11/29/06 - Driving to fast on a emergency call.

Does anybody have a problem with Fireman or Cops driving a little "faster" than normal while enroute to a "child choking call"??????.

I would not think most people would. Yesterday, My partner and I were dispatched to a elementary school for a child in the lunch room choking on food. As a unwritten rule that we have all followed in the fire service is that on this type of call you can drive faster that normal. Well as we pulled into the school parking lot a guy in his vehicle pulled next to us and started yelling at us the we needed to slow down. We naturally ignored him and ran into the school.

Well the kid barfed up the hotdog right as I bent down to help him and we started all the medical care stuff for him. He is doing fine now, but I fully expect to get a complaint report filled with the city from this guy, because waiting for us upon returning to the truck was him stating that he will be calling the city and chief.

I really cant wait to defend myself and my partner on this asshole that thinks that we were just driving to fast. A childs life was more important to me and If I do get wrote up it will be well worth it. Seeing the kid smiling and talking is well worth anything bad that could come out of this.......

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