Oh god...the excitement!
So...a few days ago...at work...at about 5:30 a.m. these 2 campers came in to call an ambulance. They were camping at a backcountry site that is an hour hike from anywhere you can drive to at the top of a mountain. One of their friends was having difficulty breathing and urinating and running a high fever. They called the ambulance which was followed by me calling our On-call manager, Doug and waking him up. He comes and takes down some of their information and says we need to wake up the parks manager, Gord. After attempting to wake gord up via telephone for about 10 minutes, security gets sent over there to wake him up. They decide they're going to assemble a team and hike up with the 2 girls to bring the sick one down. But they have to wait for the ambulance to get here...which takes 45 minutes out of hope. The ambulance gets here at 6:23 a.m. They then call in Search & Rescue out of hope...which takes another 45 minutes. They arrive...and after conferring with each other, they decide to call in a helicopter. Phone calls are made and received for a while...then at 7:30 when I was off work, the ETA on the helicopter was 35 minutes. I go home and one of my housemates is up already so I unload the whole shadoodle on her...I was super stressed at this point. We decide to go for breakfast so we'll be at the lodge when the helicopter lands in the parking lot. We go for breakfast...and Marcel...this buy I've been hanging out with but started avoiding once it got too intense was cooking breakfast...I get my breakfast and there's 2 strawberries on it laid out to shape a heart...ugh...too stressed...didn't want to have to worry about another thing...bleh..
Anyway...finish breakfast and go outside to see if the helicopter's there yet...it wasn't so we went and talked to Les, the janitor who they'd set up on the street to stop traffic trying to turn into the lodge. We go get him a coffee because we're nice like that...Helicopter comes in shorty after that and it was less exciting than any of us had hoped. Then the paramedics, search and rescue and helicopter guys talk for a while...and about 10-15 minutes later the helicopter took off to go get the girl from buckhorn.
Me and kim decide to go get coffee for all the search and rescue guys and paramedics still waiting at the lodge.
Turns out the girl had like...a bladder infection or something...how lame.
Anyway...finish breakfast and go outside to see if the helicopter's there yet...it wasn't so we went and talked to Les, the janitor who they'd set up on the street to stop traffic trying to turn into the lodge. We go get him a coffee because we're nice like that...Helicopter comes in shorty after that and it was less exciting than any of us had hoped. Then the paramedics, search and rescue and helicopter guys talk for a while...and about 10-15 minutes later the helicopter took off to go get the girl from buckhorn.
Me and kim decide to go get coffee for all the search and rescue guys and paramedics still waiting at the lodge.
Turns out the girl had like...a bladder infection or something...how lame.