Too stupid to live, too lucky to die
I have got to start putting a camera back in my turnout gear.
We rolled out last night on a single vehicle AAPI.
We rolled up on the remains of a red 1998 Camaro that was crushed like a beer can and bent out of shape.
The squad was working on a bloody guy and the LT, CPT and I helped get the guy strapped down to a backboard,onto a gurney and into the bus. His eyes were a little funny and he had blod on his abdomen, legs and one arm. This was one of the rare occassions when as a fireman I have to wear rubber gloves, as the bloody legs were right next to my handholds.
I did manage to get a closer look at the guy. 24-26 years old. Wife beater top, gangster pants half off his ass and ahandful of rings. The blood seemed to be mostly a good small cut on his shin and right arm. Other than that, he looked ok.
We asked if he was travelling alone and he said he couldn't remember. Great. We called the -9 truck to come up from where it was blocking traffic and got a thermal imaging camera. The LT and I then started scanning both side of the road and the fields beyond. When we were near the car we spotted a heat signature in the woods about 50-60 feet into the woods and underbrush. The LT, me, an EMT and a Trooper waded in to investigate and discovered the impact had burled a large (3x2) stereo speaker from the kids car into the woods!
We completed our scan and secured the scene. Now I got a chance to take a good look at the car. The whole front end was collapsed to the firewall. Drivers door was crumpled into the vehicle. All the glass was gone in all the windows. The back of the vehicle was actually bent upward giving the car a sort of banana shape.
What caused the accident? Hard to say. Could have been the light rain on the road, but I'm more inclined to think it was related to the lastic bag of pills the cops found. When the squad showed up they said they saw the kid staggering out ofn the woods after having flung something away.
One thing that was interesting was that after the kid was transported, the cops found his cell phone on the ground next to the vehicle. They picked it up and started searching through it to see if he had been on the phone at the time of the accident. Wouldn't they need a warrant for that? Or would the argument be that they were searching through it to see who it belonged to?
We rolled out last night on a single vehicle AAPI.
We rolled up on the remains of a red 1998 Camaro that was crushed like a beer can and bent out of shape.
The squad was working on a bloody guy and the LT, CPT and I helped get the guy strapped down to a backboard,onto a gurney and into the bus. His eyes were a little funny and he had blod on his abdomen, legs and one arm. This was one of the rare occassions when as a fireman I have to wear rubber gloves, as the bloody legs were right next to my handholds.
I did manage to get a closer look at the guy. 24-26 years old. Wife beater top, gangster pants half off his ass and ahandful of rings. The blood seemed to be mostly a good small cut on his shin and right arm. Other than that, he looked ok.
We asked if he was travelling alone and he said he couldn't remember. Great. We called the -9 truck to come up from where it was blocking traffic and got a thermal imaging camera. The LT and I then started scanning both side of the road and the fields beyond. When we were near the car we spotted a heat signature in the woods about 50-60 feet into the woods and underbrush. The LT, me, an EMT and a Trooper waded in to investigate and discovered the impact had burled a large (3x2) stereo speaker from the kids car into the woods!
We completed our scan and secured the scene. Now I got a chance to take a good look at the car. The whole front end was collapsed to the firewall. Drivers door was crumpled into the vehicle. All the glass was gone in all the windows. The back of the vehicle was actually bent upward giving the car a sort of banana shape.
What caused the accident? Hard to say. Could have been the light rain on the road, but I'm more inclined to think it was related to the lastic bag of pills the cops found. When the squad showed up they said they saw the kid staggering out ofn the woods after having flung something away.
One thing that was interesting was that after the kid was transported, the cops found his cell phone on the ground next to the vehicle. They picked it up and started searching through it to see if he had been on the phone at the time of the accident. Wouldn't they need a warrant for that? Or would the argument be that they were searching through it to see who it belonged to?