Recent content by rescuebill

Yet another installment of Bill’s weird :censored::censored::censored::censored:-o-meter calls !! You just can’t make this stuff up, and I swear every bit of it is entirely true. This call happened a couple of months ago, while working with a girl named Candi. Anyhow, its Sunday Evening...

For all of those who would suggest to just "let them puke, it's just a little clean up, so be a man and clean it up" I submit for your consideration that it's not just about clean up. It is also about possible exposure, and lenght of clean up. While I am cleaning up, I am not available for...

I don't know specifically what PA's statutes say, but just because you are an EMT, Paramedic, or a Boy Scout with the First Aid Merit Badge, doesn't mean that you can't interfer with a scene. In Maryland a couple of years ago, 2 firefighters got into a fist fight at a fire, and both were...

Doctor told me the other day the patient's labs were "AFU". I never heard that before. Doc looked at my confused face and said " all F:censored:d Up "

Our apparatus in Maryland all had headset intercom systems installed. Everybody had push to talk headsets, which allowed them to talk on the intercom. Driver and Officer had voice activated intercom, and push to talk for the radio. I am sure most of you have figured out where this is...

While not an official call that I was on, it is one that happened in the town I work in. Seems the neighbors had been being "terrorized" by a certain neighbor’s pit bull. Mailman refused to enter the yard due to this "ferocious" beast on the front porch. Apparently this went on for days...

While I was a Paramedic in Maryland, I wore a Maryland Paramedic patch on 1sleeve, and my affiliation patch on the other, regardless of what level I was working at. If I went out on the BLS ambo, I was still a Paramedic, just on a BLS truck, If I worked a suppression shift, driving the engine...