ANNOUNCER:<i>
Tonight on</i> Nightwatch... Police, with a warrant! -(explosion)
-DISPATCHER: Units, be advised, it looks like the fire spread
from the initial structure. TOMMY:
Her lungs are full of fluid. She's way too short of breath. HOLLY: You got congestive
heart failure, baby? NICK:<i> I knew that
if we didn't get her</i> <i>to the truck immediately,
she could die.</i> Here we go again. Chevy, we're right behind him. No! Holy (bleep)! 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. Um, being an officer
during Katrina was tough. I saw things that I would
never want anyone in my life <i>to have to go through.</i> VICTOR:<i> I saw people's houses
in the street.</i> <i>You saw bodies in the street.</i> New Orleans paramedics, <i>they went from being responders</i> <i>to victims theirself.</i> HOLLY:<i>
Our house flooded.</i> <i>We lost all of our possessions,</i> family photos... Life as you knew it
is just gone. KEELEY:<i> Everything was under
water, and I can just remember</i> <i>being in the helicopter
and all of us just crying</i> <i>on the way to, uh,
to the Superdome.</i> And then we got
to the Superdome. There are positives to Katrina. It actually showed the world how strong New Orleans
can be as a community. Anybody that had means
to help, helped. We've always been a close city, and we're definitely closer, and, um, almost protective of...
of each other, a lot more so
than we used to be. DISPATCHER:
Our number's 3551. Code 3 in the Fifth. Fire at 2248. Can we wait on a Code 4
on channel one? BOUVIER:<i>
I'm goin' to a call.</i> It's a tree that fell on top of a car, and supposedly
the person is trapped-- either in the car,
or under the car... not really sure. Supervisor's reporting that
he needs the power companies and, uh, also needs
somebody from the city to come to cut the tree. Uh, he's reporting
that he needs rescue, so he must have
somebody trapped. <i>With, uh, Hurricane Katrina
ten-year anniversary,</i> <i>someone from administration
always has to be out</i> on these busy weekends
like that. <i>It's all hands on deck.</i> 6240's on scene. Hey, chief. What we got? BOUVIER:<i> I couldn't believe
the size of the tree.</i> <i>It was like, "Holy smoke!"</i> <i>From behind the driver's seat,</i> all the way to the back bumper,
was crushed. <i>It even blew out the tires.</i> He's conscious?
All right. All right. Can you crawl out?
Come on, crawl. -Just pull right here?
-Pull it... hold on here. 6240, patient's extricated. Let's get out
from under this tree, 'cause they said
it's not sturdy. Let's move to safety. <i>The driver of the vehicle
was so lucky.</i> <i>We were able to help him
to self-extricate.</i> All right, you want
to check him right here? Good. All right. Roll up. The whole board. Okay? -You ready? -Yeah.
-All right. -Okay. -BOUVIER:<i> He wasn't
hurt bad, but, you know,</i> <i>we have to take precautions</i> <i>'cause that was a lot of weight</i> <i>that came down and hit the car.</i> <i>He might not think he's hurt,</i> <i>so when he gets to the
hospital, they'll do X-rays</i> <i>and an MRI, and...</i> -Oh, yeah.
-(laughing) BOUVIER:<i>
This was a freak call.</i> This guy's gonna tell this story
for the rest of his life. <i>So are we.</i> -They stated he has a bad heart.
-Okay. -You know where we goin'?
-Yeah, well, what's that got to do with eatin' too much? TED:<i>
I would say that we get</i> calls that are Code 2s, which are just
the run-of-the-mill calls. We're gonna get there, he's gonna be havin'
a massive heart attack. <i>That 1 out of ten, probably,</i> when we get there,
it's like, "Okay, this is a whole lot more than we
thought we were coming to." Look, seriously? He's wavin' at us. Like something's
seriously wrong... I'm telling you,
he's gonna be coding. He ain't gonna be coding. Come on,
why you thinkin' the worst? 3220 on scene. What's goin' on, man? Your heart? They told us your stomach hurt -'cause you ate too much
or something. -Yeah. So when we got there, <i>I noticed that</i> <i>he was really sweaty,</i> <i>and that his heart rate,
in the hand,</i> was way too fast to count. Can you walk at all? Just hold steady. We'll get the stretcher closer. I'm gonna help you up. <i>When you looked at the guy,</i> <i>you could tell
that it was a serious call.</i> Big time. He was having some
serious breathing problems, some bad chest pains. Turn around, and you just sit
all the way back up here. There you go. <i>He needed care quickly.</i> -Let's get him in the truck.
-What's his rate? He's in AFib,
at, like, 150-something. One, two, three. GAVIN:<i>
When I realized that he was in</i> <i>a potentially lethal rhythm...</i> ...you start to kick
your gears in motion. <i>Teddy does his thing,
I do mine.</i> 190/98. Give him some oxygen. We start to evaluate,
ask questions. How old are you, Mr. Henry? You a diabetic? Where we goin'? Medicines start to come out. You take any aspirin? Chew these up. 3220, we're gonna be en route. What's goin' on, man? Nothin', man.
