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Roy.

Ha!

Good one.

OK, now I want you to stretch real

big so we'll know that you're just beginning a new shift, OK?

If you don't mind, I'd like to just--

Tr-- tr-- trust me just trust me, all right?

Give me a stretch, all right?

Oh, Roy, give me a stretch, you know, like that.

Like that.

Ready?

Well, that's not quite what I wanted, but-- I'm too close.

I want you to look at something.

This was in Sunday's paper.

It's the supplement.

Look at that. - Yeah.

"A Day in the Life of a Cop."

Yeah, I saw that.

Well, did you see this?

Right there, photos by Officer Jerry Slater.

Uh-huh.

Yep, I get the message.

Well, why not?

I mean, I can take better pictures than this,

and there are people who want to hear about the paramedics, too.

OK, have you talked to the guys out there?

Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.

They're thrilled about it, thrilled about it.

Now come on into the kitchen.

You're going to miss some of the best stuff.

All right.

Roy.

Good one.

INTERCOM: Battalion seven.

Squad 36 is 10-7 at Grand Park Hospital.

OK, guys.

Now wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Don't drink yet.

Don't drink yet.

Too close.

Hey, Gage, is this going to take long?

Need you ask?

All right, just, guys, have patience with me, will you?

Let's see.

That's about, oh, about 10 feet-- so 10 feet.

That's ASA is 125.

Let's see.

Flash at 64, divided by 10 feet, which is 6-4, 6-4 and-- there's

no 6-4.

That would be about 5-6.

That would be about 5/6, 5/8, no, 5/6 and 8.

Right.

OK.

Very funny, guys.

You guys are real funny.

All right.

I'll be a little faster next time,

so just help me get this one, all right?

Guys.

Marco, Marco.

[alarm sounding]

INTERCOM: Station 51, Engine 90, Engine and Truck 127.

Structure fire, 9th Street Elementary

School, 1130 South Street.

Station 51, KMG 365.

Well, so much for the relaxing little coffee shot.

[fire engine siren]

Engine Larry, Engine 51, bring us our lines.

Squad 51, put on your airmasks.

[fire engine siren]

Hey, you pull that and Roy and Jenning can take it in.

Marco!

Let's get us a line on the roof, pal.

[police siren]

Johnny, give me a hand!

- Where'd he come from? - In the [inaudible] room.

He must have [inaudible] the sirens.

How is he?

Don't know.

I'll call us an ambulance.

All right.

He's getting a pulse of 120.

Johnny, he's in respiratory arrest.

INTERCOM: Engine 51.

Fire under control.

All units out in one hour.

INTERCOM: 10-4, Engine 51.

Rampart, this is Squad 51.

And Dr. Vasidily is screaming bloody murder.

Go ahead, 51.

ROY: Uh, we have a male patient approximately 15 years of age.

He's in respiratory arrest from smoke inhalation.

We've got a carotid on him and inserted in an airway.

DR. BRACKETT: 51, can you give me the vitals?

The BP is 80 over 40.

The pulse is 150.

51, have you checked the color of his tongue?

ROY: It's affirmative.

He's cyanotic.

What's you ETA?

Eh, the ambulance just arrived.

About eight minutes.

OK, 51.

Start an IV with D5W and bring him on in.

ROY: 10-4, Rampart.

Dix, will you check and make sure we've got a room clear?

Yeah, right away.

DR. EARLY: Dix.

Yeah?

On those chest X-rays I told you about--

Yeah?

--didn't I asked for a PA and a lateral?

Yeah.

Well, they only sent down a PA.

I'll get right on it.

Captain, give us a hand with the oxygen.

Roy, this is Mr. Robinson, the school principal.

We reached him at his home.

Do you know him?

It's important we get a hold of his family.

No, I don't know him.

He might have attended school here when he was younger,

but I don't know him.

We'll see if we can reach his family.

You taking him to Rampart? - Yeah.

OK, we'll let you know if we find out anything.

Thanks.

Goodness, I certainly hope he'll be all right.

I think he will.

Want to take a look at this damage?

[ambulance siren]

We're set up in Room 3.

Any change?

He's unconscious, been breathing on his own

for about four minutes. - Good.

Get his vitals and draw the blood for a CBC.

Come on.

