A tough call

[kamau_d_lyon]

Usually I find the fire service to be rewarding and while we often are involved in tragedies we reduce their impact on others or at least provide some comfort and aid. This morning that didn’t happen. Just before 1 AM we got a call for a roll-over accident with possible entrapment. As I’m a good distance from the scene it took me about 15

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[kamau_d_lyon]

Finding someone in a heavily wooded area is hard as you point out in this example. I guess the thing that hurts more about this is it's the first time we've been tagged on Facebook by some side line jerk that probably has never seen an accident scene.

Comment on the TV station's FB page
Sorry to say, but the driver does have blame in this! Only seeing as he left the scene and knowing his best friend is there and then not telling ANYONE until hours later...BUT my big issue and where I put a big part of the blame is to emergency personnel. I mean most times when a rollover has happens, the chance that someone has been ejected from the vehicle is pretty high. SOOO, my question is why didn't they scour the area to EVEN SEE if there was someone/something around. Just because there was no one inside the vehicle doesn't mean that no one is there. My first thought would be that the person or people have been ejected from the car. POINT BLANK...THAT SCENE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY SEARCHED BEFORE THE EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LEFT THE SCENE!!! 100 feet is really not that far to search and with all their lights, tools, and such...they might have found him in the first place.

Now to top things off our SOG (think SOP) says a member can not reply to such comments or disclose any information about the incident on pain of being kicked out of the department. So we can't even say that we did as complete a search of the area as possible. I'm not going to loss sleep over it but it still smarts when someone makes it sound like you were completely incompetent.