Most awkward/weird place for a call?

[danieljones87]

Where is the most awkward or weird place you have received a call?

Don't pretend it hasn't happened! I'm sure all you old-timers have a ton of them.

[THE_DITCH_DOCTOR]

Back room of an adult bookstore. 'Nuf said.

I've also walked in on a call for "man down" at a hotel to find a very beautiful naked woman (who I assume was not his wife ) doing CPR on a guy. Not awkward or weird, but I still wish we had had a camera for that one.

[Ridryder 911]

As I have posted before,

I have worked a code in a real tepee.. during a funeral (from a previous code that did not do so well) & yes they had the deceased on the alter.

Worked several calls in houses of repute. Funny how all their names was John...hmmmm?

Code in a Rodeo Arena with Bull still very pissed off at every body.

Worked a double shooting at "Elmwoods Do-it-to-Death-Cafe".. yes, that was the real name of the knife & gun club bar.

At a prominent Christian University in the women's dorm.. the poor thing fell from the bottom bunk bed. The patient & her roomies had just been to Victoria's Secret.. thought I 'll never get the fireman outta-there..

Those are some of the top of my head

Be safe,

Ridryder 911

[Richard B the EMT]

I wasn't on this one, but everyone EMS involved was from my "house".

47Boy3 (BLS) and 47Willie3 (ALS) get called to the Coast Guard Station for a Cardiac Arrest, but on arrival are told to Grab gear, and get onto an NYPD Harbor Patrol Launch. Seems someone having a problem on an ocean liner that just left New York harbor.

After a half hour boat trip, the 4 EMS crewmen, and at least one of the Harbor Patrolmen, climb up a ship's ladder, on a liner that is still underway, about 5 stories up just to get into the ship. They were escorted to the ship's infirmary, where they are shown a patient suffering from a cardiac condition. The decision was made to request a Medivac.

An NYPD Aviation chopper, due to not enough space to land, has to send down the cable, and pull up both the patient, in a stokes basket, and then one of the 2 paramedics (photos are still posted on the "house" walls), and transported them to a hospital in New Jersey.

The other 3 EMS crewmen, the NYPD Harbor Patrolman, and the patient's wife, had to climb back down to the Harbor Launch, and then go to a dock somewhere near the NJ hospital to drop off the wife, and then return the EMS guys to the Rockaway USCG Station, where the Paramedic who didn't go into the helo picked up the ambulance, went across the bridge to Brooklyn and the NYPD Aviation base, and picked up his partner.

This pretty much took up the entire 8 hours of the 2 crew's tour.

Thinking back on this, over 2 years later, I just realized, the Paramedic who flew is a licensed pilot, and the other a former "Squid" (member of the US Navy) who enjoyed the time on the PD launch. Both are now Lieutenants, one from just after the described incident, and the other is only days out of "Lieutenant's School".

[Guest]

self concious-female at a day spa...that was wide enough to fit between the door and the stairs that she fell down...trying to keep her modest...it was hard!!!

[danieljones87]

LMAO!!! I hate the old lady in the bathroom calls.

[Woody76559]

Can't believe y'all haven't had the stripper twisting her ankle on the 8 inch stiletto heels while she was giving a lap dance. That was fun night!

[Guest]

hope you had some dollar bills ha ha ha ha...had to be an interesting call...i would have loved to been there...

[Richard B the EMT]

Try this one on for size:

An elderly woman was found unconscious in an empty bathtub, head resting below a head sized hole in the tiles of the wall, her knees draped over the edge of the tub, and her body seems to be red all over.

WTF?

Home care attendant doesn't speak much if any English (Russian speaker?).

Due to the tiny space in the bathroom, we got her out of the room with a carry chair, with the Lieutenant, who is a Paramedic, along on the call holding stabilization of the neck and spine. We then did a backboard immobilization, and make the determination that she fell backwards into the tub, put the back of her head through the wall, and got over 70 percent 1st and 2nd degree burns to her thighs, torso, and chest, from the hot water in the tub, which the home care attendant had drained, prior to our arrival.

Again, due to space considerations, we had to tilt the backboard on the wheeled stretcher to fit into the tiny elevator (we were on the 20th floor, by the way), which took several minutes. When we got downstairs, we discovered one of our Paramedic teams on scene, who had been called by the Lieutenant. Seems while checking the apartment while we struggled to get into the elevator, he had found meds for diabetes, and wanted the medics to start IV therapy.

We ended up, with ALS established, and aboard my ambulance, transporting to the nearest Trauma AND Burn Center, which was in Nassau County, outside of New York City!

We still don't know if the diabetes caused her to initially pass out and fall, or if she slipped, hit her head, and went unconscious.

[Timmy]

Logrolling a fat pig farmer patients onto the spinebord in a pig pen at the local agricultural show.

He tried climbing the fence and fell knocking him self out when he hit the poll with his head.

Problem... Couldn’t find the spinebord, when we rolled him onto it, it sunk in the muck and other waste products lol. Pigs were still in the pen to... Everyone found it pretty funny except me and my partner who smelt lol... The fun at the show ay! But hey nothin rescue cant fix.

Had to climb up the fieriest wheel at the same show to an asthmatic patient. Fieriest wheel was jammed... Great timing!