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There's a wish I send into the universe when fire trucks or ambulances go by, for the people they will be helping: May their day get better soon.
I find the perspective useful. When I think about the sort of day that person is having, and what that entails, and suddenly my day is going fairly well. I am not a person needing emergency vehicles.
Where I live is very near a fire station. Anytime the fire trucks go North on a call they go through the intersection nearest the house, so I mutter my prayer often. A few blocks the other direction is a street that acts as a North-South thoroughfare. Most often I hear police cars on that road, always headed South. (I am less consistent about my wish when it's police cars. I hope they are going to help but they could just be breaking up a party at UofL.)
Last night there was the third siren, an ambulance, taking the route the police cars often take. And it was not just sirens on but going full out, every possible noise maker it had making noise, the horn being blared at every cross street so it could rush through. It's not a good sign when ambulances are in that much of a hurry. It was headed away from where all the hospitals and emergency rooms are clustered and I never heard it return. At least not with its sirens on. I am taking comfort in the fact that the quickest route to any hospital would be via the freeway, which is far enough away I wouldn't hear it.
Whoever needed their help, I hope the ambulance got there in time. I hope their night got better soon.
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A little later some police cars followed it, two of them, so whatever it is involved multiple people but didn't need the police to clear the scene before the medical personnel could enter. A car accident, maybe?
I find the perspective useful. When I think about the sort of day that person is having, and what that entails, and suddenly my day is going fairly well. I am not a person needing emergency vehicles.
Where I live is very near a fire station. Anytime the fire trucks go North on a call they go through the intersection nearest the house, so I mutter my prayer often. A few blocks the other direction is a street that acts as a North-South thoroughfare. Most often I hear police cars on that road, always headed South. (I am less consistent about my wish when it's police cars. I hope they are going to help but they could just be breaking up a party at UofL.)
Last night there was the third siren, an ambulance, taking the route the police cars often take. And it was not just sirens on but going full out, every possible noise maker it had making noise, the horn being blared at every cross street so it could rush through. It's not a good sign when ambulances are in that much of a hurry. It was headed away from where all the hospitals and emergency rooms are clustered and I never heard it return. At least not with its sirens on. I am taking comfort in the fact that the quickest route to any hospital would be via the freeway, which is far enough away I wouldn't hear it.
Whoever needed their help, I hope the ambulance got there in time. I hope their night got better soon.
__________
A little later some police cars followed it, two of them, so whatever it is involved multiple people but didn't need the police to clear the scene before the medical personnel could enter. A car accident, maybe?