(sirens wailing) ANNOUNCER:<i>
Tonight on</i> Nightwatch: <i>-(cheering)</i>
-Happy New Year! It's gonna feel like somebody
punched you in the chest. (screams) Did you see anybody
running this way? MAN:
He... He down the street. ANNOUNCER:<i>
In the city of New Orleans,</i> <i>there are as many as 1,000
emergency calls every night.</i> <i>These are the stories
of the heroes</i> <i>who risk their lives
to answer those calls.</i> <i>Police officers...</i> <i>firefighters...</i> <i>and emergency
medical technicians.</i> (siren wailing) <i>This is</i> Nightwatch. (siren wailing) HOLLY:<i>
New Year's Eve.</i> <i>Not our easiest night,
by any stretch.</i> <i>Even though
some of the calls</i> <i>can make for some
really good stories.</i> <i>For us, it's not
about the champagne,</i> <i>countdowns and kisses.</i> <i>It's about
everything else going on.</i> <i>And making sure
everyone comes out okay.</i> (fireworks popping, whistling) (indistinct radio chatter) NICK:
Hey, boo boo. HOLLY:
Hey. Funny seeing you here. -I know, right? (chuckles)
-What's up. How you doing? -Good.
-Yeah? HOLLY:
New Year's. -NICK: So you know what that
means tonight? -Yeah, it means <i>it's probably gonna
be a catastrophic night.</i> <i>The start of New Year's night</i> usually just feels like
a calm before the storm. (crowd yelling, whooping) NICK:<i> Any holiday,
anybody in this job</i> <i>knows not to say the "Q" word.</i> Once you say "quiet"
all hell breaks loose. (whooping) DAN:<i> Well, with big crowds
come big problems. Big crowds</i> <i>draw a lot of drinking.
You get drugs</i> <i>out on the street and all</i> <i>the other troubles that
come with it.</i> It can be taxing on our service. KEELEY: 6266, what area are you
looking again? What-what's he supposed to be
wearing? -Stop walking in front
of them, you... -(laughs) HOLLY:<i> People are just gonna
get drunk to party, but...</i> <i>the world is still turning.</i> <i>People are still
gonna get sick,</i> <i>they're still gonna get food
poisoning, they're still gonna</i> have heart attacks, you know? Strokes don't stop
on New Year's Eve. TITUS: Dude, they're
giving us a call, -man, come on, let's go.
-A'ight. People still need us. GAVIN:<i> I was offshore.</i> <i>And since the oil prices
started dropping,</i> contracts started going down, so I came back to New Orleans. -HOLLY: What's up, boy?
-What's up, girl? I see you got your
land legs back, huh? Yeah. They let me go. Ooh, you got a little
chunky out there. -They feeding you good?
-Hey, hey. -Three times a day. Steak twice.
-Yes, indeed. -So what's going on?
-Well, I'm back. For a little bit. You miss me that much? -Well, we had to get
on the same shift. -(laughs) HOLLY:<i> I knew Gavin
was gonna be back.</i> I told Gavin
he was gonna be back. And, I mean, you know,
this-this place is... it's your family.
It's very easy to come back to it.
It's what you know. -Who they got you with?
-I been with Paige. -That's right.
-GAVIN: Who you with? -Nick.
-Manning? -Yeah.
-He's as good as me? Uh... You don't...
You really want to go there? -No. (laughs)
-It's different. It's different,
but it's working. It's a good partnership. Not one
that I would have expected. <i>Paige can work with anyone.
I guess</i> the only thing I would
tell her is, you know, if Gavin starts to get
a little attitude, sometimes you just got to pluck
him right in the nose. <i>But he'll be just fine.</i> All right, babe,
well, I'm going to work. Good to see you.
All right. Y'all have a good night.
I'll see you. Oh, yeah. RANDY: Tan Altima. 10-4, we're heading that way. (siren chirps) Somebody's vehicle
just got jacked. Yeah. The call came out as... <i>stolen vehicle.</i> What's wrong? You-You had a... You had a-a... Nissan Altima?
Which way did they go? How many subjects? JUSTIN:
Where was the car parked at? Right on the side,
on two? All right. It was on pump two. RANDY: What all
you had in there? 694, okay, I got a plate
on that Altima. JUSTIN:<i> Then we have to put
the car out as stolen,</i> <i>because at any point,</i> any officer in the city
could, you know, run that plate and know that
the vehicle is stolen, so that's the first thing
we need to do. DISPATCHER: It's a 94. JUSTIN: They have 94s.
Got gunshots. <i>While I was on the call
investigating,</i> another call came out.
It was a shooting <i>not too far away
from where we were.</i> (siren whooping) (indistinct radio chatter) (siren wailing) DISPATCHER:
Code 3 and a third was fired. En route. So we're going to a gunshot wound to the chest. -HOLLY:<i> Great way to start
out the New Year. -Yep.</i> 34S. Gunshot. That's the car.
Look at that thing. Ooh, ooh. No way.
