Lifeguard saves life; Corporation he works for fires him

[nefertiti]

super bad publicity now even if they were technically in the right

thats why there is "mutual aid" within ambulance and fire dept areas...to avoid these kinds of problems and liabilities

and RS, you're wrong...even bad emergency personnel will respond ...good emergency personnel will walk through fire to find anyone..most will even risk themselves to save your pets...which is actually where I draw the line in some instances

a few experienced people will say...drive past a mv accident if it looks mild because they have the experience to know no one is seriously hurt
I have jumped into the river instantly on my lunch break (though the area did happen to be in our territory) to save a drowning boy- to be fair I swim very well
I have sprinted to burning wrecks to get people out of a tractor trailer on fire...an old cutlass on fire and to reach in to an intensely burning car to cut the seat belt that was actually melting into the skin of an elderly woman
that one was incredibly bizarre..mild accident gone horrible awry when the fuel shut off didnt work as intended_..one I was on duty for but the fire dept wasn't there yet and the rest i was driving by minding my own business
Ive put my bare hands on the severed brachial artery of some teenager that punched out a car window...because I didnt have a kit or gloves ...then wrapped it in some dudes t-shirt that offered it up
CPR for 15 minutes on the side of the road for some school bus driver that had a fuggin MI while driving the bus and all I saw were cops runnin around like chickens with their heads cut off

^^^ while off duty
below while on duty

Ive been shot at in the course of duty, had a pool cue broken across my back, been attacked by more dementia patients and psyche patients than I care to think about
spit on...had blood flung at me intentionally ..and a few other fun moments with bodily fluids...have angry patients with head injuries swing at me..more drunks than I can count do any number of bullshit things and even had a incredibly drunk teenage girl (with diabetes which complicates things) grab my tits...and held the hands of more people while they slipped away and there wasn't a fuckin thing I could do about including people I knew well

I averaged more than 500 911 only calls a year between the munip and the commercial service and in my spare time volunteered in training of emt's , paramedics, taught cpr classes and attended public awareness events and I was not by any means exceptional...you are simply dead wrong redsam

dead wrong
emergency people are never off duty

You're an impressive women, shirl. I admire the shit out of you.

Totally how I feel with diving, though on a much smaller less impressive scale . I'm much less often in a life saving scenario as someone who's direct job it is, like you. More often than not my role is to anticipate situations and correct the course before they become a rescue.

But I take on the responsibility every time I am under water, whether I'm on the clock or not. I'm notorious for picking out the "problem child" on a boat and buddying up with them because I trust my own skills to handle a situation over those of a stranger I don't know. I'd rather be there.

But it translates over into other areas of my life, and I know it does for other people who are as ingrained in any similar industry who have had experiences with rescue. Once you've been in that situation a few times it's like a flip of a switch. You see the situation, you respond. The only considerations are regarding methods.

A couple of years ago a dear friend of mine who sadly lost her life while diving last fall was driving down from hatteras to do some diving down here. She witnessed a car go off the road and into a water filled ditch. Without a second thought, she pulled off and was using her scuba tank to break car windows and pull bodies out. Four of the five of the family were dead, but she managed to rescue the youngest, a toddler. Not one person stopped to help aside from the rescue vehicle that showed up about 20 minutes later.

For most people, it's a choice...and if they have to choose, they will probably find a reason to stay out of it. For the rest, it's not a choice. For this guy, I bet he didn't think about it for a second. He just hopped down and ran. That doesn't go away with a sour experience.

 

[digimon7068]

super bad publicity now even if they were technically in the right

thats why there is "mutual aid" within ambulance and fire dept areas...to avoid these kinds of problems and liabilities

and RS, you're wrong...even bad emergency personnel will respond ...good emergency personnel will walk through fire to find anyone..most will even risk themselves to save your pets...which is actually where I draw the line in some instances

a few experienced people will say...drive past a mv accident if it looks mild because they have the experience to know no one is seriously hurt
I have jumped into the river instantly on my lunch break (though the area did happen to be in our territory) to save a drowning boy- to be fair I swim very well
I have sprinted to burning wrecks to get people out of a tractor trailer on fire...an old cutlass on fire and to reach in to an intensely burning car to cut the seat belt that was actually melting into the skin of an elderly woman
that one was incredibly bizarre..mild accident gone horrible awry when the fuel shut off didnt work as intended_..one I was on duty for but the fire dept wasn't there yet and the rest i was driving by minding my own business
Ive put my bare hands on the severed brachial artery of some teenager that punched out a car window...because I didnt have a kit or gloves ...then wrapped it in some dudes t-shirt that offered it up
CPR for 15 minutes on the side of the road for some school bus driver that had a fuggin MI while driving the bus and all I saw were cops runnin around like chickens with their heads cut off

