Woman cooks herself in scalding-hot bath
[ranking: 2]
"We responded to an apartment building when the caretaker had called us. His initial report was that he went to check on a suite because water had been reported flooding into the hallway. He informed us there was a deceased lady in the tub. He said he saw her and immediately backed out without touching anything.
We entered the suite. It was filled with steam. The humidity had started peeling the paint off the walls in sheets. There was also the smell of cooked meat.
Upon entering the bathroom we found the supposed deceased, seated in the tub, with the hot water running. From the looks of it she had been there a while. The skin on her body, all the way from toes to sternum had started separating. Much like the paint on the walls, it was bubbled and coming up in sheets.
I checked for vitals while someone turned off the water and the others went to get a bag and radio for a can (when a body is badly decomposed, we put them in a sheet metal box).
I almost shit my pants when I found signs of life. The lady had a pulse. She wasn't really responsive, but she was breathing shallow, had a heart beat, and was looking at us. We had to get her out.
We radioed for EMS and informed them we had a live patient with at least 80% burns. They were a few minutes out so we started to get the patient ready for transport.
I don't remember what we were doing when we noticed the water draining from the tub. But what we saw was her torso essentially degloving itself as the water receded. We immediately plugged the bathtub and continued working her.
When EMS arrived we had to transfer her to the stretcher. That's where things got ugly.
We planned to gently lift her out of the tub, and place her on the stretcher. However, as soon as we touched her, her skin was coming off in sheets. I remember saying, 'Sorry ma'am, but we have to do this' as I picked up my section and came away with almost all of the skin I contacted stuck to my arms. That was the only time she made a sound. She probably couldn't feel it due to the nerve damage, but I'm pretty sure she knew she had lost almost all of her skin from the chest down.
The water was still extremely hot, so we were also getting burned while doing this.
We managed to get her onto the stretcher and EMS took her away.
When the bathtub was drained, there was a sheet of skin stuck to the bottom. We had to scrape it off and bag it. I still can't each certain chicken dishes because of this.
We figure she was in the tub and the water got cool. So she turned it on with her toe. She must've had a stroke and could not turn it off again. Being an apartment it had pretty much unlimited hot water. So that poor lady sat there for approximately three days, cooking.
She did not survive. We don't get a lot of follow up on calls, but I heard she passed away.
Between a stroke, and severe burns, it wasn't likely that she'd make it. But we treat every patient like they have a chance. The human body is a weird and wonderful thing. Sometimes people do make it through some pretty terrible things."
Elderly man burnt to a crisp while smoking near his oxygen machine
[ranking: 7]
"Had a call just after I came on duty of a elderly male with possible high fever. We didn't have much more information because the caller (his elderly wife) was, according to the dispatcher, 'hard to understand'. Anyway we head out get there seven minutes or so later.
As we go in, the wife is sitting at the kitchen table just inside the door, so we ask her what's going on. She answers that he 'has been complaining he is too hot all morning'. We go into the next room which is dark due to curtains covering the windows but there is enough light to see a dead man sitting in a chair. Now mind you he was not recently dead, I'm talking blackened-face, rot/rat-bites-around-the-mouth, wasn't-complaining-this-morning type of dead.
I set down my equipment and my partner goes to turn on the light next to his chair so we can verify the obvious. As she goes to reach for the light the dead man groans and reaches for her hand.
After collectively shitting our pants we jump into action, come to find out he was on oxygen and a smoker. He was 'complaining' about being hot because he was literally burning up. What looked like signs of death on his face were scorch marks and melted plastic.
To answer the obvious question, I don't know. He was still alive when we got him to the hospital and I never asked what happened to him after that."
Church janitor crushed by cross
[ranking: 6]
"I responded to a call where a janitor was dusting quite a large stone cross in the middle of a church. He had been up on a ladder cleaning, when he slipped off, and proceeded to try to hold onto the cross to keep from falling. Unfortunately, the weight of the 200-pound man was too much to support. The cross fell towards him, landing on his left arm, with a part of the horizontal stone of the cross, pushing his muscles and tendons out of his wrist like a squeezed toothpaste tube.
Then the cross fell completely on him splattering his brain across the floor. Quite disturbing, and definitely the most horrific and gore filled call I had ever witnessed."
Elderly woman is fused to her couch by copious bedsores
[ranking: 15]
"I heard this story from my father's friend who is an EMT. She responded to a call from a landlord who was unsure about the whereabouts from an older woman (I guess she wasn't paying rent). When they got there she had so many bedsores on her back she was healed to the couch she was laying on. I didn't ask details on how they managed to separate her."
Nude woman claims to be the Anti-Christ and sticks entire hand up her rectum
[ranking: 8]
"I was just getting off of work when a call goes out across dispatch saying that there was a possible overdose and that we needed to respond. We get to the scene and note nothing out of the ordinary... until we enter the home.
After asking where the patient is, we're escorted to a back room with a man exiting and re-buttoning his pants. We enter the room to a sheriff's deputy detaining a petite, naked woman who has attempted to jump out a window and has shit herself. She had flung both blood and shit EVERYWHERE.
She tells her mother (the owner of the home who had been very helpful), that she has a parasite inside her, and that she doesn't blame her mother for letting her father rape both of them. The paramedics then enter the scene and attempt to administer sedatives via IV to calm this woman who claimed the only drugs she was on were Prozac and a little weed.
The most memorable moment came next. In the moment that the deputy released her hand to the paramedics to administer the IV, the patient slides her entire hand into her rectum.
She then begins to spasm violently and tell us if we don't stop being racist she will smite us because she is the Anti-Christ, the harbinger of the end times."
Elderly woman is raped; refuses medical care to attend son's funeral
[ranking: 14]
"One particular call that I remember was getting dispatched to a 96-year-old female with rectal bleeding. It was almost 6AM, and when we entered the residence, the woman was yelling 'He raped me!' over and over again.
Finally, the story came out that she had gone outside to get her paper, and some guy had emerged and followed her inside, raped her anally, stole all her medications, and then fled.
I can't give away too many details, but I certainly believed what she was saying.
We were trying to convince her to go to the ER, and she was adamant that she would not go. We kept pressing her and then she said, 'My son's funeral is in four hours! I can't miss it.'
That moment really hit me hard. Never followed up with it."
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