What's the make and model of that, uh, vehicle? <i>It's not uncommon for people
that steal vehicles to go</i> commit other crimes. -That, uh, stolen vehicle, huh?
-Yeah. It's probably gonna be
a perpetrator vehicle, too. You see him? NICK:
He's in the house. -(man yells)
-Is he awake at all? NICK:<i> There was a gentleman
laying on the floor</i> <i>in a house, got
a gunshot wound to the chest.</i> <i>People that were in the house
did not know him.</i> Apparently he had
came up to their house after he had been shot, <i>rang the doorbell,
knocked on the door</i> <i>and they were
nice enough to let him in.</i> HOLLY: Okay, we're gonna
carry you out of here. -Stretcher's ready?
-NICK:<i> Luckily for</i> this gentleman,
he knocked on the right door. RANDY:<i> I guess he was
running and they were</i> <i>shooting at him...
and some kind of way,</i> <i>he made it
all the way over here</i> <i>in this lady's door,
where he collapsed.</i> HOLLY: Put your arm in;
move your arm. Come on, babe. -Aah...
-Sorry, my man. -Just got to get you on here.
-HOLLY: Pull him up. NICK:<i> Unless you brought
your X-ray goggles to work,</i> <i>you don't know what's
going on inside. Bullets</i> <i>ricochet in weird patterns.
You never know what it hits,</i> <i>so you gotta treat every
bullet wound with the fact</i> <i>that he probably gonna
have to go to surgery.</i> -(man grunts) -Slow down,
deep breaths, all right? See your scissors? HOLLY:
No problems breathing, right? You do? -HOLLY: Mm-hmm. -NICK: Yeah,
man, you gonna be all right. HOLLY:
Give me a 16, prep. Vinegar. Are you feeling hot, like you're
about to pass out? Okay. -Just take slow, deep breaths,
okay? -Yeah, you got to relax. Don't move your arms,
don't move your arm. He's starting to move like
he's getting hypoxic, though. <i>We knew that he was not</i> <i>breathing well at all. He was
definitely lacking oxygen,</i> <i>um, which is what
we call hypoxia.</i> There's no taking your time
on that. You want to do what you
got to do, and get him to the hospital
as quick as you can. All right, we out. <i>3232...</i> <i>Code 3.</i> -Is that blood?
-Blood, yeah. Man, it's all the way down
there? That's where it started? Yeah, yeah, wait till
you see down here. He started running this way.
This vehicle got hit. -Damn. -This one took two
through the windshield. JUSTIN:
Ooh. RANDY: Got a casing
and stuff over there. That's that nine millimeter. That's the high point. Yeah, that's a nine.
That's what our girl said she had in her car, too. We ain't found her car yet,
but we... everybody's looking, everybody's trying
to locate it, so we'll see. Hopefully we can find her car, hopefully,
we get some DNA off of it. He told me he was coming from the barbershop,
just heard a shot, -got hit and then ran.
-No idea where it came from -or nothing. -Yeah. But I looked
at the X-ray and it just hit and shattered everywhere,
so it's probably a hollow point. Yeah.
We found out the bullet actually
tore up his spleen. And he had to go
into surgery immediately. <i>He's got a long road
ahead of him.</i> -You ready?
-NICK: Yup. (siren blaring) DISPATCHER:<i>
3229.</i> <i>Here you have a 51-year-old
male with flu-like symptoms.</i> GAVIN: We're going to an old guy
with flu-like symptoms on Touro Street. You know, is Touro up here? -GAVIN: Touro's actually a
couple of streets over. -Okay. -Up at North Robertson...
-PAIGE: Robertson... and Villere's up here. GAVIN:<i> Paige is seemingly
real innocent.</i> I'm definitely not.
(laughs) <i>I think Paige has been here
about eight months.</i> <i>I'd say we're opposites.</i> <i>I don't know. I've only worked
with her a couple times.</i> We're still kind of getting in a
groove of feeling each other out <i>and getting that...
that good flow going.</i> (siren blaring) GAVIN: Come out
before we all get a wet ass. PAIGE:
All right, who are we here for? (muttering) Feeling bad?
What's going on, brother? -(man groans)
-What's bothering you? Oh, man. Everything? Well, let's get you
to the front door so we can get you
on a stretcher. <i>We got the call
for flu-like symptoms.</i> <i>I notice he's struggling
to breathe a little bit.</i> It didn't look
like a flu to me. So, prostate cancer, gallstones, kidney stones--
what else we got? Have you been feeling bad
all day? Nice and slow breaths
for me, okay? You got heart problems, brah? GAVIN: Well, I had
to give you some medicine, slow your heart down. It's gonna feel like
you're on an elevator and it drop--
just gonna make you feel funny. <i>His heart rate was, like,
180 to 200.</i> <i>We gave him medicine
called adenosine to try and...</i> <i>break that rhythm and bring him
down to a normal rate.</i> PAIGE: He still hadn't budged.
