Car Accident

Back to the Akko station for me. I was hoping for no calls for a little bit to get some sleep at the station in the morning. Thankfully that happened.

Emily went out on a Ragil call first and then Areyah and I went out on an Atan call just a little bit later. The first call was to a lady who I think wasn't feeling good but she didn't want to be transported so we left. On the way back to the station there was another call.

This time the call was to the first legitimate car crash I've seen so far. It was on the busy highway between Karmi'el and Akko. We had to make a u-turn at the next intersect to double back the other way to get to the crash. When we arrived a lady was sitting next to her car. I later found out that she had been carried by a medic who had stopped before we got there. She was back boarded and loaded onto the ambulance. Once on the ambulance Areyah took blood pressure and I hooked up the monitor. We got her to the hospital quickly and transferred her.

We then got our next call to a guy who I think was inebriated and there was some what of an argument between the medics and the lady who had called because the lady wanted us to take the man to the hospital but the man didn't want to go. I understood enough to know that they would ask the man, "Do you want to go to the hospital?" and he was like "no." So after a little bit of the go around with the lady wanting us to take him, the medics explaining they can't take him if he doesn't want to go, and the medics asking him if he wanted to go, we left.

Back at the station we hung out for a while and then Emily came back from her calls. She said one of the calls was a guy getting stabbed in the bum. I'm sure it was not very humorous for the guy but it is a pretty funny place for someone to stab you.

We spent much of the afternoon talking with a local volunteer who teaches classes for Magen David Adom. Her name is Avigal and she is only 18 but teaches both teenagers and adults. She was just teaching at a factory in Karmi'el the other day and she was in Akko today for the class with the younger group that I have seen her teach before.