黛安·费尔德曼（Diane Feldman）
Tony Greco, Hackensack (NJ) Fire Department Dispatcher:
We had a fire alarm go off in a large hotel in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, years ago. After checking the activation on an upper floor, we found an Asian man who read “Fire Alarm: ‘Pull Down’ for Activation” and mistakenly thought it was the elevator “Down” button.
酋长（ret。）里克·拉斯基（Rick Lasky），路易斯维尔（德克萨斯州）消防局：
当我听到我们的一辆救护车和发动机派遣到EMS运行时，我正在进入办公室。当单位在途中，救护车询问派遣人员是否有有关给出的CAD票据的进一步信息。Dispatch回答说：“单位，您正在回应被蛇咬伤的成年雌性。来电者说，她试图向儿子展示公牛蛇和铜头蛇之间的区别，显然把她的照片混在一起了！”单位到达，以发现一名显然是从铜头（有毒的蛇）中发现蛇咬伤的女性患者，并开始了患者护理。机组人员很快找到了蛇，杀死了蛇，然后将其放在桶里带到急诊室，以便医院可以验证蛇的身份。自我注意：如果您要尝试向某人展示非毒蛇和有毒的蛇之间的区别，请确保您的照片以正确的顺序！
Loveland-Symmes（OH）消防部门副局长Billy Goldfeder：
Listen to the old-Timers! In the very early 1970s, I was a member of a rescue squad in Trenton, New Jersey, and busy wasn’t the word for it. We essentially ran nonstop 24/7/365–and at that age, I was in paradise! From EMS runs to crashes to water rescues to fires, we ran to them all, and I loved it. It was also back when services were a bit rogue–in other words, training and enthusiasm were about equal, and sometimes training took a far back step, but that’s okay. We cared, REALLY cared!
One of the absolute greatest things about being a part of that squad, and something that has NOT changed today, was the opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade from those who know. In this specific case, I had been told one thing specifically by “old-timers” that directly apply to this story (and, again, still apply today): Always lift the patient using the sheet when moving from the stretcher to the hospital bed.
自然，我们在这一天进行了跑步。这是一个EMS的电话，患者患有一些，错误，呃，胃部问题。当然，我向患者保证，她会没事的。她是，但我最终没有。继续阅读。
因此，我们运送了她，在去医院，灯光和警报器的路上进行了一次精彩的交谈。那时，一切都是紧急情况。当我们把她带到那里时，我忽略了“旧计时器”的建议，直接到达患者的“底部”区域（当时没有手套） - 到臀部 - 让她上医院的病床。不要那样做。他们告诉我们提起表面的患者有两个原因，两者都与“运动”有关：
1.它允许患者的一个坚实而迅速的协调和舒适的“运动”。
2.当有人在肠子里死亡时，它可以帮助您避免少量“运动”。
Lessons learned that day? Sure, a few. But the biggest was to LISTEN and DO what the old-timers tell you. They have been there, done that, and have the dirty hands to prove it!
Assistant Chief (Ret.) John “Skip Coleman, Toledo (OH) Fire Department:
我是一名小队的中尉，这支重型救援队驻扎在消防总部。通常，当部门负责人下来并向我们介绍一些有尊严的人时，我们会关注自己的业务（无论哪个有尊严的人都会访问托莱多）。这些访问通常以我们为“指示”来让客人与我们一起跑步。
在这种情况下,我们有幸我eting the future (it was a mayoral election year) mayor’s wife. She was an unusually attractive woman with a great sense of humor and personality, very lady-like and elegant for a bunch of firefighters.
We caught a few little fire runs of which we were cancelled en route or not assigned on arrival (prior to ICS and Staging days).
在最后一场火灾中，我们被送往市区南部的一家城市flophouse酒店。它被称为Stanwalt Hotel，听起来很可爱又古朴，直到您走进正门，绊倒了40盎司的空气，尿液的气味在空中飘散。
我们被指向一个房间，一个年轻人坐在床边，脸上有恐惧的表情。我问他问题是什么，他说他的脚从脚下掉了。
在屏住呼吸的同时，我们仔细看了看，我们看到了数十个包裹他脚趾的mag。气味正在窒息。他说，他的脚不好，几周内没有脱鞋。显然，当他睡觉时，苍蝇进入了运动鞋的孔，产卵。
我们打电话给救护车，然后将他运到医院。在救护车到达之前，他问我们是否要他脱下另一只鞋子和袜子。我们告诉他再过几分钟没关系，要让他等到医生看着它，然后在那里摘下它。
当我们回到球队时，市长的妻子说：“我只有一件事要说：你的工作臭！”
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Diane Feldman, a 22-year veteran of PennWell Corp., is executive editor of Fire Engineering and conference director of FDIC. She has a B.A. in English communications. She has been a yenta (look it up) for most of her life. If you have a story for the Yenta, e-maildianef@pennwell.com。