He's still way up there. You want the other 12,
or is it pads time? : I'm gonna call U.H. You ready to go? Yeah. Time to go. GAVIN: New Orleans EMS,
University. I'm bringing you a 52-year-old
male, short of breath. Heart rate 180 SVT. No change with six and 12
milligrams of adenosine. I'll put the pads on him,
'cause his pressure's dropping. He didn't respond
to the adenosine. <i>Once the medicine didn't work,
we go to cardioversion.</i> <i>We place the pads on him,
set it at 50 joules.</i> <i>The electricity
about to hit him will slow</i> <i>that heart rate down.</i> All right, Mr. Joseph, I got to get you out
of that heart rate, okay? So I'm gonna have to hit you with a little bit
of electricity. It's gonna feel like somebody
punched you in your chest. -All right?
-Mm. -Okay?
-(machine beeping) (screams) GAVIN:
All right, Mr. Joseph, -I got to get you out of
that heart rate, okay? -Mm-hmm. So I'm gonna have to hit you with a little bit
of electricity. It's gonna feel like somebody
punched you in your chest. <i>This patient has
a really high heart rate,</i> <i>and if we don't get it down
quick enough,</i> <i>he could go
into cardiac arrest,</i> <i>so we have to shock him
a few times</i> <i>with some electricity and try</i> <i>to stabilize that heart rate.</i> -(screams)
-Easy... Easy. Got one, uh, cardioversion
with 50 joules, no change. 10-4. (beeping) Doc wants one more, okay? -Oh, Lord, no.
-I know. One more. -(yells)
-Easy, easy. Oh, Lord, no more
of that (bleep). That's it. That's all
the doc asked for. (bleep) Absolutely no change with 100. DISPATCHER:
Okay, just bring him on in. GAVIN:<i>
It's not easy when you know</i> <i>you're hurting a patient.</i> <i>They're already in pain.</i> <i>You don't want
to make anything worse, but...</i> <i>doctor's orders, and...</i> had to do what was
in his best interest. GAVIN: No break.
Cardioverted twice. -PAIGE: Ready?
-Yup, I'm ready. GAVIN:<i> He ended up having
sepsis, which is, basically,</i> <i>if you have cancer, you tend to
be really prone to infection.</i> <i>Your immune system's down,
and when that infection</i> gets too bad for your body
to control, <i>it can actually cause
what's called sepsis, which...</i> <i>It's a pretty big problem.</i> DAN:<i>
My New Year's</i> resolution is to lose weight. I'm a fat ass.
Try to get summertime-ready. Got to get my ab...
my six-pack popping back. Get my body ready to show off and wear my RootSuits
and (bleep). What the (bleep) is a RootSuit? -(laughs)
-TITUS: Well, just, uh... that's a...? Like a mankini. Like, it's just like a thong. Whatever you (bleep)
think about. Think about root,
like, just a little suit -for your (bleep) root.
-TITUS: All right. DAN:
You ain't never heard that? No. I call mine a tree. -(laughing)
-(alarm buzzing, blaring) DISPATCHER: 3220, a 20-year-old
male, possible shot at the location. DAN:
En route. (siren blaring) TITUS:
What's up, man? You all right? DAN:
How you doing, my man? -(Bleep).
-Where he hit you, man? He was about your height, or
he was a little taller than you? RANDY:<i> Blood is everywhere on
the floor, and I see this kid</i> <i>just laying down.</i> <i>He is breathing, he is talking,
so that's a good thing.</i> <i>Then we realized that
he wasn't shot, but they</i> pistol-whipped him, which still
is trauma to the head. RANDY:<i> Two kids get off the bus,
decide they want</i> his iPhone.
He didn't want to give it up. <i>They hit him
a few times with the...</i> butt of the gun. Like around how old you think? -About 16... or 15?
-One of those. Yeah. All right, dude--
look, we gonna do some things, put some stickers on you. DAN: Gonna start
a little I.V. on you, man. You'll feel a big stick, okay? And we'll get you
all taken care of. And if anything, man,
if you start feeling funny in any way, just let him know,
all right? Do you need anything,
or are you good, bro? No, I'm good, man.
We can roll. (siren wails) DAN:<i> So, did you see
what he hit you with?</i> <i>It was definitely a gun?</i> Okay. He shot it, as well? All right. That's crazy, man. Look... Hey, getting hit
in the head is a lot better <i>than getting shot, right?</i> TITUS:<i>
3220. We're at the hospital.</i> Hey, dude, I talked to his moms
on the way in. Dude, I'm just so glad
that she was there. Said the kid...
She heard the shot, right? She comes outside. Her son is tussling
with the kid. I mean, as a mother, dude,
I can't even imagine me seeing, like, a guy
with a gun to my kid's chest... -Yeah. -...and he's about
to pull the trigger. -Right. -Like, she was, like...
she was, like, "I didn't know what to do. "Do I run over there
and bump him? Do I run back in the house,
call the police?" She said the only thing
that came... She couldn't move,
but her mouth was open, and she, like,
"Don't shoot my son." All right, baby,
maybe, you know, the guy had a little humane
in him, 'cause he ain't
pull the trigger. <i>And this kid was catching the
bus home to be with his family.</i> For that to be taken away in a
matter of seconds over a phone? Man, that's not right. <i>That's not what
this city's about.</i> DENNIS: George, do you want
to try your move? -Huh?
