Fire & rescue blotter | Oct. 9

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 194 calls for service between Sept. 28 and Oct. 4, among them the following:

Sept. 28

Aid call: 6:29 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters examined a child who was choking during a crying spell somewhere on Lea Hill and left the kid at home with his or her mom and dad.

Sept. 30

Car versus house: 7:44 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters responded with police to reports that a vehicle had “rammed” a house several times somewhere on Lea Hill. The driver already had left by the time firefighters arrived and no one was home, so there was nobody for the firefighters to examine, nothing for them to do.

Oct. 1

Motor vehicle accident: 12:47 p.m., (Auburn). Responding to a car accident somewhere, firefighters found that one car had struck a second after its driver suffered cardiac arrest. By the time firefighters arrived, two American Medical Response personnel already were performing CPR on him or her. The firefighters regained a pulse after shocking him or her once. Medic 6 transported the injured person to Auburn Regional Medical Center.

Oct. 2

Aid call: 2:18 p.m., (Algona). Firefighters helped an unconscious patient somewhere with airway support and then helped Medic 1 personnel with patient treatment. Medic 1 then transported him or her to ARMC.

Oct. 3

Aid call: 2:52 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters treated a patient somewhere in Auburn with multiple amputated fingers from contact with a table saw. Firefighters stabilized the male or female's hand and packaged the amputated digits for transport to Valley Medical Center.

Car accident: 5:14 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters responded to a two-car accident in the 1400 block of Auburn Way South. One woman was complaining of a sore neck and headache from the accident. At the patient’s request, a friend transported her to a hospital in Enumclaw.

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