New Years Eve

[WolfmanHarris]

This year I was out in the bay at the hospital on the phone when the PA asked for all available staff to Trauma 2. Since I hadn't heard a truck book on with anything interesting I wandered over to see what was going on. Pulled back the curtain and was handed a champagne glass full of sparkling juice. A table cloth had been placed over the bed and they had a great spread of meatballs, meat and cheese plate, veggies and dip, cake, cheese ball, brie, etc. The crews and hospital staff counted down the new year together.

It was one of the weirdest, best and worst nights all at once.

I got to know the nurses better, had some great laughs, ate some great food and saw some of the funniest HBD calls I've ever seen.

Unfortunately I rang out 2009 with an 18y/o M, only seriously injured pt. in a two vehicle MVC on a country road. Car had slid over the centre line on ice and was t-boned by a pick-up; four feet of intrusion. Kid was messed up and after helping work on him in the trauma room we took the transfer to the trauma centre. Five and a half hours from start to finish and not a single place to get coffee afterwards and sent out on a BS drunk call (BS b/c he signed out AMA before I'd even started my ACR) without any time to defuse.

My toast at midnight:

"May 2010 start a hell of a lot better then it ended."

[Dustdevil]

I spent this New Years Eve with a cop buddy of mine and his family. About two minutes after midnight, the first run of the year was dispatched to EMS, and lo and behold, it was a shooting. We were cheering and toasting to what appeared to be an omen for the year!

[tniuqs]

Ah war stories ...

One year ~ 0100 on new years day/night, it doesn't really matter in the Arctic as it is dark all winter.

I went to the "outside bathroom" to walk right into a Polar Bear nose to nose in a blizzard, very sadly without a shotgun in hand, the run and weave pattern rapidly implemented and thanks to a parked truck with an open door it was not my last New Years.

btw Polar Bears have awesome camo pattern, very effective.

Long story short I didn't need the bathroom after that, just a change of clothing .

cheers

[HERBIE1]

I spent this New Years Eve with a cop buddy of mine and his family. About two minutes after midnight, the first run of the year was dispatched to EMS, and lo and behold, it was a shooting. We were cheering and toasting to what appeared to be an omen for the year!

On NYE, for all those stuck working, there is an annual informal contest to see who could get the first shooting of the new year. Last year I was working and it was 015- we received a call for 2 people shot. I thought for sure we had the winner. Nope. 15 minutes into the new year and ours was already the 6th GSW victim.

Gotta love the ghettos...

[Richard B the EMT]

I just remembered something.

Call number one, as in 0001, for January 1, 2000, in New York City, went to a unit on my radio frequency, Queens East, for an unconcious. Unfortunately, the responding unit "gave it back" as a "DOA, left with PD onscene".

[fireflymedic]

Ah war stories ...

One year ~ 0100 on new years day/night, it doesn't really matter in the Arctic as it is dark all winter.

I went to the "outside bathroom" to walk right into a Polar Bear nose to nose in a blizzard, very sadly without a shotgun in hand, the run and weave pattern rapidly implemented and thanks to a parked truck with an open door it was not my last New Years.

btw Polar Bears have awesome camo pattern, very effective.

Long story short I didn't need the bathroom after that, just a change of clothing .

cheers

Was this what you needed squint ? hehe - you prolly scared the poor polar bear as much as he scared you !

[island emt]

On NYE, for all those stuck working, there is an annual informal contest to see who could get the first shooting of the new year. Last year I was working and it was 015- we received a call for 2 people shot. I thought for sure we had the winner. Nope. 15 minutes into the new year and ours was already the 6th GSW victim.

Gotta love the ghettos...

Years ago in the mid 80's I was working in a lovely inner city hood. The inhabitants developed a new years celebration habit of firing their new UZI's and other heavy handguns up in the air. Needless to say when lead goes up , it must come down. We had all our crews park under the highway overpasses until 0015 and then we ventured out to respond to all the "Gunshot" calls" One year we brought in 26 victims of falling lead before 1 AM.

Oh how I don't miss working there!