-DENNIS: Do you want to try that stripper move
that we were talking about? -No. -DENNIS: No, you don't
want to do that? MAN:
That would be pretty cool. I'd pay good money to see that. How much you talking about? (laughing) DENNIS:<i> George is...
He's the fill-in captain,</i> and he has a way
of making everybody laugh. I mean, I think
we could round up probably -a dollar a man in this room.
-GEORGE: A dollar?! This is a million dollar
body here. -(laughter)
-This is a Ferrari body. We don't have Ferrari money.
We are firemen. Give me a beat. (laughter) DENNIS:
Come on. You got to do
the potty-belly spin. Pot-belly spin? (guffawing) There you go. There you go. There you go! (laughter, alarm ringing) We have a car accident,
gentlemen. (siren and horn blaring) Car flipped. DAN: It was supposed to be
a Jeep flipped over, I think. Injury is located
directly in front of the bar. (siren blaring) How the hell
you flip over your car, and you haven't even got
on the interstate yet? (speaking indistinctly) Damn! -(siren wailing) -GEORGE:<i>
How the hell do you flip</i> over your car and you haven't
even got on the interstate yet? DAN:<i>
There's supposed to be a...</i> a jeep flipped over, I think. TITUS:<i> I mean, New Year's Eve,
it wasn't, like,</i> <i>a big surprise that</i> a car supposedly flipped over
in the middle of the street. -Man, they sure did.
-Yep. All right. DENNIS:<i> This car is flipped over
in the middle of the road.</i> We need to make sure
that no one's trapped or hurt inside of it. DISPATCHER:
3231. DAN:
Anybody in it? DENNIS:
Yeah, the keys are in it. GEORGE:
No. Ain't nobody -in there at all.
-DENNIS: She said he rolled out, he jumped in that white car. -He just ran out of the car?
-Seriously? -Yeah. -Yeah. That white car that's going
around the corner right now, -he's in that.
-Okay. DAN:
No occupants in the vehicle. Uh, some bystanders
are saying that... the driver of the vehicle just
left in a different vehicle. He said he was drunk... so,
I mean, that's reason enough -for some people to abandon it.
-Yeah. They say your boy was limping,
bleeding, or anything like that? No, he just told me.
He was, like, "Hey, he's rolling out
in that white truck." There we go. God (bleep),
there's a lot back here. If I could get
in this mother(bleep). -Uh-huh.
-(grunts) -He left his phone.
-They got another one. -Where you see another one at?
-Look. Right in the front -right here.
-Uh-oh. This... Uh-oh. -Was he texting and driving?
-Let's see. That's it.
That's what it is, huh? Oh! "Don't ever -call me again."
-(laughter) That's what it says? "Don't ever call me again.
Please!" He said, "What?" If I got something like that,
I'd get pretty teed off myself. -Oh, he received that text
message. -Yeah. Oh, here it is. "Stay the (bleep) out
of my life." -(laughter)
-This dude has class. I'm gonna let your boys get back
to do what y'all do, man. GEORGE:
All right, baby. Y'all be good out there. What's going on, my man? DAN:<i>
It's up to NOPD</i> to come remove the vehicle
and call a tow truck. <i>At that point,
it's-it's done for us.</i> TITUS:<i>
Got the little man's name, bro.</i> He talks like... (squeaking)
You know? He got that high-pitched voice. (Bleep) captain now. (Bleep)
That's all right. HOLLY:<i>
New Year's Eve helmet safety!</i> -And selfies.
-I've got to do something with this.
This is not... DISPATCHER:
10-4. Yes, ma'am. Becca's been wearing hers for the last two hours. -Oh, man.
-Let's get this over with. -Helmet on, sir.
-Oh, God. DAN:
Oh, this is so heavy. HOLLY:
You know, only in New Orleans do you have to wear a helmet for an hour,
on New Year's Eve... Yep. ...because of stray
falling bullets. Yep. I wonder if I just walk
in my girl's bedroom, man, with a helmet and some socks on. -(laughing)
-DISPATCHER: 3227. KEELEY:
6266 at Rampart and Orleans. Think it's gonna be a few
minutes before we get a unit. We spending the stroke
of midnight with random people
I don't even know. DISPATCHER:<i> 3232.</i> Go ahead. -(siren wailing)<i> -Our first call
on New Year's, Nick,</i> -will be... a drunk.
-A drunk person. NICK:<i>
Go figure.</i> REVELERS:
Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! -(cheering)
-(band plays Dixieland jazz) (off-key):
♪ Happy New Year, Nick! ♪ I love you -Love you, too, boo.
-Oh, the pretty fireworks. KEELEY:
Ah! Oh, there it is. -There it is.
-CHRISTIAN: Happy New Year! Yay. There we go. He went to sleep, it was 2014. And he woke up, it was 2015. (chuckles) -(siren wailing)
-Hey. It's Keeley. (chuckles) Protect your cranium! All right, first things first. -Happy New Year.
