Pretty quick into the George Floyd thing I learned that a first responder— a paramedic like me— stood there and filmed the entire interaction. Her iPh...
I didn’t think a whole lot about having PTSD until my wife started telling me stories about things I did at night while I was asleep.
- Â She told me ...
I got out of the service and got my law degree. I didn’t serve long— just enough to pay for school. Because of that, though, and because my family is ...
I was a nurse back in 2020– during the pandemic.
At first, I was scared and overwhelmed about an unknown virus coming from China. Nobody knew anythin...
We received a call to a house fire. Shortly after arriving, we heard there was a strong likelihood someone might still be inside.
“He’s probably in t...
I’m a paramedic. I’ve been called to numerous homes when an elderly patient suffers a heart attack or seems to be having a stroke. I always do the bes...
I received a 9-1-1 call that caught me off guard— in a way none of the others ever had.
It was a co-worker’s family calling. His brother-in-law was o...
I was at my daughter’s college graduation. It was a 2-year community college— the kind where they do a lot of vocational training.
I found myself spe...
It was Christmas Day, a few years into being a firefighter.
I had some seniority at the station, so I wasn’t scheduled to work that day. But, I had a...
I joined the State Highway Patrol while I was in my mid-twenties. Real fast, I picked up special code words and nicknames the guys had for various sit...
I got called on a “domestic.” We jumped into the ambulance and headed that way.
It was rural— about 30 minutes outside town. That meant two things…
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We received a call about a single car motor vehicle accident. Car ran off the road and towards a small pond.
Somebody phoned it in— no telling how lo...
