we're going to
saint anne and bourbon street from
i don't know seizure or something
probably a trump but
maybe a seizure
my name is keely williams i've been a
sprint medic since probably
a couple months before katrina my sprint
unit is just a quick response vehicle
today usually i'm going to be the first
one to respond and i'll start taking
care of the patient
and do whatever needs to be done it's
going to be a fun night
bourbon street is crowded
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it is ashley she is world famous in all
her glory she is out there with a
whistle
and when there's an emergency vehicle
she will literally make people stop
and don't run in front of if she's
stopping you because you will get a
little smack
he's got history of seizures i knew him
okay i see you looking what's going on
because you're not having a seizure
no you're not
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there she is she's out here directing
traffic
no we ain't going that way we're going
to go we'll go straight right all right
we got
third hey look
we need you to clear up just make sure
they're clear i'ma take the stretcher
right over all right
you know charles no we pick him up
all the time every day sometimes twice a
day
fantastic he drinks in order to control
his seizures
come on charles i'll see my man
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been drinking much my man hey
is that your bear yes i want my girl
i want my side right there come on kick
yourself back man throw your feet up
hey we're gonna put the sign on top here
man come on
pull your son hey put the back up for me
gotta love mountain patrol my man got to
love it
thank you guys thank you ashley
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charles where are you from man you're
from west virginia we're made to come
down to new orleans i brought somebody
home after the storm
okay so i said give me 200 bucks
and i'll take you home all right charles
they're gonna get you rolling i'll
probably see you tomorrow
yeah probably yeah
they're gonna bring you back to too late
all right
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never know what you're going to come
across on night watch especially in new
orleans
14 years and
it still surprises me it makes me laugh
you got to have fun when you can uh they
twerking on the bus up there
i don't i don't that's like a booty drop
that's not really twerking i believe
they call that booty dropping
i just come to see what's going on y'all
not in trouble
i'm enjoying the dancing
it's your birthday
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y'all have fun and be careful don't fall
off the bus please
the guy in a minivan was a schizophrenic
patient
hey hey hey and had stolen his mother's
car
i don't know what's going to come out of
that van if he's going to get out with a
weapon
so i knew i just need to get all these
kids back on this bus
something wrong with him there's
something wrong with him the guy in a
minivan
was a schizophrenic patient and had
stolen his mother's car
and the brother had been chasing him
throughout the city trying to get him to
stop
he done stole that car i'm serious y'all
i don't know what's going to come out of
that van
or if he's going to just start driving
around if he's going to get out with a
weapon
get on the bus get on the bus
so i knew i just need to get all these
kids back on this bus
all right the guy that got out of the
stolen vehicle blackmail
he's got a black saints jacket on
shorts i think he just went into the
holiday inn
he just ran out the house he's mentally
humanic so he was supposed to take it
all right family member's telling me
he's manic and uh he's having an episode
doesn't take his
uh medicine so they they definitely need
an pd over here
quick hey guys
we're waiting on nopd he's a psych
patient and gets very violent
so you'll need to stay away from him do
not get him riled up
i don't know if he actually does have
weapons and he was a big guy
i think he's gonna ram you baby i mean
that's your brother but
i think he's gonna ram that car i'm
moving mine
watch out baby 49 can you let nopd
know that he's leaving in a stolen
vehicle it's a white minivan
we got two lane police on scene um
trying to
trying to stop them
all right they have the corner of south
rampart in perdido right now 49
he just had the doors locked and was
just sitting there and wasn't responding
to anybody and you could see
his mom was definitely somewhere else
that's his brother in a red shirt
state police arrived and they got a slim
gym and unlocked the van
yeah he didn't fight with us
we had a unit that was going to
transport him over to university
hospital
for psych care man give you a ride over
to the hospital okay
your mom is going to meet you over there
i mean it started out fun
because of the twerking and the kids and
everything and then it just got serious
real quick
all right but the ending was really sad
and i just feel bad for the family
having to deal with that person that is
mentally
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unstable
so this is my favorite part of high
school yeah he's marching
in the parade one in the band i don't
know and that was a cheerleader
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32 32. that's the reason now
nick and i are standing up 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 that it's gonna be
south everything for now 30-23
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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
pre-existing medical condition
look yeah they are 32-32
17-roll
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 off 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 to action
to help this person
nick are we crossing the route the
challenges of
you know actually 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 patients safe and be able to
get them into your truck without
you know any further harm so we're
crossing the river
i don't know how old she is 17 17. okay
she can go to doomlane
carol hey how are you
give us just a minute all right can you
tell me your name gabby are you hurting
anywhere
no you're marching in the parade yeah
you're gonna be all right sweetie
so did you see what happened no
according to the kids that said that she
ain't showing the signs anything she
just
hit the girl any possibility you could
be pregnant sweetie
no okay there's always a little bit of
relief 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 as what
happened probably from
you know wearing the jumpsuit and
everything being hot
was she's today you missed it
come with the parade the end
of the parade oh are you a senior
feeling any better she's upset because
she's missing the end of the parade
she's a senior you know our hearts go
out to gabby because
she works so hard for this and her
experience got stolen from her
from a medical issue i'm 32
32 i'm too late
we're going to uh man we got a man down
at 800 canal yeah it's not bleeding from
the head
actually that's all it says nailed down
bleeding from the head fall
you think somebody just knocked him i'm
gonna say a fall and
that's closely related to a state of
intoxication ain't always got to be
drunk
yeah dan and i we're ryan from scene
and um we find this gentleman he's
laying on the ground in the pool of
blood
hello hi what happened
there was several people out here okay
that are ignorant okay and
nasty okay and i got
beat like this they were the most evil
all right well listen my my head's cut
right did they hit you with a fist or an
object they
drew me down on the ground okay so you
hit your head on the sidewalk
okay did you lose consciousness no no
okay great we want you just to calm down
and we're going to put you on the board
and then we're going to put you on it
okay be happy don't even worry about it
i'm going to leave you now sir ma'am can
you back up for one moment please thank
you for everything man
man back up where are you from um
chicago from
all right my dad is from chicago it's
gonna be
it's gonna be all right do you have
family down here are you by yourself
he was uh he was jumped
this guy may have concussion the cast
swelling in a in the brain like he could
have a sub door he could tell me like
anything can be going on i mean blood is
everywhere we got to take real good care
of you all right on three one
two three all right it's a head injury
you know
we don't we don't carry x-ray racing's
in the truck so definitely need to get
this guy to the hospital
how much have you had to drink today
a lot you said all right two sig figs
two six packs we normally get the one
beer answer
i'm joking right here i picked up on
that
and i appreciate that 32-20 here around
the university
the violence in new orleans is not
organized our violence is
street thug level type thing we don't
really have gangs like you see in other
big cities
that's why we have so much random
violence throughout different areas
because
there's no loyalty there's no no respect
for for human life there's no nothing so
you say he's from chicago
what brought you down here um
the bp cleaned up and then what happened
you ended up stuck here
um not stuck here i guess that sounded
worse than i meant to save
you loved it yeah it's a good city man
can't let a few bad apples on the street
ruin us you know
we're gonna pull through it you're gonna
be all right
probably get a little staple or two in
that head we can't have your brain
falling out
be safe be strong let's do this get that
stretcher in here you're going to bleed
to death
they're not dead i can work with that