RE: 911:: personal Tragedies

[Guest guest]

Yep, I answered to hear my grandmother requesting an ambulance for my

grandfather, who was having chest pains.....he was fine, but it was weird

hearing her

familiar voice on the 911 line.

Adam L. Cook

Festus MO 911

[Guest guest]

I went to work one morning and my youngest son was spending the night at a

neighbors house, I was sitting at work only there for about 15 mins, drinking my

coffee when the 911 line rang, it was my neighbor (where my son was spending

the night) he was having a diabetic seizure and bleeding from his mouth.. I

threw my headset off and raced out of the room. It was only a six block drive

and I beat the paramedics there... stop signs? what stop signs!!!! Scary

morning.. thank goodness there were three of us there, typically there are only

two

in the room making it impossible for me to run from the room in an emergency.

My guardian angel was watching out for us that day!!!

[Guest guest]

I took the call from my husband's grandmother when his grandfather had a

major heart attack and died. I worked the board when my uncle (bi-polar)

fired shots at the police and then shot himself. I took a call from my

husband's uncle when he walked in and found his wife of 30 years with

her throat cut from ear to ear.

A. Katt

Bay County Central Dispatch 9-1-1

1228 Washington Ave.

Bay City MI 48708

kattm@... (work)

michelle_katt@... (home)

www.co.bay.mi.us

[Guest guest]

>I took the call from my husband's grandmother when his grandfather had a

>major heart attack and died. I worked the board when my uncle (bi-polar)

>fired shots at the police and then shot himself. I took a call from my

>husband's uncle when he walked in and found his wife of 30 years with

>her throat cut from ear to ear.

God, , that's enough for one person. Does this black cloud follow you

away from work?

[Guest guest]

well fortunately I dont answer for the Town I live in. But

infortunately Im a fireman/EMT for my town and I wasnt home to Help

in anyway. As a person whos made it there life goal to help others,

Im trying to get over the fact I couldnt help the one person who

meant the most to me When she needed it. I'm also wondering about

what will happen When I go back to work. I always cursed out the

people After they hung up without doing prearrival Cpr. I had a guy

call in one time whos friend OD on something and wasnt breathing So

I start rescue Breathing instructions. He said he threw up, SO I

told him he would have to scoop it out. His response was Nah thats

ok Hes dead and he hung up. Ems on scene rescuscitated him and he

lives. I cursed hjim out good after the recorders were offline. I

wonder how I will do when a call comes in like that again...

op92

county Sheriffs COmmunications NJ

[Guest guest]

((guardian angels fly our way)) so glad it all worked out.

Aint it wonderful????? Blessings....<<<<<)))(((((>>>>>>

Cindi in Ohio

[Guest guest]

One weekend when I was at drill, my dad called 9-1-1

because he said he got a call from my phone and heard

me yelling and scuffling. He thought I was being

attacked. My really good friend called me on my cell

phone and asked if I was OK. I said I was fine, I was

on my way to the medical squadron to get shots. She

said, " Well, someone must be in your house " and then

told me what happened. I raced to my apt, walked

through it with the officers. My dad had already left

(he met the officers there) because everything looked

fine there and it was obvious I was not there. He

figured he looked at the phone number wrong and it

must have been my sister, so he was on the way there.

After walking through the apt, I headed to my sister's

house. I took a chance and called my dad's house on

the way there and he said that the call was not from

my sister's house, but from my cell phone. I said,

well, I had my phone with me the whole time and I was

fine. Then, it hit me. I had, a long time before,

programmed my dad's number into speed dial. I had the

phone in my coat and apparently, when I sat down, it

dialed him. What he heard was my coat rustling as I

walked and me talking to the guys--we were probably

horsing around.

Anyway, not really a tragedy, but Dad sure thought it

was for a while.

=====

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

[Guest guest]

Just goes to show that when it comes to pre-arrival, we can only do as much

as the person on the other end of the phone is willing to do. I don't cuss

'em out, I just leave it with them to live with. I make sure they understand

the consequences and let them make the decision. They have to live with it,

I don't.

