A Road Full of Shit

I went to bed Thursday night around 03:30 hours and got up Friday morning at 07:10 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and got dressed and then grabbed my digital camera, my bag that had the equipment stickers and my note pad in and my suitcase and took them out to the kitchen. I then packed my lunch and got my Gatorade bottles together and then left the house around 07:30 hours and headed up to Eville to go to work. I stopped at Koppy's and picked up a snack and a newspaper and then headed to the station. When I got there I saw that 6-4 was gone so I knew they were out on a call. I parked and took my stuff inside and clocked in and put my stuff in the fridge. Flipper was already there and he said that there was no medic in Lykens last night so Stutzman came down and him and Yeager were out on a call. He also said that 6-2 had to be at the garage before 09:00 hours. So I took that time to go out and tag everything in the squad, which wasn't alot and Flipper called Tim and told him to come down to the Eville station since Stutzman had to take CPR yesterday. Tim was just backing in when the tones went off for an overdose in Jackson Township. Flipper was just going to take the squad and then my fire pager went off for a cardaic arrest. I told Flipper that it just came over for fire as a code and he told me to grab Tim and take the MICU down. So I walked out and told Tim who said he had to do CPR also and I told him to go say something to Flipper quick, while I got in 6-5. Tim came back out and got in and said to just go. So we went responding and we got there right behind the Engine and as Dave was calling a Signal 12. Well PSP was right behind me and once we told them it was a Signal 12, they took over the scene right away. 13 got there and that was when they found out that the guys wife took some of the sleeping pills also. So Tim ended up going down with 13 to Harrisburg Hospital. The Engine headed on back and that had my dad driving, Jason, Ray, and Schoffstall and Dave came POV and Jean was doing fire police. Dave was going to leave but PSP asked him to stay so he could talk to the other crime scene guy once he got there. I stayed to help the corner with the body. Dave ended up staying until we all left and that was after Tommy, the corner said we could go. My father also came back to help after getting the Engine squared away. I then left and headed down to Sheetz to pick Tim up and then we headed back to the station. Once there the CPR class was already in porcess. I helped Tim restock and then went in and sat down and read the paper while they had class. Boyer then had me get some of the new equipment out so we could play with it. We put Tim on the Scoop and when we took him off, we noticed that it was bent. So Boyer had me put a call into Bound Tree and I am waiting on a call back from them to see what we are going to do. Then Boyer, Tim and Flipper did date checkes on 6-2 and 6-4, and 6-5. The Flipper, Boyer and Wentzel went in Boyer's office and me and Tim finished up the date checks. Stutzman ran up to Jo-Jo's and got all of us lunch and after we were done doing the checks, headed into the day room and I sat down at the table and ate two of my three slices if pizza and tried to finish reading the sports section of the paper. Then around I believe 13:00 hours the tones went off for a CVA in Eville Borough. Me and Flipper were getting ready to get in 6-4 to take that call, when the tones went off again for breathing problems in Eville Borough. Tim and Stutzman took that call. After we got the lady loaded up and I went enroute to Harrisburg Hospital, county asked if we had a medic that could break free and headed to Upper Paxton for a call. I told them to go ahead and hit the tones as we might have a third medic available. All three of us ended up going to Harrisburg Hospital, with Boyer coming down on Millersburg's ambulance. Once we got what we needed down there, we headed on back. Once back I finished my other slice of pizza and the sports section and then Tim and Stutzman showed up and then Boyer got back and then we all sat around out in the bay and shot the shit and then Tim and Stutzman left and headed back up to Lykens and Boyer left for home. I then got stickers on all of the ALS gear and then sat down and ate my lunch, which was now dinner and got ready to watch the Sugar Bowl between Utah and Alabama. At 20:08 hours my fire pager went off for an accident with entrapment in Jackson Township. Our pagers then went off and we got in 6-4 and off we went. We heard the reports of something slippery on the roadway and I assumed it was in the area of the scene. Well when we came down the other side of the Eville mountain I noticed that there was something on the northbound lanes of the road and continued for a long way. I told Flipper that there was something on the road all the way up here to. Then just before we got to Rutter Road, someone slid off into one of the fields and I now told county that there was something on the roadway starting from the top of the Eville mountain and was still on the road. So we got to the scene and there was an SUV on it's roof in the grass in front of Hoffman's. I grabbed my vest and put it on and headed down to the car. Flipper and Alf were working