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All right. What's going on at that location, ma'am?
All right.
Were any weapons involved or mentioned, ma'am?
-Hello? -She's got a knife!
She's got a knife! Drop the knife!
Drop the [BLEEP] knife, now!
Ma'am. Hello?
Does she still have the weapon, ma'am?
Oh, god, it's bleeding.
Officers 250, you're going to be going for a 17-year-old male
who has been stabbed in the arm
[Indistinct]
Be advised you're code four.
-Apparently PD is en route. -They said bleeding controlled?
Let me find out. Alpha 3250.
Do we know if bleeding control was given?
Negative, sir. I do not. Be advised the female
is still on the scene, armed with the knife.
It's the male that was stabbed in the arm.
All right. So the female stabbed the male in the arm.
The female stabbed the male,
and the female is still on scene.
So being that it's a stabbing to the arm doesn't mean
that it's a minor injury. The arm is very vascular,
and there's a lot of arteries that go up and down.
If one of them's cut, he could bleed out and die.
Be advised scan code four.
All right. We copy. Alpha 3250 Visuals on scene.
-What's going on? -Let me see your arm.
I'm going to start ━
-Ah! -Alpha 3250,
there's going to be a trauma activation.
-What did she get you with? -A knife.
-A knife? -Oh, yeah.
I'm worried about muscle damage, tissue damage, the nerve damage
and possibly if she did hit a vein
or an artery deep inside the shoulder
because you hit one of them,
it's going to bleed and it's going to bleed a lot.
-I got him. -You want to get him on that?
-Yeah. -Now, give me your arm.
I'm going to start a little IV on you, okay?
I know it hurts. I know. And she got you right on the thumb, too?
Uh-huh.
Was that like a defensive wound?
All right. Did she get you on the neck, too?
-She scratched me. -She scratched you?
-So these are all scratch marks? -I was stupid.
All right, brother.
Just turn your arm just a little bit for me.
You just got stabbed. I know this ain't going to hurt you.
-Yeah, for real. -All right, brother.
Are you ready?
-That wasn't that bad, was it? -It was bad.
-No it wasn't. -No it was not.
At 17, you don't need that in your life.
I feel bad for this little dude.
-You ready to roll? -We're ready to roll.
-All right. -All right.
Is this the first time you ever got stabbed?
Uh-huh.
It ain't going to happen again, huh?
I hope not.
I hear you. All right. Are you ready?
Uh-huh.
-One, two, three. -Ah!
There you go. Not going to touch it again, okay?
I've got to get stitches?
They've got to go in there and see how deep that is.
They got to go in it?
If you said it went all the way in.
That was ━ That's at least 3 inches in your back shoulder.
That's pretty deep, you know?
A little bit.
Yeah, I mean it's ━ You just got stabbed.
You're in pain, so. What's your pain level
at right now, without touching it right now?
-Ten. -It's a ten?
-It hurts. -All right.
Once he gets to the hospital, they're going to take
an X-ray of his arm,
his upper chest to make sure it didn't penetrate his chest,
but he's still in a lot of pain right now.
All right. I'm going to give you a little pain medicine.
-All right? -Uh-huh.
It's going to get you a little━-
Wait, wait, wait. It's a shot?
No, no. It's going in the IV. You're not going to feel it.
-Oh, right on. -That's why I started that IV.
-I don't want no more pain.
-Aw, I feel it.
-I know. -Ah!
-There you go. -Oh!
You're all right, my man. I know it's rough sometimes.
You want to be a paramedic? That's what I'm talking about.
The school is about 18 to 16 months.
When he tells me that he wants to be a paramedic,
that makes me feel good
because any patient I have in the back of my truck,
I treat as they're my family.
How's your pain level? You're starting to feel it, huh?
I can see.
So I hope the way I treated him, his wounds, took care of him,
it showed him that, "I want to do that one day.
I want to take care of a patient like that."
I'm going to take care of you, okay?
Because his foot hurts.
Dude called an ambulance because his foot hurts.
He shouldn't be walking anyways. He should be in the bed.
Right, right.
Oh, I brought you a little flare for that plain,
basic-ass clipboard you got.
What you got, dude?
I got you a Luke Bryan sticker for that thing.
Luke Bryan?
I know you a big Luke Bryan fan.
That that dude that sang that "Shake It"?
I mean he is just what country is today.
He's not ━ I'm not going to say his music is terrible but ━
I don't know. I just never got into country, bro,
but then my man, Luke Bryan, came and just changed it all.
You know what they say happens
if you play a country song backwards, huh?
-Nah. -You get all your stuff back.
Your old lady comes back to you. Your dog comes back to you.
You get your truck back from the bank.