How you doin'? Now, who is that? -TED:<i> Your godfather?
-Yeah.</i> One more spray of nitro
under your tongue. <i>I give him the aspirin</i> and the nitro, try and help him
with some cardiac relief. <i>His blood pressure
was coming down.</i> His heart rate wasn't. <i>I decided I would
give him some Cardizem,</i> <i>try and slow the heart rate.</i> Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow,
slow, slow, slow. GAVIN:
New Orleans EMS, bringing you a 55-year-old male
with chest pain. Two sprays nitro, so far. Ten milligrams of Cardizem. No change yet. We're pullin' up right now. TED:
All right, come on in with us. (indistinct radio transmission) GAVIN:<i> We got to the hospital,
nothing had changed.</i> <i>Nothing I'd done had worked.</i> All right,
we're gonna get you out. -All right.
-Cool. GAVIN:<i>
Which way he's gonna go,</i> I don't know. TED:
9.9 out of ten times, that call is just gonna be 'cause somebody's got
indigestion or whatever. That man has some serious,
serious problems going on. They're puttin' the pads on
to cardiovert him. -Oh, really?
-Yeah. His godson, up front,
definitely credits this guy with keepin' him going straight. -Saving his life?
-Yep. Well, that's what
a godfather's for. Yeah, I guess so, man. I guess so. ♪ ♪ I know you want to get in there. -Let go.
-Look at that. Look at that. It would be nice to get out
a little bit, you know? What-what-what? (laughter) ♪ ♪ So, where were you for Katrina? HOLLY: We left, like, last
minute. We weren't gonna leave. -Oh, right, right.
-'Cause my dad was like, "Oh, this is gonna be like every
other hurricane." Yeah, yeah. A little wind,
a little rain, -and it's over.
-HOLLY: Yep. -So we lost everything.
-Wow. HOLLY:<i> You're not gonna come
across many people in this city</i> who weren't affected
by Katrina. Where were you? I went to pre-register
for school, and I lost everything. I had a book bag full of clothes
and that's it. Everything else, gone. It's all right now.
You bounce back. Yeah.
City's come a long way though. NICK:
Yeah. HOLLY:
So resilient. Which is not surprising. <i>It's the tenth anniversary
of Katrina,</i> <i>and the city is screaming
with joy over the fact</i> that we are still here, despite being
entirely underwater. We're still here. (walkie-talkie beeps) All right, fellas,
we're heading out. -Be good, man.
-Y'all be careful tonight. -Yeah, baby, we got to go.
-Bye, love. All right, y'all be good.
Y'all be careful, man. -All right, man.
-See y'all later. -See you later.
-Take it easy. All right, man. ♪ ♪ Getting it ready? (alarm bell ringing) (urgent chatter) Let's roll, fellas! Everybody in? <i>Ladder 8 en route.</i> KEITH:<i> We get dispatched
to a multi-alarm fire</i> <i>in a residential dwelling.</i> Anytime you ever work in fire <i>in a residential area, life
safety is always number one.</i> <i>Number two is keeping the fire
down as best as possible.</i> (siren wailing) They said four people was
actually trapped in the house, -got cuts trying to get out.
-Uh-oh. TITUS:<i> When someone is escaping
out a burning house,</i> they could go through a window. They could burn they're feet,
they're hands. <i>You could have a long array
of trauma injuries.</i> (sirens wailing) DAN:<i>
Oh, (bleep), son.</i> Ladder 8 on scene. -(sirens wailing)
-DAN:<i> Oh, (bleep), son.</i> We get dispatched
to a multi-alarm fire in a residential dwelling. <i>After Katrina, they had more
blighted houses around here,</i> <i>so this particular area
is prone for more fire hazard.</i> Just grab the nozzle! Grab the nozzle! KEITH:<i> By the time we got there,
the fire had spread</i> <i>to the dwelling on each side
of the original building.</i> Just right there. About right there. There you go. KEITH:<i>
We broke some lines</i> <i>and started to keep it in check</i> and protecting it
from catching even further. KEITH:<i> Fortunately,
the other companies found out</i> <i>that everybody was out,
or that the buildings</i> <i>were totally unoccupied, so
that relieved a lot of having</i> to go and search and rescue, <i>as opposed to just
attacking the fire.</i> 3220 in the area, look. TITUS: It's still simmering
a little bit. DAN:
Oh, yeah, I smell fire. TITUS:
Ooh-wee! Smell that! LL! DAN:<i> When we arrived on scene,
there were the occupants</i> that were in the house
when it caught on fire, <i>and they were able to escape.</i> Hello, dear. You got something
in your foot, boo? TITUS:<i> The only complaint we got
was her foot was hurt.</i> She might have stepped on
anything that was laying <i>on the floor
when she came out her house.</i> I don't see nothing. No, it ain't even cut, baby. TITUS:<i> So we checked them out,
and, thank God,</i> <i>there was nothing
physically wrong with them.</i> The only thing that was wrong
was they was a little upset. You know, it's understandable
that they were shaken up. They're house just burned down. -Could've been a lot worse.
