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I see dead people
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You are dispatched to the address of a residence where an elderly gentleman lives with his 2-3 sons. The sons are well known to law enforcement. While juveniles, they have done several armed robberies, and lately their bad behavior continues to escalate. They are known to be armed and will shoot at absolutely any vehicle with flashing lights and a siren. The last couple times LEOs have been to the residence, the boys have bailed out windows and hid in an empty house across the street, or in the attic of their residence.
All FD/EMS personnel have been instructed to never approach this address until LEOs have cleared the scene. You have a note included on the dispatch screen of your MDT that states a glass shelf has fallen on your patient, he is unable to get up, and to enter through the back of the house.
Multiple LEOs arrive at the house, and you creep up slowly, until you can see the back yard of the residence through other houses, but are still safely back from the scene. You see PD in the back yard with weapons drawn, and they eventually make entry into the house.
A short time later, dispatch advises you that PD states you are cleared to enter the house, but go through the back door. As you pull up outside the address, you can see a single flashlight moving around on the second story of the house and 1-2 lights have been turned on in various rooms. An LEO opens the front door of the house and indicates he wants you to enter through the front door, rather than through the back. He tells you the patient is to the right, through the dining room, and in the bathroom at the end of a hallway. The bathroom you patient is in is directly in front of you. There is a windowless laundry room to your left and the door to the garage is to your right. The actual garage door to the outside is closed for the night. There is a pit bull in the garage.
You enter the house, as directed by the LEO, and as you do, 2-3 officers come around the corner from the back of the house, and head up the staircase, directly in front of you, after initially entering the home. They have their weapons drawn, one of them has a rifle, and it appears as if they are still sweeping the upstairs of the house.
So, what do you do? Do you go ahead and make contact with your patient or do you back out of the house and let PD know you will come back in once they have completed what they are doing upstairs? Do you do something completely different? Does the condition of the patient come into play in your decision making?
All FD/EMS personnel have been instructed to never approach this address until LEOs have cleared the scene. You have a note included on the dispatch screen of your MDT that states a glass shelf has fallen on your patient, he is unable to get up, and to enter through the back of the house.
Multiple LEOs arrive at the house, and you creep up slowly, until you can see the back yard of the residence through other houses, but are still safely back from the scene. You see PD in the back yard with weapons drawn, and they eventually make entry into the house.
A short time later, dispatch advises you that PD states you are cleared to enter the house, but go through the back door. As you pull up outside the address, you can see a single flashlight moving around on the second story of the house and 1-2 lights have been turned on in various rooms. An LEO opens the front door of the house and indicates he wants you to enter through the front door, rather than through the back. He tells you the patient is to the right, through the dining room, and in the bathroom at the end of a hallway. The bathroom you patient is in is directly in front of you. There is a windowless laundry room to your left and the door to the garage is to your right. The actual garage door to the outside is closed for the night. There is a pit bull in the garage.
You enter the house, as directed by the LEO, and as you do, 2-3 officers come around the corner from the back of the house, and head up the staircase, directly in front of you, after initially entering the home. They have their weapons drawn, one of them has a rifle, and it appears as if they are still sweeping the upstairs of the house.
So, what do you do? Do you go ahead and make contact with your patient or do you back out of the house and let PD know you will come back in once they have completed what they are doing upstairs? Do you do something completely different? Does the condition of the patient come into play in your decision making?
