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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I once asked for an ambulance for an old man I found collapsed, confused and wearing a hospital gown.
Also once for a fire I saw at the roadside near a hedgerow which looked suspicious in its location.
Never called the rozzers tho.
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"I once asked for an ambulance for an old man I found collapsed, confused and wearing a hospital gown.
Also once for a fire I saw at the roadside near a hedgerow which looked suspicious in its location.
Never called the rozzers tho.
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Going to work at 3am a few years ago I saw some smoke from a side street. It was a car on fire so I phoned the fire service. They told me it had already been reported  surprisingly at that time of morning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yep, part of my job as well..
Also reported drink drivers, unroadworthy vehicles, kids shooting air weapons at dogs/cats (caught & prosecuted and parents informed) and a burglary in progress |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Several times for all different services. Once for all 3 at once when a biker came off in front of me and we needed police to manage the road, ambulance for him and fire for the fuel spillage and to untangle the wrecked car and bike.
Never called the coastguard interestingly considering I’ve lived on the coast for half of my life.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yup loads of times in my job ….
And also when we brought my son home he stopped breathing and I had to resuscitate him on the living room floor - considering I have done CPR many times this was totally different ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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More times than I can count.
My mum used to have falls regularly and my son has type 1 diabetes.
Its disconcerting when the paramedics recognise you though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yup loads of times in my job ….
And also when we brought my son home he stopped breathing and I had to resuscitate him on the living room floor - considering I have done CPR many times this was totally different !"
I know it’s shit when you have to do it to someone you know or love or outside a clinical environment. Sorry to hear this. I really hope you had a good outcome. He was lucky you are trained.
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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Yes, twice.
Once for my Grampy who was having a heart attack (which he survived) and once for my mum who was delirious with pneumonia (I didn’t know it was pneumonia at the time).
It took me ages to ring for my mum though as I was a) upset and panicky and b) unsure if it was an emergency in the true sense, but I’d never seen her like that before and it was scary.
She remained in Hospital for just over a week.
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Many many times. One particular day in late summer last year I phoned the police for a fight, an ambulance for a guy who had his head stamped late in the fight and the fire brigade to put out the massive grass fire the same gang of kids started in an attempt to shift the kids they wanted to move on when fighting them didn't work.
Only needed to call the bloody coastguard and I'd have completed the set.
This year with the pubs open and not such a prolonged period of very hot weather has been marginally better than last year - I've not had to phone the fire brigade at all and I've probably called police and ambulance less than half a dozen times between the two. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes. I had severe heart palps whilst driving late at night. Managed to get to a layby rather than being stuck on an unlit bypass. Turned out to be side effects from NSAIDS I was taking for chronic pain.
Had to ring the police whilst following a van and a car late at night which were driving side by side on back roads shining torches into each others vehicles. They turned off down to an army base (so they were obviously in and should have known better). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yup loads of times in my job ….
And also when we brought my son home he stopped breathing and I had to resuscitate him on the living room floor - considering I have done CPR many times this was totally different !
I know it’s shit when you have to do it to someone you know or love or outside a clinical environment. Sorry to hear this. I really hope you had a good outcome. He was lucky you are trained.
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Yes it was a total different experience and when I noticed he wasn’t breathing I panicked and passed him to my husband - it’s funny now because he doesn’t have any training at all lol took me a moment to get my arse in gear !
Yes he is well thanks - very touch and go but he is has the power of being a premmie and they are little fighters ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Loads of times yeah "
You can't plead over the phone, you're supposed to attend court, you know.
I've called 999 several times over the years. Following a stolen car, another time a d*unk driver. Last year, a couple of neighbours having a scrap, although I got there before they did. Most recently for an ambulance, got fobbed off onto 111, which was a 45 minute delay. Back to 999 and got an ambulance straight away this time. Paramedics were pissed off I had been fobbed off on the first call. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
On many occasions, many of which I would be very reluctant to describe!
On one recent occasion I rang to report a savage gang fight that was taking place; I phoned from a phone box within yards of the bloody melee.
The operator required me to give my date of birth; I told him not to bother coming to the fight and then hung up.
This information is my personal data, that I would be unwilling to disclose!  |
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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago
Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria |
Three times, once after I broke into my nans house as she wasn’t answering the door to find she had suffered a stroke another about 25 years ago when somebody tried to break in our house grrrr!! and the other Will phoned for an ambulance when I had one of my fainting episodes and he couldn’t bring me round, so a trip to the hospital  |
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I hope that no one finds themselves needing an ambulance because the wait times even for the most serious of cases are just terrible! I dread to think of the consequences of that of that.
And then you may need to wait hours to be admitted.
The situation is dire!
Ambulances are tied up queueing outside hospitals whilst people are in need of them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Twice... once when I was at work and a child had a febrile seizure in my arms
And not so long ago for someone who was bleeding after a dog bite (not my dog)
I never call the rozzers on 999, I have a very special one on speed dial   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Police several times for road incidents - the last was a d*unk guy wondering down an unlit dual carriageway.
Only rang the fire brigade once to tell them that the automatic alert they'd recieved from the factory I was working on was a false alarm triggered by me using a halogen flood lamp a little too close to an infra red heat detector. Had to wade out through the CO2 deluge with the alarm screaming then rang 999 as the quickest way of standing them down and averting a false alarm charge 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Far too many times, police, fire and ambulance. For people in the street, neighbours, family, and service users.
Including the call to emergency services for the d*unk guy I watched drive down an embankment into a block of flats, narrowly missing children (apparently his dog jumped on his lap and distracted him!) and the police for my mum when she attacked me one Christmas Eve!