-DAN: Yeah. TITUS: I'm glad you got out
though, baby, for real. I'd have been like, yeah-- I'd have been
coming through glass, too. I'd have been like
Superman that mother (bleep). -I'd have been jumping out.
-Right out the window, huh? (whooshes) I'm gone. -You don't like positivity!
-(laughter) You know what though?
He made you smile. -Right.
-That's a good thing though. KEITH:<i> No life was lost,
so it was a good feeling</i> <i>that we did our job.</i> <i>Unfortunately,
some property was</i> pretty much a loss,
but nobody got hurt. Ladder 8's in service
and available. DISPATCHER:
6249. KEELEY:<i> We got a call for
a male that's been stabbed.</i> I'm gonna roll out that way
and give the unit a hand. With a stabbing, you just don't
know what you're gonna get. 6220, on scene. It could be superficial,
and it could just be fatal. Patient contact, 6220. <i>I pull up, and I see this guy
laying in a huge pool of blood.</i> <i>There's just blood everywhere.</i> <i>He's been stabbed to his arm,</i> <i>and he's also got
a stab wound to his back.</i> Anytime you have any type of
penetrating trauma to the torso, we know immediately
at that point and time, he's gonna be
a trauma activation. <i>We have ten minutes
or less on scene,</i> <i>so we got to get him and go.</i> Do you take any medications
on a daily basis? Who is it that stabbed you? Oh. You need to find
some better friends. Oh, man. <i>He said his good friend
is the one that stabbed him.</i> <i>And he's actually more worried
about her than himself.</i> <i>He doesn't want her
to go to jail.</i> (man groans) (groaning continues) Ow! -Right around his kidney.
-Ow! (whoops) That's a couple inches wide
and deep. Yeah, we're gonna take care
of you, boss. Don't worry. Are you having
any trouble breathing? All right, lay... lay back,
lay back, lay back! Lay back, lay back. All right, baby, we're gonna
get you up to the trauma center, and they're gonna take
good care of you, all right? All right. Come on, y'all, we got to roll. <i>If the knife
penetrated his kidney,</i> <i>he could have significant
internal bleeding,</i> and can bleed to death
fairly quickly. He's got a big stab wound
right to the back. It's-it's definitely
right around the kidney. 6220, clear. -(siren wailing)
-DISPATCHER: 6220, clear. 2323. HOLLY: You know, I'm really glad
that we came up early to see all the second lines
and the tribute. NICK: Sometimes it's really good
to kind of reflect on how happy the city can be, -even in the face of all the
things it's been through. -Yep. You lose that when you work
nights for too long. Right, or we lose it because of
all the bad stuff we see. -Yep.
-Like, to see this is just, like, a breath of fresh air. We rebuilt,
and we're still here, -and we're resilient,
and we will persevere. -Yep. DISPATCHER:
3232, 6220. HOLLY:
From Tulane. DISPATCHER:
Copy, 6220. Looks like we got a call at
the 100 block of the Bourbons. I don't know if I feel like it's
gonna be a regular or a visitor. Uh, that's a good question. HOLLY:<i>
So we get a call for person</i> down on Bourbon Street. <i>And, of course, the thing
about Bourbon Street is</i> <i>that you never know
what you're gonna get.</i> Good thing they got the top care
coming to them. Oh, I see him right there. DISPATCHER:
Copy, 3232, 6220. Copy. Hi. What's going on? -DISPATCHER: 3220, go ahead.
-Hey. I met you before. -Probably. Yeah.
-Yeah. I'm doing all right, baby. Hey, you look good, too. What's wrong? (Nick whoops) Yeah. So you're having chest pain now? And I fell right here. Fell from the pain
or you tripped? Okay. All right,
we're gonna be all right. Yeah. NICK:<i> Anyone with
significant cardiac history,</i> it's very important
that you make a quick diagnosis to figure out
what's going on. Let's get your legs up, baby. One, two, buckle the shoe. Oh, you all right now? NICK:<i>
It could be life-threatening.</i> DISPATCHER:
3234, 2123. -So you're having chest pain
right now? -Oh, yeah. When'd you start
having chest pain? HOLLY:<i> The first thing
we want to do is get</i> a 12-lead EKG <i>to make sure he's not</i> <i>having a heart attack
right now.</i> -Ow.
-Crushing, stabbing, burning? -Stabbing.
-Stabbing pain? NICK:
We're gonna take care of you. You just got to relax
a little bit, all right? -Thank you.
-All right, real still for me. I'm gonna take a picture
of your heart, okay? Let me see your arm. -That hurts?
-Mm-hmm. -Like cramping?
-Mm-hmm. -Stick out your tongue.
-You're dehydrated -a little bit, huh?
