You're responding to the 100 block of Bourbon Street
for a drunk male that's down and out.
[Janette] What's a night in New Orleans if you're not going
to Bourbon Street to pick up a Signal 19?
Everybody's drunk down there. Everyone.
[Lindsay] Yeah, like, everybody.
[laughing] We would never leave that--
just even one block of Bourbon Street
if we had to bring every drunk person to the hospital.
[sirens blaring]
We're out on foot!
-Out on foot! -[chuckles]
[playful shouting]
[laughter]
-Screaming into the radio. -Ahh!
[laughter]
But then we just gotta scream.
[Janette] I'm gonna park right here.
Oh, yeah, I'll never get through that.
-[multiple gunshots] -[screaming]
[Janette] Oh, [bleep].
[Lindsay] Oh, oh, oh, oh. Hold on.
[Janette] Where are they?
[man] They over there on the corner,
right there on the next light, on the other side of Canal.
3-2-5-1. Gunshots in the area, stampede on Bourbon.
They had some gunshots, but I don't know
if anybody was shot yet.
[Janette]
is extremely dangerous.
No one knows where to go,
no one knows where they're going.
Everyone is scared.
We are in the direct line of fire
of whatever this could be.
I'm looking for PD.
We're gonna just hold off a second, see if we're needed.
[operator]
[woman 1]
[woman 2]
[woman 3]
[woman 1]
[woman 2]
[woman 1]
there are three people down.
[woman whispers]
[siren wailing]
[dispatch]
reported shots fired.
All units use caution, people are running
all over the place trying to get away from there.
Let's do the things.
[Happy]
and now my primary concern
is management of multiple patients,
potential MCI situation.
Like, are there gonna be more people shot
than there are providers available
to take them to the hospital?
All right-- oh!
-There's one dude there. -Alpha 32-47. We're on scene.
All right, Officer, who's shot?
One?
[overlapping chatter]
-One to the-- where? -Right here in the leg.
-Right there in the leg. -Is he shot?
-Okay, check him out. -Checking out.
Right now, he's number one.
Hey, sir, sir. Have you been shot?
-Where? -In the leg somewhere.
-Somewhere? -Yeah, somewhere in the leg.
All right, man, can you lower it?
-Can you lower it? -[man screeches in pain]
Okay, no, no? Okay.
[Happy] We got two activations that we can take.
The one with three GSWs
is in the Bourbon Heat courtyard,
if you guys wanna head to that one.
[Janette]
Happel and Chase already have two patients,
so their hands are pretty much full.
Thank you. Coming through, coming through, coming through.
As soon as I round that corner and cross that police tape,
I just see bodies on the ground.
[Lindsay] Where's the other ones?
-That one's over there? -[Janette] Look that way.
[overlapping chatter]
[Lindsay] Damn, they spread out everywhere, huh?
[Happy] Chase, you putting on a tourniquet?
[Chase] Yeah.
All right, just in the leg. Nowhere else?
-Yeah. -Alright.
Bro, is your junk in the right space?
Furniture in the right room?
'Cause it's about to get real tight.
[man murmurs]
Sorry, bro.
-[radio beeps] -32-47. Tourniquet.
[radio beeps] 3-2-5-1. We're gonna have two patients,
both are activations.
So, there's gonna be one more patient.
It doesn't meet activation criteria.
If you can get the other unit at Bourbon and Orleans
to come pick them up.
[Janette] Our patient on the stretcher was shot
in the upper buttock, lower back area
near a ton of vital organs, and I already know
there was a lot of blood loss.
In addition, our patient that's sitting in the chair
has been shot multiple times...
once in the arm and twice in the leg.
He's also had an extreme amount of blood loss.
I'm gonna start taking all this off you
to see if you're shot anywhere else,
and then we're gonna get some vital signs, okay?
Oh, this just hurts so bad.
[Lindsay] Are you allergic to anything?
[man sobbing] No. Come on. Please. It hurts so bad.
-[Janette] You can feel this? -[man] I can feel all that.
-Alright. -Please, God, please.
[Janette] We're leaving, baby.
We have two very critical patients.
They're bleeding out and going into shock.
So, these patients need to be in the hospital immediately.
So... I'm thinking we throw him on the bench seat.
I'll take care of him if you wanna go help Chase.
Happy, you need me, or no?
Can that person get here on their own?
-We can spine board him. -You wanna spine board him?
-Do it. -Yeah, I'll spine board him.
I'll hold him on the cot then,
'cause he's gonna be a higher priority.
