Busy Night Shift

I went to bed Tuesday night around 02:00 hours and got up at 07:10 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and got dressed and then grabbed my jacket, suitcase and camera and took them out to the kitchen. My father was still home and my mother said that he called off of work as alot of the roads were flooded over and he had to do damage control. I then got my lunch and Gatorade bottles together. I left the house around 07:28 hours and ran down to Creek Road to look at the flooding and take a few pictures. I then went up to Enders Road at the Camelback Bridge and the water was partially covering the road. I took a few pictures there and then headed on up to Lykens to work. I got there and parked and went inside and put my lunch and Gatorade bottles in the fridge and then clocked in. I then did a quick rig check on 6-3 and then filled out a shift report on the computer and checked a few other things. Then around 10:45 hours the tones went off for a sick person class 1 in Wiconisco Township. Me and Tim got in 6-3 and off we went. When I started 6-3 up, the lights in the back flicked on and off and the battery indicator showed it was low. We got to the scene and I put the truck in high idle and then we got the guy loaded up and headed on down to Holy Spirit Hospital. On the way down, the battery level kept getting lower and I started turning off stuff. I turned off the siren and unplugged the charger for the laptop. Meanwhile, Tim had turned off the lights in the back to save power. I also turned off the heat and anything else that would feed off the batteries that were not essential to us. The only thing that really stayed on were the radios and the power to the back for the oxygen. As I made the turn onto the bridge to head over to Holy Spirit, I lost the gagues on the dash. When we got to Holy Spirit, I went through and parked in one of the slots away from the entracne to the ER so I could leave the truck running in high idle while we took the guy inside. After we moved him over, I made up the stretcher and then cleaned the back of the ambulance up. Once we got what we needed we went to leave. I pushed in the brake so I could put the truck in reverse, and the truck died. I called Steve and told him that we were sitting at Holy with a dead truck. I told him I was going to try and get one of the 3 ambulance that were there to give us a jump. I talked to the crew from Lower Allen and they jump started us and we headed on back. Tim called Steve and told him he thought it was the alternator going bed and Steve told us to come to the Eville station. We got there and Steve was not there at the moment. So I took the "D" Cylinder in and replaced that and then put the supplies that had come in away and then got supplies to take back up to Lykens. Steve then showed up and we moved all of the gear off of 6-3 and put it on 6-1. He said we were taking 6-3 up to Swab's so they could look at it. I drove 6-3 up there and Steve and Tim came in 6-1. We got there and I parked it outside of the bay and the guys came out to talk to Steve and while we were talking, the truck died again. At that point the tones went off for a call in Williamstown. I jumped in 6-1 and off we went. We got there and 24-1 was already there. Jim and Tommy ended up coming up to take the call so me and Tim could get 6-5 back in service. So we picked up 6-5 at Thompson's and took it back to the Lykens station and got the gear moved over. We then ran up to Don's so Tim could get something to eat for lunch. Once we got back we both ate lunch while we finished watching Season Two of Emergency. I then put in Season 1 and we started to watch the 2-hour pilot movie. Then around 18:30 hours, the tones went off for a call in Tower City Borough. We got in 6-5 and off we went. Ambulance 959 pulled up at the same time that we did. We helped them loaded the lady up and then Tim went with them to Lebanon Good Sam. I ran back down to Lykens and stopped at Dairy Queen and got something to eat for dinner. While I was there, around 20:14 hours, the tones went off for a call in Rush Township. 24-1 ended up being the BLS and Fortney and Tommy took that call. I then left around 20:10 hours and headed back up to Tower City to pick up Tim. Once up there I helped him move the gear back over and then we headed back to the Lykens station. Once back I helped him restock and then he ate dinner and we finished watching the pilot moive. About 10 minutes later, the tones went off for a call in Upper Paxton Township. We started to get up and get our boots on, but then Fortney and Tommy went responding from outside of Williamstown and took the call. We then watched another episode and I started to watch another one while Tim started to work on his charts. We were sitting there when we heard 24 get dispatched to an accident with injuries. I was thinking of getting up and getting my boots on incase they called us, but deciced not to. I should have. Around 23:30 hours the tones went off for us to assist 24 on the scene of the accident. We got up there and I loaded Tim's gear into 24-1 and then got in the back to help with anything and then they headed on down to Hershey Medical Center. I took some pictures of the accident scene and then headed on back to Lykens. Once there I stopped the DVD and took it out and put it away and then ran down to Shell in Eville and got fuel. I then headed on back up to the Lykens station. I was back in the station for maybe 5 minutes when the tones went off for an unresponsive person in Gratz Borough. About 4 minutes later, O'Neal called up and asked me if Tim was back yet. I told him no that he had just transported about 30 to 45 minutes ago. O'Neal was like, try an hour ago. I said so, he is not back yet. Then he asked me if I was going to head up to Gratz and I said no, as I was going to leave in a few minutes to head back up to Williamstown to get Tim. They took that call and I sat on the couch until Tim called me and told me that they were on their way back. I then got in 6-5 and headed up to 24's station. I got there and waited for them to get back. I nodded off a few times and woke up and then would nod off again. I woke up then when they pulled in. Just before they pulled in, the tones went off for ALS to head to Tremont for a call. As I got out of 6-5 to help move gear, the tones went off again and Schuylkill County was placing us in service. I helped move the gear over and then talked to Chris and then we left and headed back to the Lykens station. We got back and I helped Tim restock. Just as we had finished restocking, the tones went off again around 02:15 hours for ALS to Tremont. We got back in 6-5 and off we went. Schuylkill County called us then while we were enroute and said they had no response out of the BLS company and asked us if we would be able to handle and we said yes. We got there and got the guy loaded up and then took him up to Pottsville Good Sam. After we got what we needed, we headed on back. We stopped at Sheetz got Tim could get coffee and I could get something to drink and munch on. We then headed on back. We got back in station around 05:45 hours. I finally laid down on the couch around 06:00 hours. The tones went off again around 07:10 hours I am going to say for us to handle a call in Halifax Township, due to 13-1 already being on a call. 6-3 handled that one. I reset the pager and went back to sleep. I woke up around 07:58 horus when Jim came in. I got up, got my stuff back on my belt and then got my boots on. I put my pillow away and then got my stuff out of the truck and then clocked out and headed on home. I stopped at he Eville station and put in my time card and then checked my emails and then I left and headed on home. Once at home I changed into my pj's and went back to bed to get some sleep. I woke up this afternoon around 16:30 hours. I got up and took a shower and then changed into my uniform and then ate dinner while I watched MASH on TV. I found out that I missed two fire calls this morning. Apparently we got dispatched ay 06:26 hours on the 29-1 Box for Smoke in a Structure. The Engine got out on that one, but we got cancelled. County then turned around and dispatched us in place of Company 29 to the base of Peters Mountain for an accident with injuries. I am now getting ready to hit the old email and surf the net. I will be on late tonight so if any sexy ladies want to talk to me, just give me a buzz.