-Oh, look at that. NICK:
What? Oh, Lord. You feel how dry your tongue is? And it's white, white, white. HOLLY:<i>
This patient's been outside,</i> <i>has been walking around,
it's hot,</i> and his 12-lead EKG comes back
completely normal. Blood pressure's perfect. I don't think it's your heart
this time. I think it's... -It's muscular cramping.
-It's more of, -yeah, muscle cramping.
-Because you're dehydrated. Once we were able to tell him that it didn't look like
he was having a heart attack, <i>you could visually see him</i> <i>immediately calm down
and relax.</i> NICK:
Well, the good news is, once we get you
some fluids up in here, you should be
back to good again. Big stick, don't move. I know, baby. -Yeah.
-Ooh. (laughter) Don't tense,
you got to relax, though. HOLLY:<i>
I love,</i> love, love, love, love, love when these guys crush on Nick. That's right. Ooh! HOLLY:<i>
And this patient loves Nick</i> because he's gorgeous,
so everyone's happy right now. 3232 <i>en route to Tulane.</i> DISPATCHER: 10-4. Nick? Tall and luscious! He's still tall
and luscious, though. He really is. <i>I think you might like him</i> more than his wife does. (laughter) What's up? Feeling better? -I got all you want, boo.
-Ooh! Let's do it. All right,
we going inside together. Let's do it. (chuckles) DISPATCHER:
10-4, I'll make note... BAX:<i> Major Case Narcotics
has requested us</i> to do two warrants. One's on 3rd Street, and the second house
is on Freret Street. JAY:<i>
So tonight we'll be executing</i> <i>two high-risk search warrants
for Major Case Narcotics.</i> <i>There are two locations
because they found out,</i> <i>you know, through their intel,</i> that the subject that we were
looking for, he goes in between
the two houses. VIC:<i> This is that guy that,
earlier in the month,</i> <i>he actually fired upon police</i> <i>when they tried to execute</i> <i>a search warrant for narcotics,</i> so this made the risk
even higher, 'cause we know he has the capability
to fire upon police. Jones, you're gonna be
taking Orea, correct? -Right.
-ALLEY:<i> Officer Jones and Hall</i> <i>are here
from the Sixth District.</i> <i>They're gonna assist us
with the perimeter.</i> <i>The two residences share
a backyard,</i> <i>which was wide open,</i> so they're gonna have to secure
the backyard. <i>Generally,
any type of narcotics warrant,</i> <i>when they're selling drugs,</i> <i>they have guns
to protect the drugs.</i> You know, they get ripped a lot, <i>so they don't know
if it's the police</i> <i>or some guy trying to rip them,</i> so it makes it
a real dangerous situation. JONES: I was the first one
through the door the last time, when they shot.
He shot at us, uh, with a .357 Magnum, so it was really, really loud. JAY:<i> We try to have
all our angles covered,</i> <i>make sure that, you know,</i> that nobody's hiding around, <i>trying to take any shots
at the team.</i> 'Cause this area
that we're going to has a lot of abandoned houses, a lot of overgrown lots
still from Katrina. BAX: Get your minds right. VIC:<i> Once we get to that stop,
we know it's on.</i> <i>Everybody becomes serious.</i> <i>We tell each other, you know,
"Hey, man,</i> <i>look it's time to get it.
Put your game face on."</i> And it's the point
of no return right here, so we getting ready. Tag on three! Tag on me! One, two, three! Tag! BAX:
Let's go, let's go. JAY:<i> Hitting two houses
at the same time,</i> <i>it's kind of nerve-racking,</i> <i>'cause once you're there,
hitting the first house,</i> obviously,
everybody in the neighborhood pretty much knows
that you're there. -Come on, people.
-Police with a warrant! -Police with a warrant!
-Police with a warrant! -Go.
-25 in. Come out! -Let's see your hands!
-Let me see your hands! JAY:<i> So tonight we're gonna
be hitting two houses</i> <i>for Major Case Narcotics.</i> BAX: Let's go, let's go. JAY:<i> About a few weeks ago,</i> <i>Sixth District Narcotics</i> <i>tried to do a search warrant
at this house,</i> and the guy ended up shooting
at them through the door. -Police with a warrant!
-Police with a warrant! Police with a warrant! -Go.
-25 in. Come on! -Let's see your hands!
-Let me see your hands! JONES:
Come-come to me! VIC:<i>
Once we entered the house,</i> <i>we were able to spot the guy
in the second room.</i> -Come to me, now!
Keep coming, now! -Get down! VIC:<i> He gave up. You know,
there was no shots fired</i> when we hit the door
like he did the other team. <i>I mean, I don't know if he saw,
you know,</i> <i>what type of toys
we might have had with us,</i> <i>but, you know, he gave up,
which was a good thing.</i> All right, we're gonna be moving
to the secondary location. ALLEY:<i> Even though we got
the target in the first house,</i> the search warrant's written
for both houses. Ready to roll! ALLEY:<i>
The element of surprise is gone</i> <i>for the secondary location.</i> <i>So they all know something's
going on over there.</i> Yeah, we ready? JAY:<i> Moving up
to that second location,</i> <i>we already scouting it out,</i> <i>trying to see
if anybody's peeking</i> <i>or if anybody's outside.</i> <i>It was intense,
'cause you know they waiting.</i> <i>So at that time I know
that I really have to be ready.</i> Police with a warrant! Let me see your hands! Come to me! Come to me! -Hands up!
