The Rise of the Medical Emergency, Pt. 37
The Rise of the Medical Emergency, Pt. 37
A beach takes the cake, a flight steward gets irate, a traveler whines, and a prisoner dies. A prowler stops prowling, swimmers stop swimming, drivers stop driving, and a teenager stops teenaging
JUN 27 REPORTS
1) FL Home To Deadliest U.S. Beach After 7 Die While Swimming
‘Three people died while swimming at Panama City Beach on Saturday, bringing this year's deaths at the popular tourist beach to a nationwide high of seven, according to officials and reports.
In a Panama City Beach Police Department news release, authorities confirmed officers responded to "three separate fatal water incidents behind three different resorts" on Saturday.’
‘According to the release, the city listed the deaths as "fatal water incidents" because officials don't know if the victims drowned or had another medical emergency in the water.
City officials identified the victims as Kimberly Ann Mckelvy Moore, 39, of Lithonia, Georgia; Morytt James Burden, 63, of Lithia Springs, Georgia; and Donald Wixon, 68, from Canton, Michigan.’
‘Moore was rescued by lifeguards around noon and was transported to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, Burden died after being rescued shortly after 1 p.m., and Wixon died after being rescued at 4:23 p.m., according to officials.’
‘The deaths occurred within nine days, according to the database. The National Weather Service listed all as involving rip currents, or powerful currents that can carry people away from shore.’
You be the judge. Three in one day suggests perhaps water conditions were to blame. But then, coincidences do happen, sometimes coincidentally.
2) Flight attendant livid as woman calls them away from emergency for ridiculous reason
This is basically just a story. I don’t know when either of these medical events happened.
‘A flight attendant was yelled at by a passenger for not bringing them a drink while another traveller was fighting for their life.’
‘"I had a medical situation on my flight. As I'm attending to it, as a second, more serious situation happens," the flight attendant said.
"I leave the first passenger with one crew member and go to help the other two in the back by grabbing supplies - I thought we were gonna have to use the defibrillator.
"I heard a call bell go off, but it didn't look important - no one was slumped down or laid out in the aisle like the other two - so I kept going.
"As I finish up the situation, the call bell rings twice. I run over, and this woman has the nerve to go off on me and yell that I haven't attended to her this whole time. We must've been in the air for 45 minutes out of a three hour flight and she 'needs a g******ed Diet Coke.'‘
Then it continues with a second story:
‘In the comments below a fire fighter recalled a very similar incident when they were on a plane and an emergency announcement came over the Tannoy, calling for help to save a passenger's life.
"A passenger had become unresponsive and had some pretty serious medical issues going on. Myself, a nurse, and two flight attendants were working together in a cramped space to help this person while a third flight attendant was relaying information," the fire fighter explained.
"Thankfully we were already on initial approach so didn't have to divert but it was clear we would be met on the tarmac by rescue as we didn't have time to taxi to the gate.
"As we're doing our best for this individual a woman approaches and loudly says 'Um you need to move, I can't get to my bag, it's in that overhead.'
Sounds aggravating.
3) MY TRIP TO NEWARK ON UNITED AIRLINES COMICALLY UNRAVELS
The two key paragraphs:
‘At a nearby gate in Terminal 7, Los Angeles – Melbourne canceled because a tire burst during pushback and the captain felt “too tired” to continue the flight (ah, contract negotiation season…).
There was also a medical emergency on a flight to Chicago…’
Too-tired captain and a medical emergency on another flight? Welcome to TROME.
7) Inmate dies at Jacksonville jail after undetermined medical episode, per JSO
‘On Monday, just after 1 a.m., Detectives with JSO’s Cold Case Unit were notified of, and responded to a report of an inmate that had been found in medical distress.
Upon arrival, detectives learned the inmate was housed alone in an isolation cell. He had last been seen moving about in his cell at around 10 p.m.
During routine rounds just after midnight, JSO says the inmate was observed by officers in a kneeling position next to his bunk. As officers attempted to make contact, the inmate was found unresponsive. A medical emergency was called via the radio to alert medical staff and officers began rescue efforts.
CPR was initiated and jail medical personnel responded and continued efforts by administering Narcan without a response.
Members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department were contacted and responded to transport the inmate to a local medical facility for further treatment.
Shortly after arrival, the inmate was pronounced dead by hospital personnel.’
They administered narcan because a lot of times these jail deaths are overdoses. And the jails tend to be a little cagey, too, in their reporting. So, I don’t even like reporting the jail cases for those reasons. But, if there’s one thing I do know: the shots don’t discriminate.
4) Man suffers fatal medical emergency as police investigate prowler reports in south Sacramento
‘The Sacramento Police Department said it received multiple calls at around 4:30 a.m. regarding a potential prowler in the area.
When officers arrived at the scene, they spoke with a man who they said began having "an apparent medical emergency." That man was taken to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Sacramento police said the individual was not handcuffed and no force was used when they made contact with him. Detectives were looking into if the man was involved in a crash prior to speaking with the officers on 51st Avenue
It is unclear at this time if this man was suspected to be tied to those initial calls of a possible prowler. He has not yet been identified.’
5) Bossier deputy honored for saving police officer having medical emergency at restaurant
‘The sheriff’s office says Deputy Casey Bragg demonstrated “remarkable courage and quick thinking” when he performed life-saving measures on Capt. Todd Hylbert with the Bossier City Police Department. It all happened at a restaurant in Bossier City back on May 26.
