DUMBEST THING EVER HEARD ON THE RADIO/SCANNER

[Richard B the EMT]

'Zactly!

[Ozzyfudd]

During a busy friday night our communications center used their transmission over ride signal to announce that the local trauma center was closed to all traffic except for trauma. His exact words were: "All units, University is closed to all but trauma. All units please confirm that this message was recieved".

All fifteen units on the street responded: " Unit 1, 2, 3 (whatever the unit number was) copies that University is closed to all "Butt Trauma". Every medic that responded by emphasizing the word butt was written up but it was worth it, truly worth it.

[Ozzyfudd]

While responding to a medical emergency a "lifeguard helicopter" was having trouble finding the scene. The fire department incident commander contacted the helicopter and gave them the following information ( I am paraphrising), we can see you and you should be able to see us shortly, you are between us and the moon.

[firedoc5]

During a busy friday night our communications center used their transmission over ride signal to announce that the local trauma center was closed to all traffic except for trauma. His exact words were: "All units, University is closed to all but trauma. All units please confirm that this message was recieved".

All fifteen units on the street responded: " Unit 1, 2, 3 (whatever the unit number was) copies that University is closed to all "Butt Trauma". Every medic that responded by emphasizing the word butt was written up but it was worth it, truly worth it.

So, Ozz, were you written up along with them? :bootyshake:

[Richard B the EMT]

I had the scanner going today, so I must have missed most of the original exchange, but when you hear a unit say, "Central, we have the situation well in hand, and the weather is BEAUTIFUL!" , I just don't know what to say or think. (The weather was pretty good at that moment, too)

[iMac]

the unsconscious calls that come in as: "unsconscious but breathing" aka: "unconscious buttbreathing".

[firedoc5]

When I was working at a private ambulance we were sitting around playing cards and listening to the scanner of a car chase. We knew they were close. We heard one squad car, "Appoaching 17th & Perkins", almost immediately we heard, "Approaching Perkins & 17th". :shock: Then we heard the brakes right out front. They did miss each other.

[emtsteve13]

Dispatch: Ambulance XYZ respond to RT111 Northbound for a female patient from a vehicle accident, up walking around, bleeding from the head

Ambulance XYZ: Is she conscious?

Best Nursing home story:

Dispatched for an unconscious person. Met by nurse and while escorting us to the room he says the patient was fed lunch "20 minutes go and appeared fine". We enter the room to find the patient sitting up in bed with his back at about a 45 degree angle. The bed has been lowered to the flat position and the patient is in full rigor. Medic with me turns to the nurse (and I really don't know how he kept a straight face) and asks if the patient had had any complaints about the meal.

[Richard B the EMT]

When I was working at a private ambulance we were sitting around playing cards and listening to the scanner of a car chase. We knew they were close. We heard one squad car, "Appoaching 17th & Perkins", almost immediately we heard, "Approaching Perkins & 17th". :shock: Then we heard the brakes right out front. They did miss each other.

On a car chase theme:

NYPD "100 Boy" reported joining a car chase with a Nassau County PD 4th precinct car, which ended in the 100 Eddie sector (near me, of course!). The chase had come completely through the 101 Precinct, undetected, in a congested 5 mile stretch, and gotten through the 100 Adam sector area before 100 Boy saw it.

OK, it was midnight!

[canadian_ghost]

Went to a nursing home to pick up a p/t for a transport to the hospital for a pacemaker appointment. We get inside and after looking around for a while we find out that the patient passed away the night before due to a cardiac problem. We let dispatch know,

"XXX Alpha to Dispatch"

"Dispatch go ahead XXX Alpha"

"XXX Alpha, yeah our patient is dead..."

"-confused voice- Your patient is dead for their pacemaker appointment?"

Doesn't sound to funny, it was more one of those things you would of had to been there to hear the conversation. It was a joke around the station for days.