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

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

Larry Kelley said...

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

Anonymous said...

Full Moon on the way!

Larry Kelley said...

And nice weather, on a Friday. Bad combination.

Anonymous said...

"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????

Anonymous said...

Narcolepsy?

Anonymous said...

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.