Don’t know about your area, but on the scanner here we are having a whale of a Friday night! Heard about a wreck (head-on) just ahead of us as we were coming back from doctor’s office... Trooper Medic (helicopter), 2 ambulances who all transported - and ever since then, ALL ambulances and paramedics in both counties are non-stop...
One exchange a few minutes ago went like - A85 respond to XXX Front Street for an unconscious subject - Kent center be advised we are 45 miles out returning from Christiana - A85 you are the closest available unit I have that’s available. - Delta Response! 10-4 (with the siren starting in the background).
They even are running our volunteer paramedics full throttle even though they called in off duty paramedics and have put them in ambulances.
Call after call - non-stop...
Sure glad wife no longer works in the ER intake processing as she did for over 12 years.
Quite a change from when I was in Texas when I used to drive part time to help my ex father-in-law... Wrecker was usually first on scene until the Highway Patrol and the Undertaker got there... Yep, they used the hearses for ambulances. Wrecker served as rescue unit (pulled apart car with winch so patients could be extracted)Highway Patrol had first aid kits and backboards, and the Undertakers had been trained in first aid. LOL I have seen quite a few absolutely refuse a ride in the hearse - a couple even wanted to go to the hospital riding in the wrecker instead... Making statements like “I’m only going to make ONE ride in a hearse - and it ain’t gonna be now.” were common. It was amazing how much better people would feel when the choice was to ride the stretcher in the hearse or sit in the wrecker for a ride to the hospital. Aches and pains melted away pretty quickly.
I am suddenly hearing a lot of rape cases, child and mature men and women.
There were a lot of passed out people on the streets, no not drunks, for they don’t call an ambulance for the drunks.
Lots of gun fire, even cops were reporting it ....
Tonight we all froze, when a cop yelled “code red, we put them on the ground, and the [mumbled] pulled a gun on us!!!”
No sound of gun fire and no cop said for the record “shots fired”....
Fool on the ground, deserved to be shot, for he intended to shoot, or he would not have pulled him gun.....
They did have a call for a riot earlier.
And there shall be no parked cars on the streets “for no reason”, they are afraid of car bombs, I think.
At times, I get almost shocked at the numbers of bullets that get fired in a 24 hour period, this morning, they were chasing cars that were having a running gun battle.
And this is America today.