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Brotherlog63

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  1. I wear two pairs. 5.11 Tactical Sleet & 5.11 tactical XPRT Both are awesome, the XPRTs are absolutly amazing!!!
  2. This was one of the parts of this job i was so worried about when i started. I have Seen many dead people and i wouldnt doubt that i will see another in the next week. The first is always the hardest. i can still remember the scene. in fact i can remember all of the dead people that i have seen. it is almost as there are picture just burned in my mind. I cried for a while after seeing my first dead person. i most definately had nightmares and for a long time too. I will be the first to admit that after some calls you have to break down and cry or call a loved one to vent about what you have just seen. does it get easier? Yes it does. it almost becomes second nature. it jsut doents change the fact that we are all human and that the smell always seems to linger with the mental images. sometimes a joke or too may help to lighten the mood. but somethings jst dont go away. about a month ago i resonded to a possible suicidal attempt with a male stiign on the edge of a 15 story building. we arrived on location to set up at the staging area. our response couldnt have been more than five minutes. we set up all our gear next to the police sargent and look to the southeast corner of the building where you could see a male sitting on the roof with his feet hanging over the edge. he was swinging them like there was nothign wrong. like a giddy school-kid. our city police dpet was climbing the fire escape to speak with him. they were about half way up. our fire dept had an engine on location. the guy began to slowly inch foreward towards the ledge. he never uttered a word. he just slid to the edge and let himself fall. ill never forget watching that man fall to the ground. the earsplitting sound when he hit the ground. the way his body bounced when it hit the parking lot. i will never forget any of that scene. walking with much haste while thinking "what could i even do for him at this point". knowing that there was nothing that i can do was and still is the hardrest part of that call. we are supposed to be there to help people or as the public see us to "save people". but when it comes down too it, there was nothing anybody can do. even a month later, i still have to live with the horror that i whitnessed that day. i have to relive every grusome and disgusting murder scene, every stabbing, every shooting, every serious trauma i have ever been on. there are days where i sit and wonder how i do it. how is it that i can seem so normal on the outside? when it comes down too it, we as providers to the people involved in the worst events of their lives need to come together to support eachother in our times of need. talking with eachother and learnign coping skills from co-workers is one of the best ways to help. supressing the events never helps anything. the more that you sit and think about what happened, the more it eats at you. sometimes even counsiling or de-briefing helps. we as providers shouldnt be afraid to speak out for help. it is always there in one form or another. my apologizies for the long post. i do hope that this opens a window into the horrors that we in this buisness deal with everyday. - Brotherlog63
  3. Hello There Everyone! My name is Andrew. I am an EMT-B In NYS. I've been in this business for Four years (I'm Most likely a baby in some of your eyes), three as a certified EMT. I Work in a very, very high call volume (total near 90,000 calls per year for the company). I look foreward to interacting and getting to know Y'all. -Brotherlog63 (If you come to work and dont learn something new, you should most likely rethink what you are doing or how you are acting.)
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