-Happy New Year. -Happy New Year. Mmm!
-Happy New Year. NICK: So who couldn't make it
to New Year's? HOLLY:
I've seen him before. -CHRISTIAN: You have?
-Yeah. He looks like your kind of guy. HOLLY: Your mom looks like
my kind of guy. You couldn't
handle my mama, baby. -NICK: Oh!
-(laughs) Be my first call
of the new year! Best start to the new year ever! -See about this.
-Later. RANDY: It's holiday season time,
you know? -A lot of robberies.
-Yeah. On robbers. A lot of those.
What they're doing is they, um, are sticking up people.
Th-They're robbing people as they're walking by. -People need things.
-Want things. <i>Want</i> things.
Will<i> get</i> things by any means -they say... they see fit.
-Will<i> take</i> things. Robbing some-someplace
or someone. <i>They will get what they want.</i> (indistinct radio dispatches) (siren wailing) JUSTIN:<i>
Somebody just put out a chase.</i> -We're close in the area.
-Yeah. RANDY:<i> A call came over the
radio that a unit is chasing</i> <i>a pair of armed robbers that
held up two women at gunpoint.</i> We hear
it's in our area, and we... jump into it. (radio communication continues) JERAIRE:<i> All available units
have been called</i> <i>to assist with the foot pursuit</i> of two armed suspects,
and we head to the scene. Oh, well. <i>On our way to the scene, one
of the other units apprehended</i> <i>one of the two suspects,
a man in a red hoodie.</i> <i>Now we're hunting
for his partner in crime,</i> <i>a man in a white hoodie.</i> -Turn it off.
-♪ Oh, where ♪ ♪ Oh, where did
the criminal go? ♪ ♪ Oh, where,
oh, where he may be? ♪ Excuse me. Did you see anybody
running this way? I would say
that he's back in there. JUSTIN:
694, we're on scene. Brown, go around the other side
of this house. It's gonna be
a black male subject wearing dark-colored jeans.
95G. Go back inside.
Go back inside, ma'am. JUSTIN:<i> When we're chasing
someone, it's like the ultimate</i> <i>game of hide-and-seek.
We pretty much try</i> <i>to put ourself in their shoes.</i> Where would I hide? You know?
Where would I go? Yeah, right. Yeah. Nope. Clear. Where would you go?
There's nothing back there. There's no exit on that side. Unless he got inside
the building. -That parking lot.
-Huh? There's a parking lot here. There's a parking lot.
Right there. Right. <i>We have to be extremely
cautious when searching</i> <i>for a subject around dark
corners.</i> <i>We know he's armed.</i> <i>We know he doesn't want
to be found.</i> I think he's in here. Jeraire, he-he down the street. Stop! You got to!
You better stop! Stop! JUSTIN:<i> We got a call
to assist in tracking down</i> <i>two armed robbery suspects.</i> <i>The first guy was caught
as we arrived on scene.</i> <i>We're on a hunt
for the second suspect,</i> reportedly wearing
a white hoodie. I think he's in here. WILLIAM:
Jeraire... he-he down the street. Turn around! Shut up, man. -Good job, fellas. -All right,
we got a Code 4 on it. Good job, baby. Good job. Put us on that subject.
It's Code 4. What you running from? What are you running from? You staying here? Why did you ask her that? So, why'd you ask her? Mister... I'm gonna tell you you have the right
to remain silent. Anything you say can
and will be used against you in a court of law. (panting) -Good job.
-I don't give up, buddy. He was hiding in there,
in the parking lot. Got you. We're looking for maybe
a white sweatshirt, and maybe a gun. JUSTIN:<i> Our suspects were caught
without weapons on them,</i> <i>so now, we're hunting
for the weapons</i> <i>that they reportedly had
on them.</i> I got the sweater.
Got the sweater and the gun. RANDY:
They got it? I love this work.
I love this work. Dropped the gun? (chuckles) -Ooh! Standard clip.
-Oh! Standard magazine. One in the chamber. -Yeah, one popping
in the chamber. -Yeah. Still was ready to go, though. All right, so, we got us
a .45 with extended mag-- Glock. Yeah. Teamwork makes the dream work. I was just about
to say that, man. HOLLY:
We are getting a call. NICK:<i>
Friend fell on a fence</i> and cut her belly button. Ew! NICK:<i>
32 enroute...</i> -What you doing on a fence?
-HOLLY: The way the note sounds, -like, this sounds legit.
-NICK: Right. -You know where...? -I mean,
I've seen people fall on fences, -and it's bad, so...
-HOLLY: Exactly. 'Cause we had so many of those,
like, wrought-iron fences -with the spikes at the top.
-NICK: Yeah. Yup. That's not good. 3232. We're on scene. -Pull the stretcher out.
-Yup. I would let you know
in just a second, baby. What happened, sweetie? -(woman groaning)
-Oh, my God. Okay, okay. No, no, no,
you're gonna be just fine, okay? I want you to calm down.
I don't want you to cry right now.