Let's get him [inaudible].

Thanks for lying down.

OK, now, you just go right in here.

Dr. Early will be with you in a minute.

- Dixie. - Yeah?

Ms. Andrews asked me to give this to you.

Oh, yeah? What is it?

Well, remember that OD patient yesterday that was doing

all that kicking and screaming? - Oh, yeah, the one that bit me.

Well, she came back this morning and lodged a complaint.

She said that we were mistreating her.

You're kidding.

Sorry.

Some kind of morning.

Hey, Dix.

Smile.

No.

Well, that'll be a great picture.

What's the matter with you?

You got about an hour?

No.

Cheer up.

Today's payday.

Aha.

That reminds me.

Squad 51, respond to Station 68.

Fireman down, apparent heart attack.

Time out 8:55.

Squad 51.

Hang in there, Dix.

Hey, Vince, how you doing?

OK.

Help yourself.

You know, you remind me of a man who's

about ready to lose his job.

Just had a school fire.

Kid that started it couldn't be any more than 15 years old.

They got him in the ER room now, smoke inhalation.

Another case of vandalism, I suppose.

You've got it.

Well, sometimes repairing their bodies is the easy part.

Yeah, well, you know, I look at my own kids.

They seem to be doing OK, but I see so many youngsters go off

the deep end.

It's too bad we can't inoculate

them against bitterness.

Yeah, well, at least we could get to them a little sooner

while there's still time.

Oh, speaking of time, I've got to go back to work.

But, uh, cheer up, Vince.

It's like the man said.

You can't win them all.

And don't I know it.

[glass shattering]

I'm warning you now.

I'll kill you if you don't let me out of here.

Settle down.

Come on, son. Take it easy.

I'm just trying to help you.

Yeah, sure.

Get Dr. Morton in here.

I said let me go.

Mr. Robbins?

Yes, this is Ms. McCall in Emergency.

Right.

Look, your computer shorted my check $30 again.

Well, that's three weeks in a row.

No.

He won't let me examine him.

I ain't telling you guys nothing and I mean nothing.

No, let him go.

Let him-- I can see what this picture is.

Let him go. Come on.

He's a-- come here.

I can take him, really.

You OK now?

Yeah, I am.

Come on.

Let me have him.

I get him.

All right.

Just you and me.

Now, what is your problem?

Bet you already dropped the dime.

Calling the police isn't my business.

Taking care of you is.

Aw, stop shining me on.

Nobody's looking out for me but me.

And it looks to me that you're doing a lousy job of it.

Oh, man, you've got it easy here, so it's easy for you

to sit back and judge.

Even easier for you to feel sorry for yourself--

I mean, too easy.

And when it does, it makes your brain go to sleep.

Yeah, and what do you know about that?

A lot more than you think I do.

You just sold out.

You sold out-- yourself, your parents.

Now you just leave them out of this.

They've got enough problems.

That's right.

Look here, young blood.

This is the 70s, and it is time you put your program together.

My program together?

Where did you learn to talk like that?

Same place you did.

Now, we going to stand around here talking about where we

coming from all day, or you going to get

down to where we're going?

Dr. Morton?

What is it?

Willie's mother's here.

Willie!

Oh, mama.

Oh, Willie, what did you go and do?

You see, Willie?

She's the one you really hurt every time.

Oh, mama.

Oh, son.

Oh, mama, it's going to be OK.

Give me kisses.

Everything's going to be OK.

- Oh, Willie. - It is going to be OK.

Come here. Come on, come on.

It is going to be OK. Please.

Step out.

It'll be all right.

It'll be all right.

He's gonna be fine.

Please.

[siren]

Captain?

He's in the bay room.

Who is it?

It's Bob Taybord.

The boy's having him an O2.

- Well, what happened? - Well, we don't know.

He was standing by the stove one minute,

and the next minute he had these real bad chest pains.

He just all of a sudden doubled over?

Bob?

Bob, can you hear me?

This is Roy DeSoto.

It's my heart.

Hey.

I'm really sorry, you guys.

It's OK.

It's OK.

You just relax.

Let's give him 20.

Rampart, this is Squad 51.

Uh, Rampart, we have a fireman down with

acute pain in his mid-sternum.

The victim is 35 years old.

He's a male, weighs about 190 pounds, height about 6'2.