I couldn't work in the control rooms for emergency services, not for love nor money! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Once, for myself, to have an ambulance crew to come and scoop me off the road after I was removed from my motorbike by a speeding chav.
Broken leg, broken ribs, and some serious road rash. I didn’t tickle I can tell ye. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Multiple times for Police and Ambulance assistance through varied careers.
In one particular job, my Police oriented calls, were actually to specialist units such as Anti-Terrorist Squad, Special Branch and specific Crime units. I also had weekly calls to Border Force. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Interesting to read all your stories, and quite surprised at how often some of you (not the work related people) have needed to do this. I hope I don’t have to use it again, I’ve used the non emergency one more than enough times |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hope that no one finds themselves needing an ambulance because the wait times even for the most serious of cases are just terrible! I dread to think of the consequences of that of that.
And then you may need to wait hours to be admitted.
The situation is dire!
Ambulances are tied up queueing outside hospitals whilst people are in need of them."
Yep. I was in a&e for 17 hours waiting for a bed. I called the ambulance at 5pm on the Saturday and I got to the ward about 9 in the morning Sunday. I was relatively lucky. The crew who took me in had said their colleagues spent 22 hours with a patient in an ambulance the day before. It’s so bad. People are dying in ambulances outside hospitals. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A few times, yes .. The most exciting time was standing on the other side of the road in front of a daylight robbery in a busy shopping street.. They had machetes |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A few times, yes .. The most exciting time was standing on the other side of the road in front of a daylight robbery in a busy shopping street.. They had machetes
Omg ! "
I know
I was trying to pretend I hadn't seen them and was just nonchalantly talking in the phone... As you do  |
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"Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him. "
I read the first few sentences and thought "shit, she saw me face plant trying to be a clever dick" but then read to the end |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him.
I read the first few sentences and thought "shit, she saw me face plant trying to be a clever dick" but then read to the end "
Don't be silly haha. It was few years back. Don't think I was on fab then 
I was watching his face as he was speeding towards the stairs. Awful as was not close enough to stop him! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yep. A few times. Outside of personal/work reasons - one was when a man came off his bike on a busy road in central london and nobody did a bloody thing!! Another time was when someone set my neighbours house alight.. |
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"Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him.
I read the first few sentences and thought "shit, she saw me face plant trying to be a clever dick" but then read to the end
Don't be silly haha. It was few years back. Don't think I was on fab then
I was watching his face as he was speeding towards the stairs. Awful as was not close enough to stop him!"
It sounds like the sort of stupid thing I'd do on purpose, that's all |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him.
I read the first few sentences and thought "shit, she saw me face plant trying to be a clever dick" but then read to the end
Don't be silly haha. It was few years back. Don't think I was on fab then
I was watching his face as he was speeding towards the stairs. Awful as was not close enough to stop him!
It sounds like the sort of stupid thing I'd do on purpose, that's all "
Haha you are so sporty though! I'm sure the outcome would have been so different. This was like he didn't care and he wanted to hurt himself.
Still up for that park run on 11th? |
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"Quite few times, both ambulance and police.
One just sprang to mind.. a man in a wheelchair who did fell out of it because he attempted something risky on the staircase in a local green space. He was trying to go down the set of wide stairs which obviously would not work. He was old and confused, possibly had dementia. It was bit traumatic to watch. Ambulance arrived really quick thankfully. He seemed fine but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him after they transfered him.
I read the first few sentences and thought "shit, she saw me face plant trying to be a clever dick" but then read to the end
Don't be silly haha. It was few years back. Don't think I was on fab then
I was watching his face as he was speeding towards the stairs. Awful as was not close enough to stop him!
It sounds like the sort of stupid thing I'd do on purpose, that's all
Haha you are so sporty though! I'm sure the outcome would have been so different. This was like he didn't care and he wanted to hurt himself.
Still up for that park run on 11th? "
Yes! Definitely up for Parkrun/push. Just working out which wheelchair to use.... |
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ambulance
many times for various reasons,
used to live on the junction of the A10 Great Cambridge Road and the A465 North Circular road before they built the underpass,
so many accidents, so many injured drivers and passengers over the years...
fire brigade
just once when the wires in the airing cupboard went up in flames and set fire to the towels and bedding in there
police a couple of times,
my car was stolen,
and I had to report a child in a risky situation at one of my neighbours' properties. |
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Three times, at least 911 (American). First time was when my brother ran out of the hospital he was at and showed up at the house. The second time was when we spotted a deer with chronic wasting disease, wish is similar to mad cow, in the backyard. And third time was when we saw a fire in a wooded area behind a neighbor's house. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just the once back as a student. It was a blistering hot summer night and we were in the woods behind our house drinking in the early hours. The woods backed onto a school and we heard breaking glass so I rang 999 and then we went to see...
We ended up chasing some kids who had broken in and we managed to jump one and hold him for the police.
They gave us a ride around the ring-road at 70mph with the blue lights all flashing as a treat for our troubles! |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
Only once, when on visiting a close friend found that she was having a stroke.
Paramedic was there within 5 mins of call and Ambulance 10 mins later, she was in hospital in under an hour from the time of my call.
Pleased to say she has made a full recovery. |
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All of them a few times, including flagging down a car with a family in it because their car was on fire and they didn't know
My own house on fire (twice);
Called the police on my neighbour for false imprisonment.
Various ambulances, one fatal (with me in the back of the car)...
Gosh, I'd never stopped and considered how many times these life saving people have come to my aid, or others aid on my request.
A sobering thought - and sobering reading, as we all seem to have done similar.
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