Happy Holidays everyone. We had a pretty uneventful shift and actually got to sleep thru the night again. We responded to a total of 8 calls but none of them turned out that bad. Our first call came in at 7:50 am and was reported as a male complaining of chest pain. Then again at 8:24 we responded to a male with severe hip pain. At 11:35 am we were dispatched to another hip pain. At 3:45 pm we were called to a seizure and at 7:42 pm we responded to a psychotic breakdown. At 9:11 pm we responded to a fight at the American legion and transported one patient for high blood pressure.

Probably the best call of the shift came in at 11:57 pm when we responded to car wreck. The driver of the vehicle hit a parked van on the side of a residential area road and knocked it into the yard a good three feet. The jeep he was driving turned over on it's side in the middle of the road. It hit the van hard enough that it bent a shock and a leaf spring on the jeep. It also bent the heavy bumper on the corner of the jeep. The driver apparently hit the windshield with his head hard enough to break the windshield and his chest hit the steering wheel hard enough to bend it! The best part of this story is that he was able to get out of the jeep and run from the scene. At last check the police were still looking for him.

We finished the shift off at 6:23 am with a call to back up another station but was cancelled before we arrived on scene. All in all this was a good shift.

I hope you all have a safe and very merry Christmas! Until next time; be safe, buckle up and slow down.