^^^ while off duty
below while on duty

Ive been shot at in the course of duty, had a pool cue broken across my back, been attacked by more dementia patients and psyche patients than I care to think about
spit on...had blood flung at me intentionally ..and a few other fun moments with bodily fluids...have angry patients with head injuries swing at me..more drunks than I can count do any number of bullshit things and even had a incredibly drunk teenage girl (with diabetes which complicates things) grab my tits...and held the hands of more people while they slipped away and there wasn't a fuckin thing I could do about including people I knew well

I averaged more than 500 911 only calls a year between the munip and the commercial service and in my spare time volunteered in training of emt's , paramedics, taught cpr classes and attended public awareness events and I was not by any means exceptional...you are simply dead wrong redsam

dead wrong
emergency people are never off duty

i you

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

what if someone drowned in his designated area because he was off saving some dipshit who swam in the unprotected zone?

lifeguard company would've been sued to shit, and rightfully so. corporations can't be expected to retain employees who don't do their job and become liabilities

in an ideal world the dude who got saved should have to pay the lifeguard some lost wages.

TITCR in full. Was the UNPROTECTED zone not marked properly? 1,500' is 5 football fields. If said dipshit was in that much trouble he would've probably already drowned. Besides, don't lifeguards have radios? Was this one the only one in the area? Worse to worst, he could've called someone else to go check it out while he manned his required post.

 

[nangiggles]

TITCR in full. Was the UNPROTECTED zone not marked properly? 1,500' is 5 football fields. If said dipshit was in that much trouble he would've probably already drowned. Besides, don't lifeguards have radios? Was this one the only one in the area? Worse to worst, he could've called someone else to go check it out while he manned his required post.

Radio someone to come check it out means that other person leaves their post to check out, so still sucks.

 

[RADAR]

super bad publicity now even if they were technically in the right

thats why there is "mutual aid" within ambulance and fire dept areas...to avoid these kinds of problems and liabilities

and RS, you're wrong...even bad emergency personnel will respond ...good emergency personnel will walk through fire to find anyone..most will even risk themselves to save your pets...which is actually where I draw the line in some instances

a few experienced people will say...drive past a mv accident if it looks mild because they have the experience to know no one is seriously hurt
I have jumped into the river instantly on my lunch break (though the area did happen to be in our territory) to save a drowning boy- to be fair I swim very well
I have sprinted to burning wrecks to get people out of a tractor trailer on fire...an old cutlass on fire and to reach in to an intensely burning car to cut the seat belt that was actually melting into the skin of an elderly woman
that one was incredibly bizarre..mild accident gone horrible awry when the fuel shut off didnt work as intended_..one I was on duty for but the fire dept wasn't there yet and the rest i was driving by minding my own business
Ive put my bare hands on the severed brachial artery of some teenager that punched out a car window...because I didnt have a kit or gloves ...then wrapped it in some dudes t-shirt that offered it up
CPR for 15 minutes on the side of the road for some school bus driver that had a fuggin MI while driving the bus and all I saw were cops runnin around like chickens with their heads cut off

^^^ while off duty
below while on duty

Ive been shot at in the course of duty, had a pool cue broken across my back, been attacked by more dementia patients and psyche patients than I care to think about
spit on...had blood flung at me intentionally ..and a few other fun moments with bodily fluids...have angry patients with head injuries swing at me..more drunks than I can count do any number of bullshit things and even had a incredibly drunk teenage girl (with diabetes which complicates things) grab my tits...and held the hands of more people while they slipped away and there wasn't a fuckin thing I could do about including people I knew well

I averaged more than 500 911 only calls a year between the munip and the commercial service and in my spare time volunteered in training of emt's , paramedics, taught cpr classes and attended public awareness events and I was not by any means exceptional...you are simply dead wrong redsam

dead wrong
emergency people are never off duty

I agree I was on vacarion walking When this kid on a motorbike hit something in the road in heavy traffic ,I didn;t think i went into that rescue Zone mode putting myself between him and the traffic without any regard to my own safety.I've done this several times in situations where everyone just stood around and watched.