Medical after Medical after Medical

Well, apparently yesterday was a very busy day for the fire department. They have something like 8 medical calls.

I was lucky enough (if you want to call it that) to attend an medical assist call. A gentleman had fallen out of bed & was unable to get back in. The only reason that I got to go out on that call was because the guys had received another call about 3 minutes before for a 10yr girl that was unresponsive. As the Truck-22 was reponding, dispatch came over the air & updated the guys saying that they where now perfoming CPR on the child.

From what the Lt was saying, the girl passed away upon arrival at the hospital. The worst thing of it all is that it was her birthday on August 24th. The parents where apparently devastated.

When I got home from those 2 calls, I turned on the scanner & just listened to it with Allison as we where getting ready to go to bed - at our usual 1am and Codiac was pretty busy along with the Ambulance service. Well, I heard that the ambulance was going to the hospital with a patient & they came on the air asking for the Fire Dept cause there was a car that was on fire. As I was laying there, I said to Allison - too bad that's not me!

Well, like they say, you get what you wish for. Shortly after 2am, we got a call that Ditech had fire in their walls. Well, we got on scene & the first truck - Engine-21 was able to put the fire out without any additional assistance. We simply rolled up the hose & cleaned it off at the station. All in all, I think we had 10 guys & 3 trucks that responded. Pretty good turn out for 2am! I was lucky enough to get back into bed by 4am!

This morning I also had the joy of getting up early to go & visit Dr Sylvie LeBlanc for Allison's check up. This is going to be the last time we see her for a year...

Well, that's pretty much it for now!

'til the next call comes in!