-Get your hands up, baby. Hands up, hands up. -Anybody else in the house?
-Anybody else in the house? Thank you, B. 25 in. Go, go. Go. I said, "Come out, come out.
Police!" Come to me, come to me! -Let me see your hands!
-Hands up! Keep coming! Come on! VIC:<i> We didn't really
have a problem.</i> <i>Everyone gave up,
so it was a good day today.</i> <i>Thank the Lord that nobody
was hurt on his end,</i> <i>and nobody was hurt on our end,</i> <i>so it was a win for us.</i> JONES: Went better than the
first time we hit it. (laughing) I'll tell you that. JAY: It went off smooth.
It went smooth. Called the lady out. Other person was hiding
back there in that back room. -I'm glad everything turned out
all right. -Yeah, man. What I say, man?
You never know. No, I know. You never know. JAY:<i> It feels good having
this guy off the street.</i> <i>Hopefully, they'll keep him
in jail for a while</i> after this incident. ARKADY:<i> You were working here
ten years ago,</i> when Katrina hit, right? Yeah, I think I'd just made
my one-year anniversary. We were posted downtown
at a hotel. I could see the river
from where we were. <i>That's when you could see
the water start to creep up</i> towards the middle, and once it finally met
in the middle, and the whole street
was flooded, that's when we realized, like, "We got to find some
higher ground, quickly." And so the closest place
was the dome. We didn't know where else to go. I don't think people realize how tough it was on us, though. No. How truly difficult it was seeing your city under water, and sucking it up and staying, 'cause a lot of people
didn't stay. -It's been tough, you know?
-And everything you knew, everything was under water. Nobody thought New Orleans
was ever gonna come back, and here we are,
ten years later, <i>and we're back.</i> <i>So we are going
for a female short of breath.</i> TOMMY:<i>
Shortness of breath can be</i> one of the most wide-ranging
calls you get. ARKADY:
3235, on scene. TOMMY:<i>
Something as simple as anxiety,</i> <i>or something as serious</i> <i>as congestive heart failure,
heart attack.</i> ARKADY:
There's an apartment? TOMMY:
In the back? All right. We got to find out quick,
if this is critical or not. DISPATCHER: 3235, there was
no age on the caller. ARKADY: Are we supposed to be
going up these stairs? TOMMY:
Upstairs? Why wouldn't it be? Let me find out how bad this is. Apartment A. -(knocking)
-Hello. I see the patient sitting
on the couch. <i>Oh, (bleep).</i> (woman coughing) Her lungs are full of fluid, <i>she's hunched over,</i> and she just cannot move
any air. She's way too short of breath. PATIENT:
Oh, Jesus! TOMMY:<i> I knew
that if we didn't get her</i> to the truck immediately,
she could die. Come on, baby. TOMMY:
Let me find out how bad this is. We get a call for an elderly
woman who's short of breath. (woman coughing) Oh, (bleep). Her lungs are full of fluid. 'Kay, she's all diaphoretic. <i>I knew that if we didn't get
her to the truck immediately,</i> she could die. I'm gonna pick you up and carry you downstairs, okay? Come on, baby. ARKADY:
Tommy's carrying her down, guys. -DISPATCHER: All right, 10-4.
-Oh, Jesus. (coughing) TOMMY:
I didn't get a history. She just had an inhaler
in her hand. I just took one look at her, felt her, and carried her out. (coughing) She needs to be in a truck
on oxygen immediately. ARKADY: You got congestive
heart failure, baby? ARKADY:<i> Once she's on the
stretcher and in the truck,</i> <i>and I get my first</i> really good look at her,
it's not good. You ever had that machine
that blows air into your face? -Uh-uh.
-All right. Sometimes when
you put 'em on a mask, that's just not enough.
They're not able <i>to breathe in enough oxygen.</i> -(coughing) -KEELEY: All right,
lean back for me, baby. She was full of fluid, so we went to our CPAP. All right, ma'am, it's gonna be
really tight on your face, okay? Uh-huh. -(moaning)
-I know. I know it's tight, okay? <i>The CPAP is</i> an oxygenation machine that forces oxygen
into your lungs. ARKADY:
Just work with it, okay? Let it work with you. TOMMY:
I know it's really tight. ARKADY:
Let it work with you, okay? It's continuous
positive airway pressure. KEELEY: I gotta try and get a
little IV on you real quick. You having any chest pain? -Yeah, she said she was.
-KEELEY: Okay. I'm workin' on her pressure.
