Crazy Sundays

So I am now going to call Sundays..."Crazy Sundays." I figured I would call it that after the last two Sundays. This last Sunday was a crazy day for burns. First call of the day was for a burn patient that was burned by some type of camp fire was what the 911 caller said. The location of the call was at a business that was one of the auto vehicle salvage yard. Well we got there and found a pile of ruble that was on fire but that was pretty much all done burning and there looked like two cars were also burned, but didn't see anyone that was burned. As we were getting out of the truck I noticed someone laying on the outside of the burned area. Didn't look like he was moving and he wouldn't respond when one of the firefighters were trying to talk to him. He finally woke up and we put him on the stretcher and moved to the ambulance. He had a 1st degree burn on his back, and 2nd degree burns to both his lower arms and hands. Since his hands were burned to that degree he won a trip to Parkland in Dallas. This guy was very lucky to begin with that he wasn't burned more severely and that the workers who worked there came in to work on a Sunday. He didn't seem to be homeless and he gave us an address that wasn't any kind of shelter or anything. He's story also didn't make since as to why he was there to begin with.

Later on in the day we cleared from John Peter Smith and got a call for a burn patient from a house fire. It was just a few blocks away and got there quickly. This patient was very lucky as well as she only had some minor burns to her face and arms and singed hair. She wanted to go to one hospital but since she was burned that hospital wouldn't take her and she would have to go to a hospital that had the facilities to handle burn patients. Well when my partner told her that she couldn't go to the hospital she wanted to things went down hill fast. She became crazy and I mean crazy. She ended up being taken by the police to the hospital for treatment and psychiatric care and she was saying she wanted to die. Turns out that she was actually living under the house in the crawl space. The arson investigator told me that she had a nice little set up under there with bedding and all. It was her mom's house and the investigator was still trying to figure out if the fire was started on purpose or accidentally but was started with gasoline. The picture below shows me with the patient of the house fire taken by Glen Ellman. Her eyes have been blacked out to prevent her from being ID.