Re: 911:: Turkey Domestics

[Guest guest]

For years I have wanted to do Bingo on Fri nights...make up bingo cards with

offenses/types of call...everyone is afraid to do it, afraid we'll get in

trouble. I think it would be fun.

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> Date: 2003/11/28 Fri AM 12:54:56 EST

> To: 911console

> Subject: 911:: Turkey Domestics

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> My shift started at 1430hrs today. When everyone got

> all their stuff brought in and settled I suggested

> that we should start a pool for the 1st Turkey

> Domestic. We can all through in a few bucks and pick

> a time the 1st domestic would come in. As I was

> talking I heard our 1st domestic go out already not

> even 5 mins after we had been there. We never even

> got a chance to guess on times. Oh well, maybe next

> year we will pick our times on Wednesday and come in

> prepared.

>

> Marty

[Guest guest]

I worked yesterday 0700 to 1500 and we had two domestics before noon... (why

cant folks just get along)... and our first doa by 0800, but after that it was

very slow. And now as I sit here sipping my pre work coffee they are lining

up at the local Walmart to get the after thanksgiving deals... and its only 15

degrees out there.

Hope everyone out there had a great thanksgiving and my coffee cup is raised

to a slow shift for all!!

[Guest guest]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 at 07:55:51 EST,

wrote:

>

> we had two domestics before noon... (why cant folks

> just get along)... and our first doa by 0800,

>

Thanksgiving Day I always think about my first Thanksgiving holiday

dispatching for y Creek Fire Department at Walt Disney World. I'd been

on the job 9 months. First call, very first call of my holiday day shift

was from a jogger who found another jogger lying face down on the jogging

path: unconscious, not breathing, no detectable pulse. I initiated

EMD/bystander CPR and my partner dispatched appropriate units.

Patient was well off traveled road surfaces on a jogging path at Fort

Wilderness, a campground on Walt Disney World property. Ambulance, engine,

and EMS supervisor arrived at the parking lot quickly but arrival with the

patient took a bit longer because of the remote location. The person who

found the patient was soon joined by other early morning joggers who

assisted in maintaining CPR until the EMS crews arrived. They passed the

cell phone around to whomever wasn't doing CPR so I could stay on the phone

with them.

Paramedics worked the guy all the way to the hospital. Hospital ER doc

called it.

Disney Security (proprietary guard force not connected to the fire

department or the y Creek Improvement District) assisted by the Orange

County Sheriff's Office spent the rest of the morning trying to identify

guy and notify his family. He was jogging alone with no ID in a resort

filled with tens of thousands of people for the 4-day holiday. Turns out he

was there with his entire family who had gone on to the parks while he was

jogging. Found the family in one of the theme parks sometime that evening.

Happy Thanksgiving.

-jackie

Jackie McElroy

Washington, D.C.

http://www.mcjackie.com

[Guest guest]

One of our local television stations came in to

interview a couple folks for a story on people who

have to work Thanksgiving. The woman on the radio

next to me was interviewed and in response to one of

the questions, she said, " It's been pretty slow

today. "

That did it! She was busy, busy for a while after

that. Had a pursuit, several domestics, an overdose.

It just didn't stop for a while.

The nice thing is, after the story aired on the 10

o'clock news, we got several anonymous calls saying

thank you and telling us happy Thanksgiving.

=====

Kim

I make a difference

Tulsa, OK

If you hear a voice within you saying you cannot paint, then by all means paint

and the voice will be silenced. -- Van Gogh