on pulling back the one front door and then Tom asked me how much cribbing we had on the Engine and I told him about half a compartment full and he said that we were going to need all of it. So I ran up towards the Engine to tell them when I saw Andy and Jeff Enders walking down through with cribbing. I saw my father and told him that we needed all of the cribbing off and then grabbed the 3 big 8 x 8 ones and carried them down to the scene and then grabbed a backboard off of 13's rig and took it down to the car as now she was going to crawl out of the vehicle. Flipper then went abc got back in the truck and I talked with Jason for a little bit and we all said it smelled like shit. Jason said it was going to be a long night. I told him I would get off at 08:00 hours Saturday morning and if they were still out I would relieve someone. We then followed Rescue 21 back up through and then Flipper asked me to stop at Koppy's which I did. We had just come out of Koppy's when the tones went off, but it was for a call in Lykens Borough, that 6-5 took. We then headed back to the station and before I backed the truck in, I hosed all the tires off and the wheel wells and the mudflaps to get the shit off of them. After I backed the unit in I had to wash the bays out as I ended up getting some in the bay. I then got on the computer and centralpafire and started a thread and started posting stuff I got from listening to my pager and reading the comments and units off of I/Net. I watched the game while I did all this and Utah ended up beating Alabama. I also called the TV stations to see if they had been advised of the road closers and the lady from ABC27 ended up asking me some questions about it. I answered them the best I could and then watched the news at 11 and they had it as breaking news with a team on their way to the scene. Then sometime after midnight, the tones went off for a CVA in Washington Township and we took that call. After we got the guy loaded up we ended up having to the Millersburg way to get to Harrisburg Hospital as PennDot had the road completely shut down now. The tones then went off about 15 minutes later for another ALS call, this time in Halifax Township. They went the back way by the way of Powell's Valley Road to get to the scene and Tim got placed in service anyway. After we got what we needed, we headed on back up through. We got back to the station and I hosed the bay out again and then backed the truck in and helped Flipper restock and then he did his chart and I got back on the computer. When we were headed down through it sounded like they were getting ready to start hosing the roadway down as they had Engine and Tanker 29 dispatched along with Engine 35-1 and Tanker 35. I finally laid down in bed around 03:30 hours and around 04:56 hours the fire pager went off for all fire police to open the roadway back up. In the end they had apparatus there from us, Halifax, Millersburg, Elizabethville, Gratz, Linglestown, Duncannon and Summerdale, and Fire Police from Berrysburg. I got up this morning at 07:45 hours when the alarm on my cell phone went off. I got up and got the stuff back on my belt and got my boots on and put my pillow away and then took my suitcase out to the day room. I then got my stuff out of the truck and once Zach got there I clocked out and headed on home. I drove down through to see what the roads looked like and they looked pretty good, only a few spots where the shit had frozen before they could spray it off. I then stopped at the station to see if anything was going to need cleaned up later on or not and there was. I then headed on home and once at home I changed into my pj's and went back to bed to get some more sleep. My cell phone rang around 10:20 hours and it was ABC27 again wanting to do a follow up and wanted to know if they could ask me some questions. I said about my father and to call back later since they had just gotten home around 06:00 hours this morning. The tones then went off around noon for all available personnel to respond to the station for an emergency work detail. I got up and changed into street clothes and then headed on up. Once up there Jason and Matt were already there and I said my father was coming up behind me then. My fathe then showed up and then Schoffstall, Katina, Lonny, then Robby, Andy and Barb. Schoffstall then went in and got us three pizza's and Katina got some soda's out for us. Jean then showed up and talked with Jason about the fire police. Meanwhile we pressure washed the hose that was used and then they hosed off the Engine and then I did the utility and then we broke for lunch. After lunch we went back down and they hosed the Tanker off while my father did a follow up interview with ABC27. The lady had called while we were eating lunch and talked to him a little bit and then when he got off he said that someone was coming up to do a follow up. We then hosed the dump tank off from the Tanker and then put the trucks away and everyone headed on home. My father loaded the barricades up in the back of his truck and I met him at home and then we ran them over to the township building and stacked them out back. We then headed back home. Once at home I read the paper and then ate dinner and then took a shower and am soon going to bed as I am tired.