FIREFIGHTER’S WORDS -234- OUCH!
This is a rescue call in the early 90s . We were at a very busy station in rescue and fire calls. This call happened late at night at about one or two in the morning . We were running calls all day and night from bullshit to real rescues. The call came in as man standing by car at the railroad tracks . When we arrived on scene the man was standing behind the car facing the trunk .
I was the junior of the three man crew on rescue. My crew members told me to get out of the truck to see why he called rescue. When I approach the man and asked about his problem, he did not respond. As I got closer I noticed blood around the bottom of his legs. I asked the man what was wrong and he stated the had closed the car trunk with his genitals in the trunk and threw away the keys .
I went back to rescue truck to tell my crew members and they could not believe me . So they got out of to check him out. When I asked him why he did this, he stated that he was mad at his girlfriend . W e had to call out the hazmat truck because they had more tools to cut open the trunk. I started an IV on him and asked the man if he was in a lot of pain. He stated no. I thought he was a nuts but I guess you would have to be nuts to do what he did.
We opened the trunk open in about an hour. Nobody could believe that this man had done this to himself . He was taken to hospital and up to the ER. It turned out this was his second time to do this.
Just remember that this is not the thing you do to get even with girlfriend .