It may sound like a sucky attitude, but it's they way I have to deal with

it.

Ed

Re: 911:: personal Tragedies

> I had a guy

> call in one time whos friend OD on something and wasnt breathing So

> I start rescue Breathing instructions. He said he threw up, SO I

> told him he would have to scoop it out. His response was Nah thats

> ok Hes dead and he hung up. Ems on scene rescuscitated him and he

> lives. I cursed hjim out good after the recorders were offline. I

> wonder how I will do when a call comes in like that again...

>

> op92

> county Sheriffs COmmunications NJ

[Guest guest]

I didn't answer for a death, but in March of 1999, after 9 months on the

job, I took a 9-1-1 call from a cell phone (prior to any info being

displayed on the ANI/ALI screen) and was told of a house on fire. I

calmly asked the address and on hearing MY address, asked once more for

the address, and again, it was MY address. Fortunately, I had a partner

on shift and was released immediately to go and check on my family (my

husband and 2 of my 3 children were at home). The house ended a total

loss but all family (including the cat!) were well and intact.

Freida

La Vergne, TN

Deep regards to the person who lost their mother, sounds like you were

not at work at the time (so you didn't take the call)but has that every

happen to one of you, you answer the 911 line and found out its one of

your family in need of help? (accident etc)

[Guest guest]

At 06:33 PM on 12/27/2003,

Mark Panitz wrote:

>

> but has that every happen to one of you, you answer

> the 911 line and found out its one of your family in need

> of help? (accident etc)

Three times: sent an ambulance for my daughter who was 5 years old at the

time when she fell on a playground and sustained a suturable laceration to

the underside of her tongue; sent an ambulance for my wife who was having a

strange reaction to her seizure control meds; dispatched first alarm to a

commercial structure fire at a local Wal-Mart where my wife was working.

She reported a confirmed fire (small) while a central station was calling

in a fire alarm at the same store.

-jackie

Jackie McElroy

Washington, D.C.

http://www.mcjackie.com

[Guest guest]

That's what happened to my 2 yo son last year. It was scary at the time.

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From: Annette@...

The good news (which I learned about six minutes into the call) is that she

began breathing again. It was later diagnosed as a febrile seizure, which I

now know quite commonly comes in as a baby not breathing. Since she is 26

years old now - I guess she is receovered.

[Guest guest]

My personal tragedy is that my estranged husband committed " suicide by cop "

on my son's 4th birthday (he's 11 now).

I still work for the police department that was involved, because I have

never blamed them for my husband's problems. It was very awkward at first

to go back to work, but I loved my job and needed to support my two children

I'm glad I stuck with it.

Unfortunately he couldn't work things out in his mind. I truly belive if I

would have gone to his house that morning, me and/or our kids may have been

involved in a murder-suicide. Instead, the police department became

involved in about an 8 hour stand-off with him, until he came out pointing

his gun at the officers. I, somehow, became the negotiator. He would not

talk to the officers on the phone (we didn't have the equipment to tap into

the phones at that time. We do now). But, he had blocked the phone and

only would communicate through me. Every time the negotiator would call

the operator, explain the situation to the operator, and interrupt the line,

he would just hang up on them. So, I became the negotiator, I suppose

because I worked with them. So, here I was, in this situation where I had

to put my 9-1-1 Dispatcher/Call-taker face on and do what I had to do.

Which meant relaying everything he did and was saying to the command center

and try to negotiate with him myself. Hard to do with someone who is as

emotionally distraught as he was. It was a long 8 hours!

The only thing I can say now, is I wish we had the Taser back then. Maybe,

just maybe, things would have ended up different.

It has been a very long and hard road for us. The kids attend a bi-weekly

support group called, " The Willow Center, a place for grieving children " .

which gives them a chance to have a place to talk about it if they feel like

it.