Thursday, October 17, 2013

Busy Day (So Far)

 
AFD & APD University Drive 1:00 PM

In the span of two hours this morning into early afternoon Amherst Fire and Police  responded to an unconscious person found on the Bike Path on Station Road (the 50-year-old man died), a driver asleep at the wheel of a car (with foot on accellerator) at the Cumberland Farms in East Amherst and a serious motor vehicle accident on University Drive in front of CVS.

 
Cumberland Farms 11:30 AM, asleep at the wheel

By 11:00 AM AFD Dispatch was toning for the Call Force (part-time paid responders) to staff Engine 4 for "station coverage."  At 2:20 PM Dispatch again put out a request for "two off duty firefighters to report to the station for coverage".

Station Road Bike Path parking lot 11:15 AM
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 17, 2013 at 5:37 PM

    don't forget the fire alarms at the high school this morning!

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  2. Larry KelleyOctober 17, 2013 at 6:58 PM

    Yeah, they're getting almost as bad as Hampshire College.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 17, 2013 at 9:17 PM

    Full Moon on the way!

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  4. Larry KelleyOctober 17, 2013 at 9:54 PM

    And nice weather, on a Friday. Bad combination.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 18, 2013 at 3:04 AM

    "Asleep" at the wheel with the foot on the gas at Cumbys? There's more than just someone working a few too many hours overtime on that one, and as you didn's say OUI, I;m guessing not. So????

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  6. AnonymousOctober 18, 2013 at 7:47 PM

    Narcolepsy?

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  7. AnonymousOctober 19, 2013 at 12:35 AM

    I always thought that Narcolepsy involved very *brief* "involuntary sleep" periods that were measured in *seconds* -- from the 911 call to first unit responding had to be at least a minute, you'd think.

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