Seldom do we have any problems as you mentioned. Perhaps its because I'm also the village idiot, and tipping on the edge. I'm very outspoken on smoking, drinking, drugs, life jackets and helmets, but never when someone is down because of their habbits. Drunks often hinder our responce units, and we deal with them red neck style sometimes. Most everyone knows me, probably because my picture is in almost every post office in the USA.
I'm blessed with a wonderful comunity, we often must forgive a few because they simply do not understand. So many times we don't have the man power to get family members away so we feel bad about that. In a small comunity we have issues with folks wanting to know what happened. Just as often the local coffee shop members can fill me in on the details of a accident etc. Got to wonder if telling the story wrong will make me offer a different story. As you know ---NO CAN DO!
I'm not totaly convinced we are heading in the right dirrection with our emergency teams. Our government simply wants all forms filled out, and if we get enough time we can also work on a patient. Most of all this is probably to create jobs for government workers. When the young snot nose kids come in to examine our records I sometimes get the opertunity to explain why certian forms are not completed. As you know from past posts the good Lord never gave me the sence to shut up. Ain't had much school housin, seldom tactfull---but I sure as heck get my point across. When the snot nose inspectors leave you can usualy notice they lost the chip on their shoulder.
Had a deal a couple years ago -guy with heart attack on top of water tower while checking paint. I'm old, never wore a saftey harness in my life and was chewed out for not doing so this time. There wasn't a harness at the site, and no one had a idea where there was one stored. Do the math! After a dozen butt chewings, or suggestions on what must be done next time, I calmly mowed them down below knee level with all the saftey wrong doings by everyone on the ground. Lets just say that a saftey harness wasn't quite as big a deal as they had first thought.
No I'm not this big butt head that I'm implying, actualy a very friendly person who just plain has to inject common sence. You see that many times with new cops in our home town that think they must inforce the law just because it is on the books. Once they inform me that I broke the law, I tell them where they can put the law book, and to shut the-----up! Or If you are going to be here you best assist or get the he11 out of our way. I will have Andy take away your bullet Barney if you don't calm down --works wonders also. After a few times they will be more than happy to assist in any way they can.
I have three boys, all three are firemen in different towns except the youngest that is on our home town team till he starts college this next few weeks. The older two both have offered words of how do you manage both, fire and EMS as it seems to be alot of work. I told them both they just haven't got enough thank you's yet to understand.
We are in a world of hurt the last few years as most jobs have left our small town, the businesses that are here are run by older folks till they retire. So daytime emergency means, no one to help, and I don't see it getting any better. Yet I have no answers to the problem, or can I imagine the next ten years.
If you watch the news you no doubt heard of a town just up the road that Imigration officers took the largest number of non English speaking folks away from the packing house pay roll. The non English speaking has indeed created alot of problems for us red necks that figured everyone spoke English up to a few years ago.
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