We're on ride to a motor vehicle accident.
Some possible people trapped.
Got a unit and a rescue truck coming.
Tommy's on scene.
Yeah, he's got it.
6210 I'm on scene.
I pull up on scene.
I see a brutal collision Oh, this is not good.
What y'all doing?
TOMMY: Driving at an unknown rate of speed,
struck the light pole right here.
Kind of--
PASSENGER: Oh my god.
TOMMY: I don't see-- like I said,
I don't see anything in it.
Probably some glass.
I get on scene and I see a car that has crashed into a pole.
This is a vicious accident.
Fortunately, Tommy is already on scene.
This man is in a lot of pain.
All right.
While Tommy is taking care of the passenger,
I want to check on the driver and make sure he's OK.
TOMMY: Straighten it out.
KEELEY: You all right, babe?
All right?
Did you want to go to the hospital or anything?
The driver's out and walking around.
He's fine.
But we really need to get the passenger to the hospital
because if he does have glass in his eye,
it could affect his vision.
We got one for transport right here, babe.
Hold on, man.
We're going to get the stretcher and get this on your neck.
Grab a hold of him so he doesn't fall.
PARAMEDIC: Have a seat.
Just keep that eye closed.
PARAMEDIC: Look, so--
KEELEY: Just keep that eye closed.
PASSENGER: OK.
KEELEY: You'll have to activate him.
You're not in trouble, man.
That's your friend, I mean.
Your life and everybody else.
That's why we have Uber.
You could have lost your life, man.
All right, man, they're going to take you.
Good night, sir.
6210, I'm clear.
Apparently these guys were going home after a night out
on the town and his friend didn't quite make the turn.
He hit a pole.
Luckily, his irresponsibility didn't kill anyone.
Earlier we had an officer get struck while she was working
a motor vehicle accident on an interstate, supposedly
another drunk driver.
Stuff like that happens, it affects all of us.
We're en route to a female that has had her eye
bitten out by another person.
This would be a first for me.
Yeah the eyeball's out of the socket and dangling,
is that correct?
All right.
We get shootings and stabbings from this particular area
quite often, so it's not unusual to get a traumatic call.
But I've never had anybody that had an eye bitten out.
How are you doing?
The [bleep]
All right, we got patient contact.
We got to get her on the stretcher, babe.
Get that stretcher in here.
Don't worry about that right now.
How'd it happen, babe?
Can you see?
Put some seat belts on you.
Where's the perp?
The perp-- that's-- he didn't do it, huh?
All right.
We got called out for a woman that had her eye bitten out.
The entire eyeball was out and just kind of sitting
outside of the eye socket.
About how long ago did this happen?
All right.
You're not hurt anywhere else, huh, baby?
All right.
Can you see out your left eye?
All right.
OK.
Don't do that.
Yeah.
Just-- don't wrap it, just leave it.
Just sit it on there.
Right
Quick stick.
All right, let's go.
We've got to go, Sarge.
All right, guys.
Let's go.
I don't think that it was bitten out.
From the way it looked, whoever did
it had some long and sharp fingernails
and literally just gouged her eye out.
The pupil and everything was deformed,
so more than likely, she's going to lose that eye.
And she was pretty calm, so--
I don't know if I'd have been that calm.
HOLLY: We're on route, [inaudible]..
We're going to the 3300 block for a male that was shot there.
EMS, we copy that, right.
I mean, how do you say you just woke up shot?
NICK: It is a medical anomaly.
MALE PARAMEDIC: What's up, man?
HOLLY: OK, baby.
Can we get you in a truck, so we can--
NICK: All right, we'll take care of everything.
Let me look at you real quick.
I'm going to have to cut this off of you, OK, honey?
Initially, he appears to be fine.
It doesn't even look like he shot.
He's got one in the chest.
NICK: He's got one in the chest right here.
HOLLY: All right, baby.
Let's go this way.
I lift up his shirt and I can see that he has
a bullet wound to the chest.
Sit right here for me, OK?
You're not going to die, baby.
We're going to take care of you.
HOLLY: We of course, immediately just get him
to the back of the truck so we can
see if he has anything more.
Right here, but that's where it starts.
It's swollen right there.
Did you fall?
OK.
And you just woke up with this?
VICTIM: Yeah, I heard it.
I don't know how they got in my house.
HOLLY: Nick and I get a call for a male shot inside of his home.
He has a bullet wound to the chest.
So while assessing him, Nick feels the back of his head
and he can feel a little skull deformity.
All right, baby, sit back--
NICK: Wait a minute.
It looks like he's crying tears, literally.
I can't figure out what until I look at it really close.
HOLLY: Oh my god.
NICK: That's right there.
HOLLY: That's it.
Yeah, baby.
NICK: He's actually got a hole in his eye socket
from a bullet.
You got one right here and you got one right
here in the crease of your eye.
It looks like it went into your nasal cavity
and it may actually ended up back here.
Can you see out of this eye?
OK.
Were you able to see out of this eye before?
HOLLY: Because he happened to be blind in the eye
that he was shot, he had no idea that he
was actually hit in the face.
Stick out your tongue.
Got blood in his mouth.
NICK: Yeah.
HOLLY: I mean, the chest wound alone, he was definitely going
to be a trauma activation.
But then when you have someone shot to the face,
he could have swelling of the brain, bleeding on the brain.
I mean, the possibilities are endless.
So we are going to get him to the hospital
as quickly as possible.
Just relax your arms, OK?
OK, he's in the front seat.
Just count your blessings, try to relax,
don't touch back there behind.
