Sunday Routine?

Morning started off like most others at 31's.  Came in, got my gear on the rig, checked over the EMS equipment and made sure everything else on the engine was squared away.  Just a normal start to the day. 

Having about 16 months out in the field now, I have gotten a good feel for a typical day at 31's.  A few runs during the day, and almost one after midnight.  But every once in a while, the locals in Lincoln Heights surprises me.  And yesterday was one of those days.

We were doing it!  We took a couple runs before the big one came in.  And I wish I meant big one as a large inferno.  Nope.  Call comes in as a "fell now stuck in porch."  Upon arrival, we find an extremely large man with a good cut to his leg...stuck.  We needed some help because there was no way we could handle this guy alone.  Turned into a HURT and Bariatric Response.  Was pretty interesting.  12's crew came in and took care of business.  They were able to extract him from the rotten porch and with the help of 10-12 guys, used a modified 4x8 to carry him to the cot.  It was an impressive run to have that good of coordination between everyone involved.

After that, we spent the afternoon helping some other folks out.  Babysat a guy who smoked some K2, but before we got back to 31's, dispatched sent us to a...wait for it....yep, a house fire on 25th and Lincoln.  Sweet!  We saddled up and flew down the avenue to supply Engine 23's.  Took a 2nd line off but didn't do anything with it.  We went up to the 2nd floor and pulled some walls.  The funny thing about this run is that dispatch stated there were multiple callers and person/people jumping from the second floor.  I saw the guy that jumped.  Wow.  He looked shitfaced.  And as I suspected, I found out he was.  My uneducated guess is that he fell asleep smoking on the couch.  Oh well.

The best part?  The night didn't even start yet.  Took a few more and then hit the pillow around 11pm.  Got a few hours of sleep.  Until we met Mickey.  After her, we got back to back garage fires off of 6th street.  Neither one was special, both fairly small.  Anyway, we finally got back to quarters and in bed shortly before 5am.

Like they told me coming out of the academy.  "31's, you'll see a little bit of everything."  Yesterday, we certainly did.  Looking forward to what's next.  Hopefully not another 700lb plus man though.

Byrge