisbon, and the Taftville FAST team, along with Griswold Ambulance for standby. We'll that opened a can of worms, as a brief rain shower had gone through the state about an hour before that, causing severe ice conditions in the area. So, on the way to the fire, Griswold Ambulance decides to slide head-on into a tree. This must have been the back breaker, as we then recieved several medical calls in that area for slip n' falls, and your usual medicals. This caused us to use Lisbon's ambulance twice, and a bunch of American Ambulance BLS and ALS units. Jewett City's ET-156 was held back to cover Griswold's fire house during the fire, and ended up flying back and forth across the town of Griswold as the lone First Responder medical coverage. Next thing we know, they sign off at a slip n' fall in Jewett City, and the officer starts screaming over the radio. Apparently when they got out and started treating the patient, the truck continued to slide down the road past them and crashed into, and over a stone wall!!
Eventually the town highway department got out and started to sand the trouble spots, and Jewett City was able to get their truck off the stone wall. The wrecker had a tough time getting the ambulance out of the woods, but was later successful after a few passes of a sand truck. All in all, it was a crazy end to a shift, things worked out okay, and we managed to get through the big "C-F", (cluster f@@@). No wonder why I overslept this afternoon...LOL
8 years ago
5 comments:
Hell's bells, Boukie - I would have to say that "Cluster fuck" is a very appropriate label for this post! I had heard that things were hopping and popping up in Griswold today but I hadn't heard about the truck going over the stone wall.
Just glad I was home safe and warm sleeping during all that icing. Poor Russ!
Gosh nothing happened when I was in dispatch, this is the mayhem I was expecting :)
Personally I think the people of Norwich are too scared to play up when Linda is in work.....
lol
Looks like you guys are starting off the New year crazzzy! Sometimes I have to admit I get a tiny bit jealous of you guys being busy up north! lol. But then I love my slow & boring Kentucky nights also!
I agree with you there Paige. We're used to considering 4-5 dispatched calls a night "busy". But this past week since the New Years, it's been crazy. I like the action, because it makes the night go by quicker, but still, it's nice to sit at work and get paid to do as little as possible...LOL
That is very true, Erik! I work 3rd shift by myself and love the peace and quiet and our 4-5 calls makes us feel busy also! lol. I just looked at your myspace too. 37 fire depts!!!!! dang. I'm also loving the Boston pictures!
To get the playlist on your blog..add the gadget for the html codes and use the same code that you used for you myspace. I was TICKED when myspace deleted mine! haha.
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