It's gonna be through the roof. TOMMY:<i> When I put the blood
pressure cuff on her...</i> 300's the highest
that we can go. 280/140. I'm leaving that on there
to get a repeat. <i>It's a high
blood pressure emergency</i> <i>that can cause a stroke,</i> <i>it can cause heart failure...</i> It is incredibly important
to get that patient to the hospital immediately. -Come on, Tommy.
-All right, you get it. ARKADY:
I got it. Go ahead. ARKADY: Just keep workin' with
the mask, Miss Carol, okay? -(moaning)
-I know, my baby, I know. We almost there, okay? We almost there. TOMMY:<i>
We got there quick.</i> <i>We got to her fast.</i> <i>We got her
to the hospital fast.</i> <i>It is 100% safe to say</i> that we saved this lady's life. There is no doubt about it. ARKADY:<i>
Keeley did her thing.</i> <i>Tommy did his thing,
I did my thing...</i> We're a very, very good group
of medics working together. TOMMY:<i> That's one of
the highest blood pressures</i> I've seen in a long time. -Yeah.
-That thing was thumpin'. -What was it?
-It was... I said 280/140. Well, they're gonna BiPAP her. They'll get her taken care of. Whoo. Well, good job. ARKADY:
Thank you. You, too. Psych. -You (bleep)!
-I'm just kiddin'. (bleep) you.
I'm not doin' that. Still kiddin'. ARKADY:
See, he did that to me earlier! ALLEY:
There's one right now. -JAY: There they go,
right there. -Yeah. JAY:
Did they go out over there? -They probably got the phone
call already. -Mm-hmm. JAY:<i>
They're always out there.</i> <i>It's, like, kind of an
abandoned area from Katrina.</i> <i>They race their cars,</i> show off their cars. <i>They can get into wrecks</i> <i>or hurt somebody
that's spectating.</i> I think they got
the phone call, brah. They got the cars comin' back. ALLEY:
Yeah. JAY:
Oh, there it is, right there. Look, they got cars already
lined up, up there. ALLEY:
Mmm. -You ready?
-(whoops) (sirens wailing) (horns honking) Oh, there it goes. Scattering like roaches. <i>The Fast and the Furious!</i> Ain't losing no pink slip today! Ooh. He (bleep) his car up. Geez, look at this friggin' dent
on the side. -Look at that.
-I know. Oh, brah... Golly. He hit that left pole
right there. JAY:<i> There's just too many
people out there.</i> <i>I mean, you can't
just stop one.</i> <i>I mean, it's not
gonna do anything,</i> so we just turn
our lights on, siren, <i>just make sure
they all break it up.</i> ALLEY:
I used to be out there. Back in the whip. I didn't race or nothin'. Just hangin' out? (indistinct radio transmission) Oh... We were patrolling the Seventh
district at the time, and we see this car coming down, <i>it was missing a headlight.</i> ALLEY: It has a bug out, too.
Bright bugged out. JAY:<i> So we decide
to make a traffic stop.</i> <i>As soon as we turn
our lights on, you know,</i> <i>he pulls over to the side,
like he was gonna stop.</i> <i>We see him looking
through his rearview mirror.</i> (engine revs) Here we go again! Takin' off, brah. When they just take off
like that, for no reason, <i>seven out of ten times,
probably,</i> is that's a stolen car. Chevy, we're right behind him. 10-28, for a second. It makes it a real
dangerous situation. He's accelerating
away from us now. Ooh, he twentied out. (bleep) Behind a vehicle... JAY:
Oh, he twentied out. No! Holy (bleep)! (crashing) (engine revs) Here we go again! JAY:
Taking off, brah. ALLEY:<i>
During a routine traffic stop,</i> the driver pulls over to the
right-hand side of the road. <i>As soon as we're basically
going to get out, he takes off.</i> He's accelerating
away from us now. JAY:<i> He might have
just committed a crime.</i> He might be possibly armed. Or it might be a stolen car. 10-28, for a second. (bleep)! (brakes screeching) No! Holy (bleep)! DISPATCHER:
Give me your location, 3420. Goddamn people. See your hands!
Now, see your hands! Let me see your hands!
Let me see your hands! Open that door! Crawl out. Crawl... Crawl out and
keep your hands right there. Right where I can see!
Right where I can see! Get on the ground.
Get on the ground! Come on. ALLEY:<i>
I'm approaching the vehicle,</i> <i>taking the passenger out.</i> They both seem too old for this. Hey, man! I told that (bleep)
boy to pull over, man! Man, you (bleep)! -Calm down.
-Damn, brah! All right, hey, he ain't got
nothin' to do with this. Stop, stop, be quiet! Passenger's immediately
screaming about he was telling
the driver to stop, and "I don't know
why he did that." He ain't got nothin'
to do with this. -He really didn't.
-All right... Hey, man, I'm not
gonna tell you again. All right, all right. Rosemont is Code 4. All in all,
it was a pretty chaotic scene. Why you runnin', brah? JAY:
Traffic attachment? <i>If that was the only reason
he was runnin' for,</i> <i>that's stupid.</i> So, for a (bleep)
traffic attachment, you put everybody else's
lives at risk. I'm sorry, man. He could have ran over somebody
drivin' like that, or he could have killed
somebody out there. Damn, brother! -Hands back.