[man] Please move out the way.
[Chase] We're gonna load him on ours.
-Hey, bro. -What's up, my man?
Alright, can you scooch over that for you?
-Yeah. -We do, so he's gonna
go on the bench seat.
[man] Oh, I'm gonna support his leg.
[Chase]
when responding to inevitable chaos like this,
it's important to remember
that you're the calm in the chaos.
If we don't remain calm, everything falls apart
and people don't get the help they need.
[siren wailing]
[gentle music]
[Janette] How are you guys holding up?
[Happy] So good. How are you?
Amazing, now that it's over.
[Chase] I mean, it's both good and sad
how efficient we are at these mass shootings.
-Mm-hmm. -[Janette] Strong work, guys.
Yeah, strong work.
One of mine's gonna be perfectly fine,
but one of 'em went to the OR
'cause he was shot multiple times.
Heard you all took him out on a bar chair?
[Lindsay] On a bar chair. He was already sitting,
and I was like, can't walk, gotta get him to the truck,
can't use the stretcher, the other guy
-needs the stretcher. -There you go.
I'm absolutely impressed by the teamwork tonight.
We did our job, we did it quickly,
we did it effectively, and then we got out of there.
I just went to the closest body that was to me.
That's kinda how it is on those scenes.
[Janette] Yeah, you'll just find one, you never know.
After such chaotic scenes,
it's super vital to debrief with each other.
I mean, it's a constant cycle of us trying to become better.
And those moments where we get to sit down
and talk with each other, they're so vital
for our patient care and for our own well-being.
Thing is, you're going in there to try to help somebody,
but there's still stuff going on,
there's still active people out there.
[Happy] That's what I told Chase before we got there,
I was like, they might say that this scene is safe,
-but like, this... -Is it really ever safe?
-Is it really ever safe? -No, this is--
we're gonna consider this warm.
And the wildest thing was, people were still partying,
like, literally in the same block over,
were still drinking, sipping, watching it.
Oh, they're there to have a good time.
That's like just a show for everybody.
[marching band music]
Dude, this was my favorite part of high school.
-Yeah? -Was marching in the parades.
Wasn't in the band. I don't know.
-I was a cheerleader. -Okay.
Yes!
[man over radio]
[Holly]
watching one of the parades outside of the truck
and we get a call
for one of the band members that is now down.
Where is it?
[dispatch]
Oh, that's right [bleep] there.
It's right up there, right?
[Nick] En route.
We're gonna have to bring the stretcher
across the parade route. I don't know.
When you're in a marching band during Mardi Gras,
you are marching several miles every day.
So it can be a dangerous situation for somebody
who may have a preexisting medical condition.
Look, here they are.
32-32 on scene.
[Nick] How you feeling?
Not too good, huh?
When somebody passes out, you want to rule out
the most life-threatening emergency that you can get.
So first I'll see if they can wake up.
See what their speech pattern is.
Make sure it's not neurological.
Get some vital signs.
See what's going on with their body so you can kind of
plan a course of action to help this person.
Nick, are we crossing the route?
[Holly]
picking someone up on the parade route
is your crowd.
It's like being in the middle of a riot.
You have to stay focused.
Keep yourself and your patient safe
and be able to get them into your truck
without, you know, any further harm.
So, we crossing the route or what?
I don't know how old she is.
-Seventeen. -Seventeen?
Yeah, she can go to Tulane.
-Hey, how're you feeling? -Hold on, baby.
Let me hop back there. Give us just a minute, alright?
Can you tell me your name?
Gabby? Are you hurting anywhere?
-No. -No?
You were marching in the parade?
Yeah?
You're gonna be all right, sweetie.
[Holly] So, did you see what happened?
[Holly] Any possibility you could be pregnant?
No? Okay.
[Holly]
when their eyes are open and they're speaking.
You know, this person looks okay right now.
So, you know, they're not dead and that's a great thing.
Um, I can work with that.
I think you're dehydrated is what happened.
Probably from, you know, wearing the jumpsuit
and everything; being hot.
-What'd she say? -What you say?
You missed it?
Talking about the parade?
The end?
That's what you said?
Of the parade?
Aw. Are you a senior?
Oh, boo.
[sirens blaring]
-[Nick] Feeling any better? -She's upset,
'cause she's missing the end of the parade.
She's a senior.
[Holly
because she worked so hard for this
and her experience got stolen from her
from a medical issue.
[Nick] 32-32 at Tulane.
[sirens blaring]
[David]
Yeah, we're going to Bourbon Street.
