24 hours with Local 2393 Firefighters

A woman goes into cardiac arrest, the Fire Department is on scene in less than 3 minutes and she is successfully resuscitated. A child has an allergic reaction causing his throat to close, the Fire Department is there within 2 minutes and gives several medications to successfully reverse the reaction. A teenager and her brother are home alone, cooking, when a fire breaks out on the stove, thanks to fire safety education provided by the Fire Department, she uses an extinguisher to knock down the fire, gets her brother out, calls 911 and is waiting at the end of the driveway for the Fire Department to arrive minutes later where a quick attack keeps the fire contained to the stove. A driver makes a turn in front of a tractor trailer and gets into a serious accident and is trapped, the Fire Department is there just after initial dispatch, begins rapid extrication, treatment and transport to the trauma center within 15 minutes. This was just a few of the calls that went on in the Arlington Fire District on Tuesday October 18, 2011. There are 364 more days each year.

(Pictures are of the serious accident and taken by Local 2393)