bbqbull
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My wife has taken photos and written a much better story but I have no idea how to post it here.
Last nite we were monitoring the scanner here at home and heard our local fire dept get toned out for a call about 2 miles from our house .........reported elderly male slid off ice covered road and into a creek. Water coming into the car and he said he was cold and hurry.
Told wifey......we can beat the rescue folks by many many minutes due to a whiteout and blowing a good 30 to 40 mph winds.
She said lets go.
I was dressed w/in 30 seconds and throw my leather boots on and grabbed my Carhart jacket and we were out the door.
The car was closer than the driver reported, saw tail lights through the blowing snow, jumped out and ran down the steep creek bank and could see someone behind the wheel.
Didnt have my truck or my first aid kit....chit chit chit.
We both forgot our cellphones, double fark.
I went or slid down the creek bank and slid into the water over my knees pulled myself back out and ran to wifeys car, dug out her tire iron and bashed out the passengers rear window to talk to the driver, he said the water is getting deeper, but he wasnt injured.
Another vehicle stopped, I had asked that fellow to please call 911 and told rescue to expedite and gave the real incident location. Another volunteer firefighter stopped by and he fell into the creek same as me. I pulled him out and then we went with plan B. Another approach!
We finally got more help there and 2 firefighers and me pulled the gentleman out of the icy water and out of his car. We were pulling him up a snot covered sloped ditch, one of the firefighters slid into the creek.
Im lying on the slope with the elderly gentleman on top of me, 2 firefighter pulling on me trying to get up the bank as well.
I thought we all were gonna go back down the bank into the farking creek.
God bless my wife as she helped carry this hypothermic gentleman through knee deep snow wearing her pajamas and jacket, and get him to saftey.
We got the gentleman on a back board and into a 4 door pickup.
Farking ambulance arrived 10 minutes after we got the man in the heated cab of a pickup truck and he should be fine.
Ambulance arrives, we get him onto the cot, loaded into the ambulance.
I talked w/the fire chief and the deputy sherrif and told them what me and wifey did and they thanked me and my frozen wife and our wet asses are now were home, trying to dry out our clothes and we both was soaked to the bone.
But it was a good feeling to us both.
Guess that should make my momma proud, its a definate miracle for that man on Christmas Eve.
I think somebody upstairs told us to go and help, and it dont get no better than that IMHO.
I really needed something other than doing bbq today to make me happy, taking my mind off the loss of mom and actually helping to save another life.
Mike
Last nite we were monitoring the scanner here at home and heard our local fire dept get toned out for a call about 2 miles from our house .........reported elderly male slid off ice covered road and into a creek. Water coming into the car and he said he was cold and hurry.
Told wifey......we can beat the rescue folks by many many minutes due to a whiteout and blowing a good 30 to 40 mph winds.
She said lets go.
I was dressed w/in 30 seconds and throw my leather boots on and grabbed my Carhart jacket and we were out the door.
The car was closer than the driver reported, saw tail lights through the blowing snow, jumped out and ran down the steep creek bank and could see someone behind the wheel.
Didnt have my truck or my first aid kit....chit chit chit.
We both forgot our cellphones, double fark.
I went or slid down the creek bank and slid into the water over my knees pulled myself back out and ran to wifeys car, dug out her tire iron and bashed out the passengers rear window to talk to the driver, he said the water is getting deeper, but he wasnt injured.
Another vehicle stopped, I had asked that fellow to please call 911 and told rescue to expedite and gave the real incident location. Another volunteer firefighter stopped by and he fell into the creek same as me. I pulled him out and then we went with plan B. Another approach!
We finally got more help there and 2 firefighers and me pulled the gentleman out of the icy water and out of his car. We were pulling him up a snot covered sloped ditch, one of the firefighters slid into the creek.
Im lying on the slope with the elderly gentleman on top of me, 2 firefighter pulling on me trying to get up the bank as well.
I thought we all were gonna go back down the bank into the farking creek.
God bless my wife as she helped carry this hypothermic gentleman through knee deep snow wearing her pajamas and jacket, and get him to saftey.
We got the gentleman on a back board and into a 4 door pickup.
Farking ambulance arrived 10 minutes after we got the man in the heated cab of a pickup truck and he should be fine.
Ambulance arrives, we get him onto the cot, loaded into the ambulance.
I talked w/the fire chief and the deputy sherrif and told them what me and wifey did and they thanked me and my frozen wife and our wet asses are now were home, trying to dry out our clothes and we both was soaked to the bone.
But it was a good feeling to us both.
Guess that should make my momma proud, its a definate miracle for that man on Christmas Eve.
I think somebody upstairs told us to go and help, and it dont get no better than that IMHO.
I really needed something other than doing bbq today to make me happy, taking my mind off the loss of mom and actually helping to save another life.
Mike