You have me forgetting how white you are sometimes, bro.
We arrive on the scene,
and we're looking for the patient,
and this is an industrial area,
so that's kind of strange. There's no houses around here.
-Oh, I see it now. -We in the middle of nowhere.
This guy has no business being out here at this time of night.
-What happened, man? -I don't know.
-Did you hit it or what? -I don't know what happened?
━ and then it just started hurting.
-John, right? -Yes, sir.
Can you make it to the side of the ambulance? All right.
-You just got off work? -Yes, I'm going to work.
-Oh, you was on your way. -All right.
We're going to take a look at your ankle. All right, John?
You didn't twist it or nothing, huh?
It just started hurting all out the blue?
-All out of the blue. -Where does it hurt at?
All right. Where were you walking to?
You was going to walk from here all the way to Walmart?
-Do you do that regularly? -Pretty regularly.
To go to work? Man, I got to give you that, man.
Right. You got to get [Indistinct].
I've got to shake your hand on that one, man.
As it turns out,
he walks like 15 miles one way to work every day.
-Does the buses run this late? -No, not really.
That's why he's walking.
Man, I've heard people say they don't want to walk
15 blocks to work, more than less 15 miles,
so you've got to give that man some serious respect.
You're pretty good, man. Hey, look, dude,
we don't see any bruises or anything like that,
so we'll just ride you to the hospital.
Are you cool with that?
-That would make sense
why his foot hurt so much, walking that far.
It's like when your car breaks down, you've got to get it fixed
so you can get to work.
His foot broke down, so he's got to get it fixed
so he can get back and forth to work.
You listen to country music, man?
-Really? All right. -All the time.
Who is your ━
Have you ever heard of this cat named Luke Bryan?
-Luke Bryan. -That's my man, right there.
That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talk ━
He said that Luke Bryan is not country music.
That what I'm saying. Okay!
He's today's country.
I know, but he ain't real country!
-Yeah, he is. -Out here ━
Exactly, exactly. Hey, can you please exit the ambulance, man?
This is for the Luke-Bryan people, man.
Titus knows one song by Luke Bryan.
All right.
But that one song gave Titus just one more tool
to put in his toolbox of how to connect to patients.
So hold up, for you to get on time,
you'd have to go to work 5 hours before you ...
Hey, man, I'm liking you more and more.
So we are going to the 800 block of Bourbon
for a male involved in a fight and he is bleeding.
From the back of the head, lots.
People bleed lots from the head.
-232 in there. -Lord, have mercy.
Hi!
Ooh, you've got a lot of hair.
Yeah, you've got a little cut back there.
Do you know what day it is, baby?
-No. -Do you know what month it is?
Any time you get a blunt-force trauma to the head,
your brain rattles around a little bit
which can cause an internal bleed.
The fact that he doesn't remember the event tells me
that he lost consciousness, which is a concern.
-Does he need stitches or what? -Yeah.
Okay.
Do you want to hop up for me, babe?
So what happened, baby, somebody hit you?
You're just kind of walking along and then boom, that's it?
We've got some [BLEEP]. Lift your arm up and out for me,
I'm going to take your blood pressure. Relax here.
Perfect.
So he's got about a 4-centimeter laceration.
What did you get hit with, you don't know?
He doesn't remember at all.
But you didn't get knocked completely out,
like wake up on the ground or anything?
-No. -Okay.
Any time you get a blunt-force trauma to the head,
your brain rattles around a little bit,
which can cause an internal bleed,
so we need to get him to the hospital
and make sure that he gets a CT scan
to see how bad it may or may not be.
I'm going to go ask and see if they know what happened.
Okay. Any alcohol or drugs tonight?
-Just beer. -Okay.
Hey, do y'all know what happened at all?
Okay.
So do you want to know what happened?
I want to know what happened.
Do you want to know what happened?
You were somebody's hero tonight.
-Hey!
Uh-huh.
So the guy that they have in custody
was assaulting another guy physically.
And so you jumped in and tried to help get him off of that guy,
and you went back and hit your head on the ground.
-Good job, sir.
That's all right.
But that's what they said, huh?
That's a better story than, "I don't remember."
So we're going to take you up to Tulane, okay?
-Okay. -All right.
He saved someone from getting beat up,
and although he incurred an injury from it,
he was somebody's hero tonight which is awesome.
You got a little headache?
Your brain gets scrambled.
It takes some time to get it back together,
and you might have a headache for a couple days.
I know it's strange and doesn't make any sense,
but it's pretty normal, believe it or not,
so don't worry about it.
3232 at the hospital.
He has a true New Orleanian soul and spirit
in that he saw something going on that he didn't like,
so he stepped in.
People like that do make me so proud of this city.