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zac41 Night Shift Deputy 
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I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 6 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and found none. I start CPR anyway hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too late. But wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to try and save his life. I wish you knew the unique smell of burning insulation, the taste of soot-filled mucus, the feeling of intense heat through your turnout gear, the sound of flames crackling, the eeriness of b eing able to see absolutely nothing in dense smoke-sensations that I've become too familiar with. I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a call, Is this a false alarm or a working fire? How is the building constructed? What Hazards await me? Is anyone trapped?" Or to call and ask what is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2x4 or a gun? I wish you could be in the emergency room, as a doctor pronounces dead, the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes, knowing she will never go on her first date or say the words, "I love you Mommy", ever again. I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the ambulance or engine or cruiser, the driver with his foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic. When you need us however, your first comment upon our arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!" I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. What if this was my daughter, sister, my girlfriend or a friend? What were her parent's reaction going to be when they opened the door to find a police officer with hat in hand? I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call. I wish you could know how it feels dispatching officers, firefighters and Paramedics out and when we call for them and our heart drops because no one answers back or to hear a bone chilling 911 call of a child or wife needing assistance. I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally and sometimes physically abuse us or belittle what we do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me". I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain of missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen. I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life or preserving someone's property, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos. I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking, "Is my Mommy okay?", not being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say. Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches his buddy having CPR done on him as they take him away in the Medic Unit. You know all along he did not have his seat belt on. A sensation that I have become too familiar with. Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, we are, or what our job really means to us...I wish you could though.
____________________ 06 Outlander 800 XT Camo-Ricochet skidz, HMF pipe, Dobeck, Dalton 03 Honda Rincon- MBRP pipe, Dynojet Kit, K&N  Team Outty 800 Member #4 |
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outlandish AWF Admin 
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 Right on Zac and thank you for being one of ours
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mrs.cementhead Member 
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I used to be on a first responders for the paramedic unit team in my home town, before I moved up to northern MN and nothing makes me madder than seeing people who do not get out of the way for emergency equipment. I had a rude awakening on February 11, 1998 when I received a pager call that a first responder was needed to a house fire at 116 W. Christina Ave. for a man with breathing problems and I had already knew that the call was for my father. my parents lost there home that day and I became angry at the firefighters because how could they stand by drinking coffee while my parents house was burning to the ground. I asked one of them why and he said I am sorry but our lines are all frozen and with this strong wind and cold tempuraters we can not save the house it is too far gone already and we can't stop it, I than started to calm down and relized that they were trying there best. My father already had been taken by ambulance before I got there, and is still with us today , thanks to firefighters, police, and ambulance crews and everyday I am thankful to everyone who puts on a uniform. thanks zac for wearing a uniform wear it proud you deserve it!!!
____________________ mrs. cementhead happily married and mother of 5 children Proud Grandmother of 4 335 polaris rider |
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