Rush Hour Multi-Casuality Incident

[stcommodore]

Tuesday Morning, we sat infront of McDonald's contimplating breakfast but before we can enter the store we are dispatched on our last call....

Attention "Squirt 43, Ladder 9, Medic 7" respond to the West Bound Local Expressway for an Accident. Note, any responce to an expressway in the city has the Engine Company for hazzard, etc control and the Ladder as the Safety or Light Duty Extrication and the obvious BLS or ALS unit.

My partner and I respond and arrive first finding a Police Wagon with heavy front end damage that appeared to have struck an empty full sized school bus. Standing outside the wagon are the two officers that look dazed but not seriously injured. My next question to the officers is "do you have anyone in the wagon?" As I heard there answer I walked over to the wagon and looking through the secure doors and see ten prisoners all who have various "complaints." Now the game has changed...My inital report to dispatch was "police wagon vs.bus I'll give further".

I get back on the radio..."be advised I have a occupied police wagon invloved with two officers and ten prisoners dispatch me five more squads and my supervisor." Five additional squads are dispatched with eta's ranging from 5-10min, a fire batallion chief, and the (AM only) EMS Ops Chief responds. Approx three min later my Engine arrives and I give a face to face report with my lieutient, and follow with stanging orders for the incomming ambulances. Anytime the ems supervisor is dispatched the dispatcher determins the trauma centers capacities and relays that.

Approx 5-6min into the incident...Two more squads arrived, we assembled a pile of ten lsb's by the wagon and I have advised the first white hat police officer I see that we'll need at least six escorts when the prisoners are removed and transported.

Approx 1-2min later my EMS Lieutient arrived who I again gave a face to face with, a run down of the incomming squads, and that point was ordered to transport my two patient's.

The ten prisoners are removed from the wagon once adequate police support has arrived, they are ransported with the remaining squads and split between two hospital with other police wagons as escorts. All patient's are stable with only MOI the real concern.

So your thoughts???

[scubanurse]

What is a squirt??

[stcommodore]

What is a squirt??

Engine with articulating boom, usually 50-60ish feet

[Just Plain Ruff]

Engine with articulating boom, usually 50-60ish feet

Damn, who did you piss off to get a -14 rep?

Sure sounds like someone doesn't like you.

[FireMedic65]

Sounds like you handled the situation adequately.

What is a squirt??

This is a "squirt"

fyi, guys... don't google image for "squirt fire truck"