Last night, I was working with my normal partner, we were pulling back into the station at around 2200hrs when Comm dispatched us to mutual aide a neighboring EMS/Fire agency on a roll over. Upon arrival with fire we find one Ford F150 rolled over onto the driver side in a pasture. We initially thought the patient was still in the vehicle but once we investigated we found that he was extricated himself thru the passenger door. The windshield was shattered, debris scattered everyone. A neighbor approaches us and related he was the one who called it in, he said the driver was drunk, climbed out of the vehicle and ran into the woods. The fire crew shined their flashlights into the woods when a voice began yelling "You'll never get my MFers!!" started laughing and yelling other explicit phrases. My partner and I were searching around thru the rubble looking for drug paraphernalia or evidence of alcohol when we saw a piece of paper stating that this patient was MHMR (Mental Health & Mental Retardation). There were several bystanders and neighbors at the scene giving us detail as to what happened and they slowly went back to their residences or left. PD and DPS arrived on scene and went to search for the patient in the woods. After about 30 minutes or so of looking in the woods they began searching nearby residences. Then all of a sudden we heard 5 gunshots in a row... We were monitoring SOs channel and one deputy said he heard gunshots and asking dispatch to do a roll call. My partner and I fled to our ambulance and advised our comm that shots were fired, and we would be staging until further notice.... (A sound like that will make you pucker anytime if you don't know who its from or where its going!) All deputy units were clear and they went to investigate the area some more. They met up with the property owner who advised he was out searching when he saw a snake and decided to shoot it. Bad idea dude. (Believe me, I am ALL about killing snakes.... but not when something like this is going on.. and 5 cops searching the area!! Also, if he had to shoot a snake 5 times, he must have some bad aim. LOL) I'm glad that that was all it was.. We only stayed on scene a few more minutes until we were cleared by DPS with no patient found.
That was the first time anything had ever happened to me like this. Still gives me the goose bumps thinking about it! Glad everyone was okay though, except for Mr. Copperhead!
Until next time, be safe out there.
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