HOLLY: All right, little pinch.
I know this is a stretch mark, so it might hurt a little bit.
Nick, I need one of those lines over here.
NICK: Look at it this way.
They didn't get your son and you're going to live.
So you look at it like that, you're really lucky.
I'm going to grab you a scope real quick
and I'm going to check out the little one.
NICK: Thank you. - Come here.
Lift up your shirt.
I just want to make sure you're OK.
You don't have any pain anywhere?
All right, hop in.
NICK: I mean, in my day, I've seen a lot of lucky people,
but this guy probably ranks in the top five.
Chest? OK.
Face?
Come on.
You don't normally get shot in the face
and live to tell about it.
I have your son, baby.
He's in the front seat.
Say hey to your dad.
NICK: He's in the front.
HOLLY: 3232 Code 3UH.
NICK: The luckiest dude you're going to meet.
Dude.
Did it go straight through or did it go--
Entrance and I couldn't--
Obviously, you can't tell from an X-ray.
You're going to need a CAT.
Right.
But you could see the bullet--
HOLLY: In the back.
Yeah, so one--
HOLLY: And then you got the one in the chest.
Right.
And luckily it didn't hit his heart.
Right.
You know, so--
HOLLY: Or a lung.
The luckiest dude, period.
Once he comes out, we going to the boat.
We going gambling because--
That's what y'all doing?
NICK: Yeah.
Y'all decided that?
Hey, I'm going to have--
I'm going to find him and I'm going
to put all some money on whatever he says, red or black,
whatever he wants.
HOLLY: Cause you are one lucky, lucky dude.
NICK: Yeah.
I am like a high dollar wine.
[laughs]
What?
You got to smell it, swirl it around,
take it in slow because it's a lot,
if you take it in too fast.
Let's go.
PARAMEDIC: 6020 [inaudible] area.
LANDON: Hey, I'm going to rinse your face off, OK?
Lean forward for me.
I know. I know.
I'm sorry.
I know that's uncomfortable.
OK, my man.
Take my hand.
The stretcher is right here.
OK, careful step.
BROOKE: I gotcha.
LANDON: There you go.
What happened, man?
Why'd this guy throw bleach at you?
BROOKE: A little stick, OK?
LANDON: Did you know him?
BLEACH VICTIM: No.
LANDON: Never seen him before in the neighborhood or anything?
So y'all didn't even have a conversation before?
It wasn't like y'all were fighting?
He just randomly did it?
I'm sorry.
I am so mad.
They had no connection.
There was no reason for him to be mad at him.
It was just violence for the sake of violence.
You can't see?
At all?
BROOKE: I think his eyes are just burning that bad.
Here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to keep flushing your eyes
while we go to the hospital, OK?
You ready?
Just keep them open.
Yeah, let's go.
BROOKE: All right.
I know. I know.
Let me keep flushing them, OK?
I'm going to get all that out of there
so they don't get any worse.
I was so mad during the whole thing.
I mean, I was just like shaking, I was so mad
because it was so pointless.
Some guy walks by your house and then just for no reason
assaults you in this way that could really
change your life forever.
We're almost at the hospital, buddy.
What about now?
Can you see how many fingers I'm holding up?
Can you see my hand right here?
That's good.
That's the right answer at least.
BROOKE: Are you eating an ice cream sandwich?
PARAMEDIC: Uh-huh.
God gave us ice cream sandwiches because people throw bleach
in other people's eyeballs.
Are you eating your feelings right now?
LANDON: Right now.
Yeah.
So anger and misunderstanding is ice cream sandwiches?
You're catching on.
You're close.
You get a B-plus.
I get an A-plus, sir.
We're in route to New Orleans East.
We got a male that's been shot in the face.
Got a sprint truck and another unit
in route to give him a hand.
6210 at the complex.
I pulled up with the unit.
So the unit goes to get the patient.
Hey, y'all need some lines set up?
Yeah, he says he's going to be in room 4.
PARAMEDIC: All right.
KEELEY: We confirm that it was going
to be a trauma activation.
My thought is get in the back to a truck and start setting up.
That way, we can just put him in and it
doesn't take but a few seconds and, bam, we can go.
Went in and stuck over there by that eye, huh?
He's got a gunshot wound to the left cheek
and he's got huge swelling to his right eye.
So automatically assume that the bullet has lodged back
behind his right eye somewhere.
We're going to do some quick IVs on you and get you rolling, OK?
It could have ricocheted anywhere off his skull.
So concern there is bleeding internally.
We needed to get him to the hospital
as quickly as possible.
All right, baby, you got a big stick coming right here.
Don't move, OK?
All right.
KEELEY: 1, 2, 3.
You're rolling out right now, baby.
Right now.
All right, let's go. We're rolling.
Let's go. Let's go.
You started running from down there?
Apparently they got casings all over.
Shooting started down here.
Guys started running.
They were lucky they only got him once.
What's up, mama?
So I'm about to exit the apartment complex
and I see one of our dispatchers.
I'm all right.
You all right?
Oh. All right.
Well, you need a ride?
You got somebody?
No, we just got here.
We just left.
We was at the Hard Rock Cafe and hauled ass in out here.
All right, well, he's shot.
He's got an entrance wound over here
and it looks like the bullets lodged.
But he's talking, he was awake and oriented.
All right.
Y'all need a ride?
You got a ride?
All right.
New Orleans is really a small city.
All right, baby.
Holler if you need anything.
The likelihood of you knowing the victim or the victim's
family is relatively high.
You just don't ever know who your patient is.
It makes it even more sad than what it was originally.
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