I need you to stop crying. -Hey, boo.
-Take some deep breaths. -You're gonna be fine.
-Calm down, all right? -No, you're not.
-No, baby, you're not. -You're gonna be just fine.
-That much I promise you. -All right? -You are not gonna
die-- what's your name? HOLLY:<i> This patient was trying
to climb a wrought iron fence,</i> <i>and she kind of slipped
down on to it,</i> <i>which caused her to have two
really long lacerations</i> <i>to her abdomen.</i> Come on. Give me that. You're gonna be just fine, baby.
Come on, relax. HOLLY: Hey, listen. Listen, you
don't want to use your abdominal muscles right now, so you need
to take some deep breaths. NICK: All right,
so we're gonna pull you up. HOLLY:
Calm down. <i>This patient is obviously
very distraught.</i> <i>We need to keep her calm.</i> <i>You know, the more she's using
her abdominal muscles to cry,</i> <i>the more she could potentially
injure herself.</i> -NICK: No, you're not.
-HOLLY: No, baby, you are not. NICK:
You're gonna be just fine, baby. It's just adipose tissue.
It's not your intestines, okay? Couple stitches,
everything is gonna be fine. -I've seen way worse, trust me.
-NICK: Listen... NICK and HOLLY:
Baby, you are not gonna die. HOLLY:
What had happened is, that spike went right through
your skin and came right back out, that's it, that's it. NICK: It didn't even go
into your intestines, boo. It's just skin tear, that's it. HOLLY: And they're gonna
make sure that... I wouldn't lie to you. You're gonna be just fine, okay? Just relax. HOLLY:
Y'all ready? Let's go. (siren blaring) NICK:<i>
3232 en route to U.H.</i> HOLLY:<i>
Oh, she is</i> extremely, extremely lucky
that she wasn't impaled by it. NICK:
Yeah, I mean, the worst case scenario for her is an infection
from the nastiness -that was on that fence.
-Yeah. Yeah. Uh, girls. (Nick laughs) -Hello? -What were you doing
on the fence? What is she gonna do,
Tweet her scars? Nobody wants scars like that--
no girl. They're not gonna ask about
that, they're gonna be, like... -NICK: I would just make
up a story. -"Two kids. -At least two."
-Make up some kind of story. HOLLY: I wouldn't want that.
Well, you know what? Me being me, I would want that. I'd want, like, eight
of them, though, and be, like, "Dude, my...
I went like this on the fence." (laughter) (siren blaring) DISPATCHER:<i>
3232, stand by for a code...</i> DAN: We're going on
a little car accident on I-10. I am always working
New Year's Eve. Either, I'm working
New Year's Eve night, or I work New Year's Day. I don't like being on the road
late, man, on New Year's Eve. -Right.
-DAN: You know, if I'm off. So, that's why we usually
stay around the house. Too many people out
making bad decisions on New Year's Eve, man. TITUS:<i>
Just having fun, man.</i> -(indistinct radio chatter)
-That's it, right there. Um... dude, pull up in front
of that car and take the lane. (Bleep) cars are flying. <i>Dan and I pull up, we notice</i> <i>it's in one of the worst
possible places</i> <i>on the interstate
that a car could be stalled.</i> <i>So, the first thing
is our safety.</i> Got to watch the traffic. What's going on, baby?
You was in that, right? They over there? -DAN: Hey, darlin', you okay?
-(baby crying) Why can't you walk? What hurts? All right. All right, I need you
to just sit down next to him, and we're gonna get some stuff
and get you taken care of, okay? TITUS: How many babies
they got in there? Hey, little man, look, I'm gonna
get you out the car, all right? DAN:<i> It's chaos.
There's kids in the car.</i> <i>There's blood all down the side</i> <i>of the passenger side
of the vehicle.</i> We're all going
to the ambulance. <i>The person that was driving</i> <i>was apparently
driving her friend</i> <i>to the hospital in haste,</i> <i>because she sustained
some injury of some sort</i> <i>that we're unaware of.</i> -(baby crying)
-Oh. All right, all right. But in that haste, she's flying
down the interstate, ends up wrecking her car. -(baby crying)
-Oh, I know. <i>The kids that were involved
in the accident</i> <i>weren't in a car seat
or wearing seatbelts,</i> <i>so when they had the impact,
you know, they were kind of</i> <i>thrown around inside the car.</i> You got
to keep your legs straight. WOMAN: I can't.
I can't straighten it. TITUS:
You can't straighten it? WOMAN:
No. (screaming) (woman screaming, wailing) TITUS:
I got you. I got... I got you. -(woman shrieking) -All right,
baby, baby, baby, relax! WOMAN:
I want to stand on my leg! TITUS: Look, look, we got, we
gotta keep your legs straight. -You can't straighten it?
-Mm-hmm. We get this call
for a motor vehicle accident <i>involving a woman
and her two small children.</i> TITUS: Where is it hurting--
at the bottom or the top? Where at? Right here? (screaming) Don't... All right, all right.