-He didn't have nothin' to do with it, sir.
He told me to stop. -(bleep)!
-Oh, this is amazing. JAY:<i> It could have been
an easy traffic stop.</i> You know, he would've probably walked away with a ticket. Come on.
Talk a walk, fellas. <i>Now, this guy's going to jail
for everything he did.</i> Which car he hit? -Right there.
-That one? You almost killed that woman. That was y'all?
Y'all okay? All right. And I'm hollerin',
tellin' this man, "Man, pull the (bleep) over!
Pull over!" <i>We're going to a male...</i> With a high sugar. How high? The notes say that the caller states
his blood sugar is 600. Wow. 600's pretty high. Yeah, it is. 3235 on scene. -You call?
-MAN: Yeah. What's goin' on? Okay. Okay. ARKADY:
I got you. We goin' this way. <i>We don't carry insulin,</i> <i>so our treatment is</i> give him some fluids and get him to the hospital where they can get them
the proper medication. What hospital have you
been to before, Ryan? TOMMY:
All right so, earlier today, did you check your blood sugar? You did? What was it, earlier today? What time was that at? Okay. And you took
your insulin tonight? What time did you take
your insulin? (groans) Shh, shh.
Relax, baby, relax, all right? I'm in. When was the last time
you used any opiates? -Okay.
-All right, so where we goin'? Ochsner may need us. -All right, Ochsner Main.
-Yeah. TOMMY:<i> High glucose
can be really damaging</i> <i>to your whole body.</i> From head to toe. You can actually have a seizure and ultimately die <i>from your blood sugar</i> <i>being too high for too long.</i> TOMMY:<i> Eventually,
if you get tired enough,</i> <i>you can go into organ failure,</i> <i>it can lead
to cardiac arrhythmias...</i> It can lead
to a number of things. <i>I'm just worried about
blood sugar being that high.</i> Has it ever been
this high before? What's the highest it's been? Wow. How long ago was that? Seven years old? Wow. So you've always had a problem keeping your
blood sugar in line? Yeah. <i>So how long ago
did you move here?</i> Oh, so you were here
for the storm? Uh-huh. Complete devastation. Yeah. You know how tough
that was hearing that? From someone who's lived here
almost his entire life. And-and people are
seriously questioning whether or not we should
rebuild this city. TOMMY:<i>
Golly.</i> DISPATCHER:<i>
3232...</i> I want to see what this is. 10-4. NICK:<i> We get a call
for a pedestrian struck.</i> And that's usually
pretty serious. 3232, put us
in the area, looking... Oh, that might be
the car that hit him. Oh no, they hit him. NICK:
I got you. HOLLY: He's got an obvious
femur fracture. (man groaning) HOLLY: 3232. We got
a one trauma activation. (groaning) We get a call
for a pedestrian struck. HOLLY: He's got an obvious
femur fracture. NICK:<i> You look
at the car, you see</i> that he rolled up on the hood,
smashed the windshield out. -(groaning)
-HOLLY: You speak English? MAN (groaning):
Yeah. NICK: You remember
everything that happened? (groans) You remember getting
hit by the car? -(groans)
-HOLLY: Hold on, bae. Hold on, be still. Oh, yeah, dude, it's jelly. NICK:<i> Broken femur definitely
can be life threatening.</i> You got some shards
of bone that are sharp, and you have arteries
that run up and down your leg. NICK: We got obviously
a deformity. Obvious femur fracture. So if you cut that artery,
chances are, you're gonna die. He's got a pretty good hematoma
to the back of the head too. MAN 2: Can you hear me, man?
Know where you are? -Sir, what's your name?
-MAN: Simon. All right, sorry about
your leg, brother. NICK:<i> You have to worry
about internal injury.</i> You have to worry
about blood pressure. <i>You have to worry about
bleeding out internally.</i> Things that you can't see also. Put your leg down, sir. -MAN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
-Uh-uh, don't pull. So what happened, baby? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. How fast do you think
you were going? Okay. Are you okay? Do you need to go to the
hospital by ambulance? Okay. KEELEY: Let's go.
Time's ticking away, baby. Let's go. HOLLY:<i> At this point,
the big priority is</i> <i>prepping him
for the trauma center</i> and getting the hell
out of there. KEELEY: Give him a GCS of 14
and noth... not less. MAN:
Oh, no. HOLLY: Keep...
No, no, no, be still. Be still. (man groans) -Be still!
-MAN: No, no. -You all right?
-(groans) All right. -Are you ready, Nick?
