The rest of Franklin B shift and day shift at Sanbornton Fire

In a stroke of luck, I slept through the night at Franklin until about 5:45 when we got pre alerted for a call. I was walking out of the bunk room behind the captain when we got toned again, with the off duty tone (for more help) for a motor vehicle accident with persons entrapped. Every car accident is different and even though I've been to alot, some minor, some fatal, I'm always interested to see what we find once we get on scene. I hopped in the front seat of the heavy rescue with John and we pulled out behind the ambulance. We got on scene and found a car off the road with one patient inside. Due to the unique mechanism of injury, it was appropriate to backboard the patient. We carried her up over an embankment with the help of several off duty firefighters who came to the call, onto the cot and into the ambulance. On the way to the hospital I helped Jason put a 4 lead EKG on the patient. This was a challenge because of the way the patient was immobilized on the backboard. It was hard for me strap her down to the board and stick on the electrodes for the EKG but I got it with some patience. We got back from the car accident and I packed up my stuff to head to Sanbornton Fire Department. They run differently than Franklin and staff their station only from 0800 to 1600. I had plenty of time to get there and stopped at Hannafords on my way to get lunch for later. Bruce, another firefighter from Franklin who I have worked with, was on duty with the Deputy Chief, Scott Taylor. Deputy Taylor is a Paramedic who has been in EMS for a while. He did a great training with Andover Rescue last year and was incident command at a "mass casualty incident" I responded to last spring. So, I was psyched to spend the day with him. Bruce and I spent the morning checking everything on their attack engine, then drafting out of a pond. Their engine has a top mount pump, whereas East Andover and Andover's engines are side mounts. I discovered that I prefer a side mount. We ate lunch with the Sanbornton police officers who share the station with the fire department. After lunch I chilled in the deputy's office and in between phone calls, he reviewed some stuff on trauma on the whiteboard, and diverged on a really beneficial and interesting discussion about anatomy, as that is especially relevant to trauma. Alot of what he talked to me about was stuff he has seen as a Paramedic, injuries that you just can't even imagine. He has a wealth of knowledge and it was great for him to teach me. We got a call for a smoke investigation towards the end of the shift and checked that out. Then it was time to head back to Proctor for dinner. It feels like I haven't been at Proctor in weeks, I got that feeling I usually get after coming back to campus from a vacation. Tonight I'm going to Andrew's house, an EMT - I on Andover Rescue to study some more. Hopefully my pager won't go off tonight, I want to sleep!