About lunch yesterday
So the plan was for me to pick up lunch in the McDonald's drive-thru and join Patsy in Bogue Falaya Park. All was going according to plan. There's one vehicle, a van, in front of me and he's just finished placing his order. He pulls forward, I start to pull forward, and ... crash-boom-bang ... there's a guy on the ground in front of the van. What happened? Did the van hit him? He's struggling to get up but a McDonald's employee is there asking him to stay down. I figure this might take a while to sort out so I get out of the drive-thru, park, and go inside.
Eventful lunch - April 28, 2008
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128 days until football season ...
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Rob, that is very cool bird photo. (Though I think it's a Northern Parula. Nice job capturing the broken eye ring.)
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I yield to your vastly superior birder skills, Kem. I think you're right.
I debated whether to say anything after not commenting for so long...
K-
I agree with Kem (on the being a cool photo) I've never seen such a bird in person. Here in N'ville, when you call an ambulance, you also get the fire truck. I don't understand it either unless it's for the (physical) rescue factor.
I'm glad you did, Kem.
Thanks, susan. I'd never seen one before, either. At first, I thought it was an escaped canary. He had a lovely little song. I'm still curious about the fire truck. No one seems to know.
I don't know how real this is, but a friend who is on a local VFD once told me that they have to make sure enough people are there to get the person safely onto a guerney and then safely into the ambulance. What he explained to me was that they transport more people in the ambulance than they used to, as a precaution. They also take more precautions as far as things like backboards, so fewer people actually are allowed to go into the ambulance under their own power. And finally, people are bigger and heavier than they used to be. More people are just too heavy for a two person crew to lift safely, for themselves or the patient.
If I were to call 911 for a medical emergency, I would bet a cop would be there within 2 minutes. A fire rescue squad within 4 minutes(the station is close), and an ambulance within 5 minutes.
That makes sense, Dave. I guess the fire truck is then basically a personnel carrier? The fire station is about 200 yards from this McDonald's. They were there fast.
For those situations, yeah I suppose it is. I've never been involved with 911 operations, but I guess that how many units/people get dispatched depends on how much they know right off the bat and how good that information is. In an emergency people sometimes panic. A house on fire turns out to be a detached shed. Two people injured is called in as "bodies everywhere", that kind of thing. I've seen some responses over the years that seemed overblown, but you don't know what the 911 operator was being told and how much of a "better safe than sorry" SOP went into.