Got paged as I was making breakfast this morning, and ran out the door. (Amazingly enough, Dog didn't eat the sausage I left on the stove; sometimes I do love our dog!)
This call was a medical assist. EMTs can call for fire company assistance for a couple different reasons (that I know of, anyway): forced entry and help with a patient. Today's call was for help getting a patient to the ambulance.
A little bit of background here. Today, we have medical regulations known as HIPAA. From what little I understand about it, HIPAA does various things, but one of the big ones (from an emergency services perspective, as well as from a computer programmer's perspective) is to try to ensure patient confidentiality. (I won't launch into a soapbox about what a nuisance idea personal privacy has become; just assume I'm not fond of it.)
Anyway, because of HIPAA, I'm pretty sure that I can't tell you much more than I already have about this morning's call. But rest assured that the two fit, robust (no sarcasm here) male EMTs did actually need the assistance of 4-5 firefighters to complete this call.
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