The sheriff’s office says that evening, Deputy Bragg was out at a restaurant for a going away party with a group of other law enforcement officers when Capt. Hylbert began to have some sort of medical emergency. The sheriff’s office says the captain suddenly collapsed, and Deputy Bragg jumped into action.
Deputy Bragg assessed the situation and began to perform chest compressions on Capt. Hylbert while waiting for medical personnel to respond. The sheriff’s office says Deputy Bragg’s actions “significantly contributed to Capt. Hylbert’s survival.”’
“Some sort of medical emergency.” You gotta love it.
6) Driver survives nearly 30-foot fall after flipping truck into ditch off MoPac
Wow. What a fall. Well, this is another low-info report with no actual mention of a “medical emergency” causing the wreck. I’m out here looking for the term “medical emergency,” the term per se, but I’m also looking for the medical emergencies themselves. So I include likely candidates, like this one, from time to time.
‘A vehicle flipped off of an elevated highway and fell about 30 feet into a ditch Tuesday on northbound MoPac Expressway (Loop 1) where the driver had to be extricated by the Austin Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services.’
‘AFD said no other vehicles were responded to on the scene, and it's unclear what made the driver flip off of the road. He hit a jersey barrier, a barrier usually used to separate lanes of traffic, and flipped over the lefthand side of the road. He landed upside down in a ditch between the northbound and southbound roads, AFD said.’
Who knows. It could have been a cell phone emergency. A late-to-work emergency.
You can see the one firefighter standing underneath the truck. Holy cow.
This sure looks like a vaxxident. Drivers get in absurd accidents, and the high amounts of physical energy involved make crazy things happen. But the thing is, there’s always a captain on the ship. No matter how crazy the ship is, or how distracted the captain was, sometime between things going wrong and the final crumple of metal the captain will show up. There’s someone there that will turn the wheel, or hit the brakes. And the real crazy accidents — they still don’t end up way off the road. Now, I don’t know what the road even looks like in this situation. Maybe it’s set up so something like this was just waiting to happen. Maybe they will successfully extract the victim and they can give an interview later, like the guy that crashed into the Subway earlier this month (TROME Pt. 22, story #2). Maybe we’ll find out more.
8) Teenage boy dies in Dudley after 'medical emergency'
‘West Midlands Ambulance Service were called to Woodland Avenue at 10.35am on Monday but the boy was declared dead at the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called at 10.35am to an incident at a private address on Woodland Avenue, Quarry Bank, Brierley Hill.
"Two ambulances, a paramedic officer and the Midland Air Ambulance Critical Care Car attended the scene.
"Upon arrival we found a teenage boy. Unfortunately, it became clear that nothing could be done to save him and he was confirmed deceased at the scene."
West Midlands Police also attended the scene, with three police cars being seen outside the property. The force has been approached for a comment.’
This is a horror movie. In the actual horror movie, the victims would be carted off in silence, without recognition of their cause of death. Wouldn’t they?
9) Woman drowns at Tuzigoot River Access Point
‘A woman has died after being found underwater at the Tuzigoot River Access Point in Clarkdale on Saturday, June 24.
Clarkdale police officers responded to the Verde River recreation area at 3:32 p.m. on Saturday after multiple callers reported a drowning. Three citizens and a Clarkdale officer pulled an unresponsive woman from the water downstream from Tuzigoot Bridge. The officer and citizens performed lifesaving measures until emergency medical services arrived and took over. Medical personnel established a pulse and transported the woman by ambulance to Verde Valley Medical Center, where she later died. Witnesses estimated the woman was under water for between seven and 14 minutes.
The victim was 54-year-old Vicki Lynn Roberts of Cottonwood. She was floating in the river with her five-year-old grandson when the incident occurred. The child was wearing a life jacket and was unharmed.
Officers will continue to investigate the circumstances of the incident and cannot confirm or rule out any contributing factors until the autopsy is complete.’
10) Coroner confirms body found in old Broadwater Marina as suspected drowning victim
‘Tuesday morning, search crews found a body while looking for a possible drowning victim at the old Broadwater Marina.
Monday around 6:57 p.m., Biloxi patrol officers responded to the 2100 block of Beach Boulevard in reference to a possible drowning. Witnesses in the area reported seeing an unknown person jump into the water and go under, but they never saw the person resurface.’
‘Biloxi Police and Fire departments responded to the area with rescue boats but did not locate the victim. Members of the police department’s dive team deployed but eventually suspended their search due to low visibility.
Crews were back in the water before 7 a.m. Tuesday when WLOX crews witnessed them pulling a body out of the water.
Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer confirmed the body found Tuesday was the same person witnesses saw Monday.’
‘Switzer said the victim had been treated and released for a medical emergency earlier in the day. The victim was living on a sailboat in the old Broadwater Marina. Witnesses said the person didn’t want to wait for a boat to get to the sailboat, so they chose to swim to their home as they had done before.
The identity of the victim has not yet been released.’
Jumped in the water. Went under as soon as they hit the water. Classic medical emergency.
Also, this is weird reporting. “Witnesses” said the victim was “an unknown person,” but they also knew they lived on a sailboat and regularly swam to it. Weird. Apparently they also don’t know “the person’s” gender. I figured at least the coroner would let on. Meh.
Adieu.