Trauma Day...

Today was one of my medic unit days on Medic 7 and did I get my fill of trauma calls. Most of the calls we ran today have been some sort of MVC. We also had a pretty emotional call that I can't get into, but I hope that all those involved are OK and are able to deal with it. I traded the second half of my shift with a co-worker on C-Shift so I will be working again tomorrow evening. I'll give a run down of any news from the C shift.

An Another Hot One..

Today was probably the hottest day so far this year and it has seem to affect the roads in our first due. Engine 7 has run a few accidents today, one of which that had a vehicle go over an embankment. Due to the nature of the call, Truck 2, which I'm driving today also went along. Nothing too serious but we did end up cause quite a traffic jam. It is amazing how quickly traffic can back up by closing just one lane of a four lane highway at 5pm. Other than that it has been a usual day with EMS training, a few medical runs and the daily chores. As I am writing this, I hear and see what appears to be a pretty decent thunderstorm approaching. This usually means business is about to pickup again. Well I'm gonna run and try to catch a few winks before the tones awaken me from my slumber.

Too Busy to post on time..

I am writing this post several days after the shift I worked due to the fact that I really haven't had any free time. Saturday, I was assigned to "ride the seat" on Engine 3. For those of you who are not familiar with Station 3, it's first due area covers all most of the major shopping areas of the city and Liberty University. Well guess what day Saturday was, that's right it was Liberty's graduation day. So that meant an extra 20,000 people in out first due! Our day started out with a vehicle fire on 460 that shut the highway down for a few minute as we extinguished it with the help of Rescue 1. When we got back to the station we received a call from EMS1 to report over to LU to assist the standby medic units with patient care. Apparently the 85 degree weather was taking it's toll on the crowd. After treating dozens of patients, we were able to make it back to eat lunch and responded to a small mulch fire before heading out to the City Stadium for fireworks training for the shift fire inspectors. The class was taught by the company that does a lot of the area fireworks displays. It was a really good class and we got to launch a few fireworks off and see the differences between commercially and professionally available fireworks, theirs not much which is scary. The Rescue responded to a Technical Rescue call out for a rope rescue in Riverside park and that tied them up most of the day. The Engine ended up running 8 calls for the shift. I should have a post tomorrow. Until then, keep it safe.

Fires ???

Sorry for the gap in posts, I've been on the road traveling to different stations back filling vacancies. Since my last post, I've been to Station 3 and Station 4 and back here to Station 7. I can report that the days of the fighting fires have seemed to make a come back. I hear from our admin that our department has run more structure fires so far this year than we did all of last year and we are only four months in to the year. It seems that each shift is averaging a fire a shift. This is good for all the newer firefighters gaining valuable experience that we have lost over that past years due to retirements, however it is a bad thing because that means some one's stuff is tragically being lost.

Medic 7 Rolling Strong...

Back at work again today and riding Medic 7. It's been an all out busy week for the LFD in general. C shift was busy on Monday, A shift was overloaded on Tuesday and had the fatal house fire while being short staffed. And we here on B shift had been keeping up with the trend. I think all the medic units are pushing double digit runs and even the Ladder trucks aka the "sleep sleds" are running the wheels off today. It must be the warm weather, it seems that everyone has awoken from the hibernation and are hitting the city in full force.

Engine 3

Sorry for the delay between posts. Its' that time of the year when I have to take care of all those financial obligations that Uncle Sam requires from me. Now that is behind me, I can return back to posting.
Today I'm on the back of Engine 3. Its been fairly steady this shift. An EMS run, a fire run and a smell of smoke in at the local university. It seems that Engine 3 has been running a lot of fire calls to the local colleges and universities these past few days. Last day they ran a dryer fire in a dorm. There has been quite a few close call fires in the past several weeks. I call them close call fires because our response time is so good that we end up catching them in the early stages. This is not a bad thing for the citizens of Lynchburg.

Back in Action

Sorry for the lapse in posts. I have been too busy with snow and sickness to write much. I am back at Station 7 once again and on the Medic unit. It's been a busy day on the Medic units today. Everyone has been out in full force running calls. As of the post we are sitting on 8 runs. The department is finally settled down of the on slot of massive snowstorms. We handled it well and survived. Six of our members responded to a mutual aid request to Northern VA to help assist them with the snow. We wish them luck and a speedy return.