Incident 11-1659, 30 May 2011, 22:03 hrs. Mack505 commanding. “Fire Alarm to responding units, the caller reports the patient is turning blue.”
It’s a ‘nice’ neighborhood; one where we don’t often see an overdose. We arrive in the kitchen of a well-kept single family home to find the firefighters manually breathing for our patient. He’s not our usual heroin overdose patient, either. He’s in [...]
Incident 10-282, 17 Jan 2010, 22:21 hrs. Mack505 commanding. A wide state road crosses rolling countryside in the pre-dawn darkness. I roll along at the speed limit, following a dim set of tail lights on the horizon ahead.
I have a date with a sunrise.
Houses emerge from the darkness and flash past; red brick farms with large white porches, small modulars and trailer [...]
Incident 09-115, 03 Dec 2009, 00:51 hrs. Mack505 commanding. The phone rang as we walked into the kitchen. “Isn’t it awful what happenned to those poor Worcester firemen?” my wife’s grandmother asked.
We had been away all weekend, and in the days before smartphones, Facebook, and Twitter, we hadn’t heard. The TV was no use on a Sunday evening, so we were sent running [...]
Incident 09-114, 25 Nov 2009, 21:14 hrs. Mack505 commanding. Last night I was happy to notice that I’d achieved 99 posts here at Notes. I made big plans for #100; I’d have a success story; something happy; and given the date, something for which to be thankful. Then my day took a left turn. Straight into the Jersey barriers.
Chang came to us in [...]
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