Here is a routine call that should make you stop and think next time you respond to a medical alert call. Engine 18 responded to a Life Alert Alarm (button activated medical alarm). It was told to them by dispatch that an 82-year-old male lived at the residence. It also stated he … [Read more...]

Sept 11th, around 03:30 my partner and I got a "diff breather" call out in the county. It was on a lake at a year round residence. We get on scene with the vollie rescue dept and go into the house and do our thing. The pt is packaged and loaded on the cot. My medic … [Read more...]

Sept 11th, around 03:30 my partner and I got a "diff breather" call out in the county. It was on a lake at a year round residence. We get on scene with the vollie rescue dept and go into the house and do our thing. The pt is packaged and loaded on the cot. My medic … [Read more...]

Yesterday, Port Orange Fire Lt. Carrasquillo and his crew of firefighter/paramedics responded to a two-car crash. The call turned out to be a most memorable one for Lt. Carrasquillo, an experience he's never had in more than two decades working at the Port Orange FD. An accident … [Read more...]

Yesterday, Port Orange Fire Lt. Carrasquillo and his crew of firefighter/paramedics responded to a two-car crash. The call turned out to be a most memorable one for Lt. Carrasquillo, an experience he's never had in more than two decades working at the Port Orange FD. An accident … [Read more...]

While performing routine maintenance on one of our hydraulic extrication rams, once the ram hit full extension, a seal blew and shot hydraulic fluid out of a gap between the valve and the ram body into my eyes. This resulted in me having to go to the ER and get my eyes flushed … [Read more...]