Actually, she have a femur. Say, Chief? <i>She's gonna need X-rays
to confirm,</i> <i>but my best guess is</i> <i>that this patient probably has
a femur fracture.</i> That's a serious,
serious trauma. <i>There's a lot of arteries
that run through that bone.</i> <i>As soon as we walk
in the hospital,</i> <i>she will go straight
to surgery.</i> All right, all right, ma'am. (woman shrieks) I'm gonna do a little I.V.
right here. Don't move. TITUS:<i> The kids have
no major injuries.</i> <i>They might have had a couple
of bumps and bruises,</i> <i>but nothing that they can't
pop back from.</i> I'm ready, Woody. TITUS:<i> The driver-- she had
some extensive trauma injuries.</i> <i>Definitely not how you want
to start your New Year's off,</i> <i>but, I mean, you look
at it this way--</i> <i>it could've been
a lot worse.</i> (siren blaring) Man, look at this. WOMAN:
That should have been mine... VICTOR: Look like they had
a big right right here. That's probably why
they shut the party down. That dude running out
with hair in his hand. You know there a fight.
Look at all that hair. I'm gonna swing in front.
I want to see. <i>It's at the end of the night
on New Year's Eve.</i> <i>People start stumbling
out of clubs.</i> <i>People been drinking too much.</i> <i>Fights are bound to break out.</i> <i>That's why
we're out patrolling,</i> <i>helping to keep the peace.</i> You all right, ma'am? You was fighting? WOMAN:<i> I was just having
a good time</i> -in a bar, okay?
-DYLEN: Do you need EMS? I understand that. They pulled my weave
off of my hair. Oh, that was your weave
that was walking out the...? -Yeah.
-Oh, Lord. Uh, y-you got a purse
or something? WOMAN: It-it was lost
in the fight. You got somebody you could call
to come get you or something? How you gonna get home? Well, l-listen. Walk back, walk back
to the club, we-we gonna follow you. We gonna get you your stuff. VICTOR:<i> Uh, she really wanted
to go back to the club</i> <i>to see if she could
find her purse and her keys.</i> So, at that point, we told her
we would follow her back to the club so no one... <i>nothing happens to her.</i> DYLEN:
What up, big timer? It's gone? Her keys and everything? -Huh?
-And jacket? Y'all didn't take that girl
purse out of there? What purse? I didn't have
nothing to do with that. She was fighting me for nothing. She didn't even know
what she was fighting. Oh, so you the one that...
all right. WOMAN: No, she was just
pulling my hair. I was just trying
to break it up. -Oh. -She was just pulling
my hands, though. -I've got nothing to do with it.
-Okay. DYLEN:
That's the wig, right there. Is that the wig? They say your keys gone
and the purse. We found out
that she was the instigator, according to the security, <i>and the people that was
working the door.</i> ...low-budget-ass club. DYLEN: We'll get you
to your house, come on. VICTOR:<i> Still felt bad for her
'cause she couldn't get home,</i> <i>and we didn't want nothing
to happen to her.</i> <i>And once we learned
that she stayed in the area,</i> <i>we decided to, you know,
help her get home safe.</i> They don't like my style,
they don't like my spirit. You heard me?
I'm comfortable in my skin. What's that say
on her dress? "I'm... my own medicine..." VICTOR:
"Guess who sick haters". -"Guess who sick..."
-"Haters". Watch-Watch yourself. (laughing):
Shut up. No, she's not. I can't take this, bro. (suppressed laughter) -Oh, Lord.
-WOMAN: All right. -VICTOR: All right.
-Thank y'all. And stop making them dresses,
'cause they cause problems. -All right, yeah.
-Knock on your door. It was nice to meet you. (whoops) It's the night life, bro. -They see it all.
-They right. (siren wailing) TITUS:<i> Call came out for a</i> <i>pregnant female,
imminent delivery,</i> <i>which means she could
deliver any time,</i> <i>and I'm excited,
being a father-to-be,</i> you know,
it's something that you want to see, you know,
the miracle of life. My son come, I want
to have that group, Creed, that song "Arms Wide Open," playing as soon
as I deliver him. So how hot is that? You and this (bleep),
seriously, it's got to stop. <i>I am typically a...</i> "get 'em in the truck
and let's go" <i>type, when it comes to
women and delivering</i> <i>their children.</i> TITUS: How you doing, baby? Who's going, "Ooh-woo"! We have a New Year's baby coming tonight, y'all. DAN:
What number is this for you? That thing look low.
Come on, let's go. TITUS:
That thing look real low. DAN:<i>
After the first pregnancy</i> <i>that they deliver,
the rest of 'em</i> just... they come out real fast. So I prefer that to happen
in the hospital, not in the truck with me. What hospital are you going to? Ochsner Baptist. TITUS:
That's too close. I'd rather your hospital
be a little distant. -I feel like delivering one.
-WOMAN: Ooh, ooh. That belly look -bigger than you, ma.