-NICK: Yep. NICK:<i>
To the university.</i> <i>Let's go.</i> KEELEY:<i> We're gonna talk
and work, baby, talk and work.</i> <i>(man groans)</i> TITUS:<i>
The tenth anniversary.</i> <i>You know, we never really
talked about your experience.</i> <i>Whatever actually
happened with you?</i> Well, you know I was living
with my parents then. You know, we put some
cinder blocks and stuff under the furniture
and stuff, thinking that if
the water came up, it wouldn't get
no higher than that, you know? Right. And, uh... I don't know,
just waited like everybody else. Next morning, dude,
it was over your head. I mean, it was, you know,
ten, 12 feet of water. Man, I can't believe it's
the ten-year reunion of Katrina, and I'm still driving
down this street, the same street that I walked
in chest-high water. (radio alarm sounds) I think that's the first time
I ever seen my dad cry. -Yeah.
-When he l... Yeah. When he lost all his (bleep)
in that (bleep) storm. Yeah. Dude, my dad broke down
too in a hotel room. That (bleep) was like... <i>I mean, this big strong man.</i> DAN:<i> I imagine your dad
was a lot like mine.</i> <i>Like, that's just something
that you don't see.</i> DAN:<i> A call comes out
for an elderly lady</i> <i>with leg pain and leg swelling
at, uh, an assisted living</i> <i>that we pick up patients at
pretty commonly</i> because, uh, there's
a large elderly population that lives there. TITUS:
Hi, baby. I'm gonna take care of you. Don't even sweat it. Do you have any chest pains
or anything? Only thing you is having... All right, what I'm gonna
do is, we gonna do... I'm-a check your heart;
I'm-a give you the whole thing. DAN:<i> She is an amputee,
she has lost her legs,</i> <i>and she's having,
like, some swelling pain.</i> Hey, look, I'm-a take
a picture of your heart. How old are you? 24, 25? Not you. Not you. DAN:<i> When she says
she has chest pain,</i> <i>that kind of goes along
with the leg swelling,</i> so this could be an issue
of-of all the fluid backing up into her heart. You was here for-for the storm? With your... Oh, you were with
your children before the storm. -Oh, you was in the Superdome?
-Oh, okay. So what we doing
for this anniversary? Just something you don't want
to think about or...? I know. See?
That's what I say too. I'm tired of seeing it. Brings up a lot of bad memories. I always tell people
when they ask me about it, uh, I say, "I want you
to just go home and just throw
everything you have away." Right, and see
how you feel about it. -And let me know how you feel.
-Baby pictures, diplomas. All that stuff. TITUS: Were you an amputee
before Katrina, baby? After? Infected, and it didn't
want to heal. Aah. So you had to walk through the water,
in that filthy water, and it got...
so you had to amputate your... All right... now, you about to make me feel
a certain type of way right now. You done brang my work home. -Yes, man.
-Who's little man? Come on.
That's your grandma? Come on in. Love you! That sound like my mom. Too much for you. -Thank y'all so much.
-No problem, ma'am. Hey, look, we gonna run up
to Baptist, all right, Mom? -All right, thank you.
-All right, no problem. <i>I think a lot of people
have scars from Katrina,</i> <i>be it physical,
emotional, mental.</i> <i>This lady gets up every day</i> <i>and is reminded of that day</i> <i>every time she looks
where her legs used to be.</i> I just... it's just amazing
that she lives with that. This city is our city. <i>The first responders
of this city</i> <i>is the people that make
this city run smooth.</i> And without them,
it would be Katrina times ten. -I got 120 systolic.
-We out the door, man, let's go. DAN:<i>
Police, fire and EMS,</i> <i>what we do is reminiscent
to that of...</i> the New Orleans culture--
we just help people. KEELEY:<i> I just have a connection
with the people in this city.</i> I mean, these are my people. I got you, baby. We like one big gumbo pot. <i>We all mixed in, we all
come together for the good.</i> -Police with a warrant!
-Go on, do it. KEELEY:<i> I want to help them.
I want to joke with them.</i> <i>I want to cry with them.
I want to hug them.</i> -He's reachin'.<i> -To be
a first responder in this city,</i> I think it takes a lot of guts. -Oh, dude! 108!
-(gunshots) You gotta be a little bit crazy. -I have the end of your finger.
-Don't drop it. Yeah! GAVIN:<i> We're adrenaline junkies.</i> It doesn't look like it entered. <i>When you are there, you know,</i> right when somebody's heart
stops, right when they get shot. It's a high that
you can't recreate. -Wait a minute.
-Oh, my God! <i>You don't wanna see people
get shot,</i> but do I love being there in the rush and the thrill
of the moment? Oh, yes, I do. It makes you feel like... <i>a superhero.</i> He's definitely impaled
on the fence. You go rob somebody... Every little crime I prevent... ...or you go murder somebody... <i>...every bad guy
I take off the street...</i> Stop the car! <i>-...and I catch you...</i>
-Stop the car! best feeling in the world. -(indistinct radio transmission)
-(cat snarls) Do I feel like a hero? It's not about the thank-yous. No. NICK:<i> I wouldn't call us heroes
or angels by any means.</i> KEELEY:<i> All right,
we got patient contact.</i> We got to get her
on the stretcher, baby. I can't create miracles. <i>I can only hold God off
for so long.</i> <i>If you don't believe in God
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