4 calls to blog about

We went to a house fire that was room & contents. My energy was gone in about 2 minutes. Holy crap I didn't realize I was weakened that much from being sick (got sent home sick the shift before). I did my best to pull some sheetrock, then just stood around with everyone once we finished tearing stuff up. The fire was pretty much out as we arrived, so it was time to put away hoses about 30 minutes after we got there.

Then, we responded to a 13yo that was wrestling around with his mother. She simply stated "he has mood problems, shut the door, he'll run." Apparently, the kid is known to local PD, the officer was familiar with the kid's story. Kid's dad is in jail and mom says he wants nothing more than to be with him. Kinda feel sorry for him, until he swiped my partner's phone. When we first got there, mom was sitting on him on the steps just inside the house. My partner grabbed the kid's wrists and made him sit near the sofa. We ended up wrestling a tiny bit with the kid, and eventually left the scene to PD.

We ran a few other not so interesting calls throughout the day. Overnight, we ran 2 that were just, wow.

The first was in a house that I swear had a drug-growing operation. The smell of marijuana almost slapped you hard enough to leave a mark when they opened the door. I could see a pile of it as big as both of my hands in another room. There was 1 room that was blocked off, and from outside, the windows had a blueish glow....blacklight. I've already notified the local PD's narcotics division and plan to work with them in any way possible.

The other call, I felt for the person. Local streetwalker (aka hooker) was raped, beaten, and left naked and semi-conscious in 40-something degree weather. She looked to be about 40, had a nasty black eye, and was really skinny. I'm thinking she may not be able to afford food on a regular basis. The one thing that may make her case, is that the f*cktard who did this to her, left the used condom at the scene.

All in all, it was a long shift and we didn't get much sleep. In fact, the truck I was on usually takes the medical calls for the engine. In the wee hours of the morning, they took one of our calls, to give us a break. I never loved those guys so much as in that moment. I still came home and napped for 5 hours. It may not have hit me so hard if I wasn't sick, but I have been, and have 5 1/2 days left of medicine to take.

A long shift

We were up all shift with maybe a 30 minute nap around 330am. The only call of interest was a cardiac arrest, but I'm not sure if there will be a case in this one so I'm going to keep it to myself for now.

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The picture was taken shortly after arriving onscene under part of an automatic mutual aid agreement. We were dispatched around 0520. I had reported to command to let him know we were there if needed, and was walking back to my truck to get my jacket when I took this. The first engine onscene found it with the back porch fully involved and flames coming out of the corner of the roof. By the time they were ready to make entry, the whole roof lit off and command declared it a defensive operation (ie...nobody goes in).

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About 0550, the tiller was put into a better position so massive amounts of water could be dumped on the fire from above. When we were released a half hour later, the ladder was still flowing, but the fire was nearly out.

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I came home and played online for a few minutes before crashing into bed. I woke up when my phone rang at 430pm. Nice lil nap if I say so myself.

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PS...I like my paragraphs spaced out, blogger isn't cooperating so you get extra marks to make it cooperate.

Tree on 2 houses and a car

Our first call of the day, shortly after lunch. The house on the left is currently empty. The car suffered some damage from the tree, but the carport took the brunt of the damage. The house on the right only had 1 person home when the tree fell. You can't see it in the picture, but they had a metal roof over the front porch area. We ended up taking the chainsaw and K-12 to the tree and roof, respectively. The front door was the only means of entrance/egress so we had to do something.

Oh yeah...and I was driving the engine...whoohooo!!!!!!!!

I finally made it down to see this handsome guy today. He's doing so good right now. The ferrier wasn't trimming his feet correctly so there's a new(to us) ferrier. He trimmed the toe down a lot and put eggbar shoes on Leo to support and encourage his heels to grow. The other guy had let the toe get long to the point where the heel had slowed growing and since the toe was so long, it forced everything into weird angles. Thankfully, Leo turns 5 this month, since he's young there shouldn't be any permanent damage...I hope.

And in other news, that pit bull that attacked my dog went after a human yesterday while I was at work. The guy's hand was pretty ugly from what I was told. The dog is at the pound right now, and our court date is in 3 weeks.

Currently, the bills from my dog's injuries are totalled over $4,000. I'm not sure how much the ACL surgery will cost. Not that we expect the pit's owner to pay a single penny, it's just the principal of the whole thing right now. He's never once apologized, not for either attack on my 2 dogs, or yesterday. All 3 times his dog was off-leash, and off his property. The 2 most recent times, they didn't know the dog had even escaped.

Dog attacks

One of my dogs was attacked by a pit bull a couple weeks ago. She developed a bad infection (even with antibiotics) and had to have a couple drains placed and become a cone head for a week. Her drains are now out and she's healing great. Next week, we take her back to see if she's good to go to have her torn right ACL repaired. It was also torn during the attack.

Eventually, we plan to take the pit bull's owner to court for vet bills...Well, let me rephrase, if he doesn't skip town we're going to try.


More about this later, I'm at work and duty calls.