23-year-old female, unconscious. It says "breathing,"
but patient is unresponsive.
-[siren wailing] -[Mac] Abnormal breathing.
-She's probably drunk. -Yeah, I know.
Either drunk, or someone, God forbid,
-put something in her drink. -In her drink. Yeah.
-You never know, man. -Yep. Down there,
you definitely don't know.
You always got to watch, like, who you get drinks from.
Like, I don't ever take drinks from strangers. I don't...
Like, none of that. Like, I get my own drinks,
unless it's, like, you know, if you buy me a drink,
-that's fine, you know? -Yeah.
[Mac]
Young females down on Bourbon Street.
Yes, it could be alcohol-related,
but we always got to keep in our mind
that she possibly could have got drugged.
We got to check for all the signs.
[David] Here we go...
into the "Quar-ter."
[Mac] Here we go.
-[horn blowing] -[radio chatter]
[David] Oh, God, people, get out of the way.
Ah, thank you, man, you really, you really helped me there.
I personally like responding to calls in the French Quarter.
I like the mayhem. I like working in mayhem like that.
-[David] See them right there? -[Mac] Yeah.
You can show us on scene.
What up, boss?
Yeah, yeah.
[dramatic music]
When I pull up on scene,
the first thing I see is
this female hunched over in a pedicab, and...
Bourbon Street is packed.
The crowd is getting really rowdy,
so we need to get this patient up
and in the back of the truck fast.
-Hey! -Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Here. -Hey!
[crowd members shouting]
[Mac]
they're easy calls, but it's the bystanders
that make it worse.
They get mad. They start yelling.
They want to get in the middle of it.
They make it more dangerous sometimes
than it actually is.
[Mac] I make sure
-Get those [bleep] cameras off! -Heads up!
Sir. Hey. Sir, please back up.
I need you to step back so we could take care
-of this patient. -Back up!
Please back up now!
[crowd shouting]
[woman speaking]
[Mac]
forming around me, David, and our patient.
We need to get her up, on the stretcher,
and inside the truck, where it's safe.
You're all right, baby.
We're gonna take care of you, all right?
Don't worry about it. Hey, does anything hurt you?
No? Alright.
Hey, I'm gonna sit you up in case you vomit, okay?
[Mac] Miss Angie, right, baby?
-[David] Angie. Yep. -[Mac] Alright, baby,
we're gonna take care of you, okay?
Don't be sorry.
-You don't have to be sorry. -Let's do this.
I'm just gonna hang this over your head, okay?
[Mac] There you go. I'm gonna start an IV
and give you some fluids and everything, too, okay?
All right, baby?
-Are you allergic to anything? -No.
No? Alright.
[Mac]
She just had a little bit too much to drink tonight.
So we're gonna get a set of vitals on her
and give her some fluids to get her hydrated again.
So, you're visiting from Pennsylvania?
-Yes. -Alright.
[Mac] How do you like New Orleans so far?
-Awesome. -[David] A little too much, huh?
[Mac] A little too much partying right now, huh?
-Yes.
Everybody tries to drink New Orleans dry.
When they come here, walking down Bourbon Street,
double-fisting hurricanes,
I'm like, "You're gonna be in my unit next."
[David] What'd you do tonight?
Like, how much have you had to drink?
Did you do any drugs?
You can tell us. You're not gonna get in trouble.
-Rum and Coke? -Rum and Coke?
[laughing]
[Mac] I got three kids, too.
I can relate to this patient, because she has three kids--
I had three kids young.
You love 'em, but you also need a break.
So we're gonna run her
up to the hospital, so she could be monitored
while she sobers up.
Hey.
And you did.
Baby, I completely understand that.
[Mac] So, tell me, what does that mean to you?
That right there, that tattoo. I like that.
Yeah. I like that.
Hell yeah, I like that. I tell people
to always put their head up, no matter what.
[Mac chuckles]
Here, right here.
-[retching, coughing] -[Mac] Oh.
Baby, stop. You're all right. We got you, all right?
There you go. You feel better?
Alright.
I'm hopeful that she actually
takes a lesson from this.
You can't drink New Orleans dry.
Don't even try.
But keep your head up, have fun.
You got three young kids to take care of.
You cleared your head down here.
Go back up to Pennsylvania and be a great mom.
Whew! You feel better now?
Good.
Hey, you're okay.
-Friends are a little worried. -Yeah, your friends were.
-You can't outdrink the city. -[Mac] You definitely can't.
You could try, but you know what?
-There's always more, baby.