-TITUS: I know. I-I think that belly coming. <i>This woman looks like
she's about to explode.</i> And I was ready to go--
pop the gloves on, I was ready to deliver. You said it's number
seven or number... Mm-hmm. Ooh! Ooh... DAN: Titus...
turn on that monitor real quick, and we can
go right to the Baptist... Now, we gonna-we gonna
have this one back here. -DAN: No, we not. -All right,
all right, all right. Don't push, don't push,
I'm just playing. Are you having one right now? Yeah, are you having
a contraction right now? They seem to not stop.
They just keep going? Oh, yeah. Ooh. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! -You got that look.
-(woman shrieks) -WOMAN: Ooh...!
-DAN: Titus... -What? -Turn on that monitor
real quick, and we can go
right to the Baptist... Now, we gonna-we gonna
have this one back here. -DAN: No, we not. -All right,
all right, all right, don't push, don't push,
I'm just playing. DAN:<i> It's her seventh pregnancy
and that thing is ready</i> to come out, like, let's go. Are you having one right now? Yeah, are you having
a contraction right now? They seem to not stop.
They just keep going? Oh, yeah. Ooh. Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! -You got that look.
-(woman shrieks) All right, we gonna
have to take a look, ma. -Nah. We're not.
-We're not-- so she ain't...? Her water ain't broke. Water ain't broke,
there ain't nothing coming. -That's true.
-DAN:<i> I've gone through</i> <i>a neonatal resuscitation
program,</i> <i>my wife works in the neonatal
ICU and, I mean,</i> I see the things
they deal with and, I mean, we're just not equipped <i>to deal with children
that deliver prematurely.</i> DAN:<i> My partner don't like
to talk about it,</i> but he expecting his first one
coming, so he always all-all about
these pregnancy calls. He want to, he want
to get his hands dirty and see what's going on
before his come in, you know? -Yeah...
-So... <i>He don't want to admit it,
he a little nervous about it.</i> <i>You could probably
give him some good advice, huh?</i> TITUS:<i>
3220, we're at the hospital.</i> Hold it in, ma--
don't let the thing out, yet. I say let it out, ma,
let it out. I told you, he just want
to get his hands dirty. I'm rooting on it. I told her that you've been
looking to, uh, practice -since you got one on the way.
-I, no, hey, look... I definitely would have let you
out a quarter, like a football. DAN:<i> One of the biggest
attributes</i> <i>that you need
to master working here</i> <i>is staying cool and collected.</i> <i>You walk into these scenes,</i> <i>and people are looking
at you for help.</i> And the best way
that you can do that is pretty much walk in there
with your head held high, and say, "My name's Dan. "I'm a paramedic with
the City of New Orleans. And I'm here to help you today." HOLLY:<i> When you talk
about EMS, fire...</i> Let's hump it,
let's hump it! <i>...and police in New Orleans...</i> Police!
Let's see your hands! ...you are talking
about the best. -(howls)
-(laughs) <i>What we do is not simple.</i> Through and through,
D in the back, man. Straight through the cords... HOLLY:<i>
We run ragged for the residents</i> <i>and the visitors
of New Orleans.</i> He is breathing,
and he does have a pulse. <i>Whatever they need us for,
we run ragged for them.</i> You better stop! (siren wailing) VICTOR:<i> There's just
something about my city...</i> <i>by being in the city,
you take a love to the city.</i> You love where you work at. I love this city. <i>You know, we just try
to keep it safe.</i> -There it go.
-All right, it's on. I feel like this is
a humanitarian's job. I enjoy helping people. I love people, I love dealing with people, and I love helping people. I don't know, man,
I like feeling like what I do makes
a difference. <i>New Orleans
is a resilient city.</i> <i>-It is a tough city.</i>
-100 percent! <i>It's a city that no matter
what you throw at us,</i> <i>whatever it does,
we can come back from it,</i> and hopefully
we come back stronger and better than we were before. WOMAN: I will say a prayer
for city, because one day,
this rain will have to stop falling on New Orleans. HOLLY:<i> I don't know how it is
everywhere else,</i> <i>but I know here,
we are like a family.</i> Aw... <i>We have pride in not only
ourselves but in each other</i> <i>and our service and our city.</i> <i>And it's very much a family.</i> -Very good, my man.
-I love you. Without family, you got nothing. DISPATCHER:<i> Adam is 3551--
3-55-1-3.</i> <i>2-3 in the central fire,
at 2248.</i> <i>Wait on Code 4 on channel one.</i> -TITUS:<i> Hey, what's going on?</i>
-DAN:<i> Hey.</i> TITUS:<i>
Brother man!</i> No problem, big daddy. DAN:<i>
New Year's has brought</i> a new part of the family for EMS as well as for my partner Titus. TITUS: He's not even
24 hours old. Still got the new-car smell. (all laugh) His name is Tanner Owen Tero. WOMAN: So how'd y'all decide
on Tanner? Uh, all the boys' name
in my family has T.O.T. <i>And this is a great kid,
you know.</i> <i>Has my nose and my eyes,
so, you know,</i> no blood tests here, you know. (laughs) -Cute.
-Oh! My little tater tot. That's his nickname. -Tanner tot?
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