The following story was posted on the Hope Rescue EMS FB Page on September 2:

It’s not often that we get to see a patient’s progress from actually witnessing the accident, then emergency treatment, transport to two hospitals (2 hour ordeal), diagnostics, the surgical procedure, casting, discharge, getting dinner together with smiles, and finally the long drive dropping them home. Sure, almost eight hours with one patient. Certainly a far cry from EMS optimal efficiency. But the way we see it, we got to spend time getting to know another family. And we got to work with the rescue medics of the city of Taytay. Kudos to you guys if you’re reading this! And the best part, remembering the smiles of the patient and her family as opposed to the screams and tears and forceful grip of a victim.

Our team is actually on skeleton crew because of quarantine. That leaves just two of us available to respond. So today was supposed to be a light day for swab testing and Covid transport. We also picked up an oxygen tank we lent out and had just refilled three of them. But we accidentally left them at the car wash where we had the ambulance disinfected. Before we could make the U-turn to go back and get them, we happened upon the hit and run. Had we been carrying the tanks, there wouldn’t have been room to cater to a patient. I thank God for little mistakes like that.