Author Topic: A hero?! (Read 5386 times)

tifreak · « **on:** January 09, 2006, 06:51:00 am »

Well, on Saturday morning, I was dispatched out to recover a car that had been in a ditch full of water for about 40 minutes. It took me 10 minutes to get dressed and drive the truck to the location, and it was completely submerged, with the wheels barely sticking out of the water. I got to talking with the police, they said that the person was still in there, and at 50 minutes, they already assumed that the driver was dead.

The Ambulance people also assumed this, and told us to wait for the divers, but we told them that we have a contract with the police to clean up the scene of an accident as fast as we are able to. So I climed down a ladder that the Fire dept had to the vehicle (The ditch, when about half ful, is about 12 foot deep) and hooked on to the car, which was upside down. We got the vehicle half way out of the ditch, when we noticed that the occupant was alive, just really, really cold.we got the car rolled over about half way out and they pulled the man out.

My dad (who also delivers newspapers) saw that I made it in the paper's article.

Yay me!! lol

Once i get a copy of the paper, I will see about postin the article... I also have a pic of the car to post, once I get to my laptop...

Spellshaper · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2006, 07:05:00 am »

Congrats for getting in the newspapers!

I bet that was a thrilling experience... and I

tifreak · « **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2006, 07:09:00 am »

Yeah, but he is lucky that the car did not completely fill full of water... It had a hole in the windshield, and one of the side windows was blown out...

rivereye · « **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2006, 07:16:00 am »

Also, your body does some shutting down when you are really cold, so you could survive for a long time without oxygen

tifreak · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2006, 07:23:00 am »

Yeah, but this guy was still consious.

All the paramedics did was warm him up and send him home, so nothing was shut down that they could see.

BCTurk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2006, 07:58:00 am »

Hmm, sounds like my "vacation" to Peru, 'cept I wasn't in a car or a ditch

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dysfunction · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2006, 08:05:00 am »

That's right, I remember yuou posting something before about how you drove a tow truck. My next-door neighbors own Florence Towing, we always hear their big truck pulling out at odd hours of the night...
I know how these kinds of situatiions feel, as a lifeguard I've had to deal with a number of emergency situations (though thankfully in the nearly 4 years I've been a lifeguard I've never had to go in after anyone). It's not fun while its happening, but you do get a sense of being important to someone.

spengo · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2006, 01:28:00 pm »

Someone posted this in irc one time: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/carcrash01.asp

The dude getting owned by the rolling car in the movie survived. Pretty crazy how hardy the human race can be, eh?

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2006, 02:17:00 pm »

wow scary i hope the victim is well now

solitaire710 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2006, 04:47:00 pm »

Very nice work

:ph43r:

Liazon · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2006, 05:04:00 pm »

Wow Kev! Really nice work.

Author Topic: A hero?! (Read 5386 times)

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