Adventures in Light Duty, pt. 2

Today started off with major excitement...a car wreck at the intersection of River Rd. and Goldsboro Rd. We got there and we saw one car laying on top of the other, with both drivers still inside their respective vehicles. I parked the chief's buggy on a little traffic island and we got out to investigate. There wasn't much I could do in terms of extrication, but I could take pictures! The pics you see below are from my camera phone. They turned out okay, but nothing beats a real camera (which I had brought with me to the station in hopes of capturing some action, but I left it at the station! D'oh!). After stabilizing both vehicles and using the jaws of life to remove one patient, they got both drivers into ambulances and whisked away to the hospital. Seeing such carnage didn't cause me to have post traumatic stress-like flashbacks to my own accident, but let's just say I could relate to both of them a little bit more than I wanted to at that moment.




After getting back from this call, we headed over to station 7 where the chief had some business to attend to. I hung out on the computer for most of the time, checking up on various Crossfit websites. Man, I can't wait to work out again!

For lunch, the chief and the A shift captain from Chevy Chase, Captain Socks (yes, that is his real last name), were supposed to meet with a cop who was involved in an incident that involved the chief's son earlier this year. They were going to have lunch at Hamburger Hamlet. Of course, I got to tag along. It was a great lunch...my burger was awesome and I got to know Captain Socks a lot more (he ran the HazMat training I attended yesterday, so this wasn't my first time meeting him). Turns out he is really cool; he even paid for my lunch!

After dropping Socks back off at station 7, we headed out to station 20 for some more business. After catching up with one of my recruit classmates for a while, we got a call for a river rescue out in the Cabin John area. Turns out a guy lost control of his SUV and drove into a river! We were a long ways away from the scene, but we drove there as quickly (and safely) as possible. The River Rescue Team had gotten him out of the water by the time we got there, so there wasn't much for us to do. Turns out when they got onscene, the guy was out of his car and standing on the car roof! Check out the pictures to get a better idea of what that must have looked like.