What are the vitals?

Stand by for vital signs, Rampart.

BP is 120 over 80.

Respirations were 24.

It's the chicken.

I just know it.

ROY: Look, I thought I told you to take it easy.

Roy, you'll talk to Janet if anything happens?

Nothing's going to happen, Bob.

BOB: If it does.

Yeah.

Yeah, I will.

Rampart, the BP is 120 over 80.

The respiration is 24, and the pulse is 120.

Does he have any history of heart trouble?

Bob?

Rampart, that's negative.

Better run an EKG strip. 10-4.

Stand by, Rampart.

Oh, who would ever guess it would be anything like this?

Rampart, it's coming at you.

Go ahead, 51.

Mr. Johnson, I'm sorry, but you're supposed to be

up on the sixth floor, in bed.

But look.

Look at this shirt.

It's torn to pieces.

Mr. Johnson, at the time you were in cardiac arrest.

We had to rip the shirt to save your life.

$12 this shirt cost me-- $12.

Look, it's even monogrammed.

We have a fireman with chest pains.

Bob, you ever have anything like this before?

Never anything like this.

I used to have a hiatal hernia, but never anything like this.

OK, the EKG strip, 51.

Shows signs of tachycardia.

Uh, Rampart, the victim has had a history of hiatal hernia.

Where did you say he was standing over here?

In front of the stove. He was cooking something.

- This stuff here? - Yeah.

Johnny, you want to come over here for a minute?

Stand by, Rampart.

10-4, 51.

Hey, I'm dying.

Here, have a taste of this.

Bob, when you cook do you do a lot of tasting?

Well, yeah, kind of, especially when

there's a new recipe like that.

Bob, I like hot chili as much as anybody,

but that stuff is just--

Well, the guys said they wanted something

with a little zip to it.

You mean he didn't have a heart attack?

What is a hiatal hernia?

It's what you call an acute case of indigestion.

You mean I'm not dying?

Well, I can't guarantee you that,

but if you don't stop eating your own cooking you may.

Rampart, this is Squad 51.

Patient seems to be suffering from too much hot chili,

but we're going to send him in for an examination

just to be sure.

10-4, 51.

Now, then, I want to talk to your supervisor.

Here, make a call.

Ruin a $12 shirt.

Dix.

Yeah?

How would you like to go to lunch at the Velvet Slipper?

Hey, that just sounds marvelous, but I don't know.

I'm just so stacked up with paperwork.

Can I let you know?

Any time before noon.

Gotcha.

Ah.

Sorry. All right.

Now, I need you to go over there and fix on the engine,

so I can get a picture of that, OK?

We just did that.

Yeah, I know, but, see, I did that with a wide-angle lens.

I need to do that with this close-up lens, OK?

OK.

That's a good one, too.

Here, I'll hold this.

All right?

All right, how's that?

Well, actually, you're too close.

Can you-- can you go check the oil or something?

Can you just check the oil?

OK.

No.

Don't get the rag in front of your face.

Just check the oil now.

Yeah.

No, lift it up a little bit more, just a little bit more.

Come on, Roy.

Look at it, I mean really look at it.

Yeah, see, the oil dripping down the stick.

There we go.

There we go.

OK, good deal, good deal.

All right.

Now just put it back in.

Just put it back.

All right.

Shoot.

What's the matter?

My camera's jammed.

I'll be right back.

My wrench!

Johnny, where are you?

I need the wrench. JOHNNY: Don't open the door.

You'll expose the film.

What did you say?

I said, don't open the door; you'll expose the film.

Oh.

[alarm]

INTERCOM: Squad 51, a woman down,

apartment 6B, 104 Willerbrook Drive.

Time out, 11:04.

Squad 51, KMG 365.

[siren]

Here!

Over here!

Thanks for coming so fast.

She's in the back of apar-- apartment 6B.

- What's the problem? - I don't know.

I just don't know.

All right.

Where is it?

Her name is Rachel Phillips.

Uh-huh.

What's your name?

I'm her roommate, Trudy Benson.

We're both airline stewardesses and I usually

know how to deal with things like this,

but I can't get her to come to.

We'll take a look at her.

Right over here.

Over there.

Was she going some place?

She just got back from Acapulco Run.

How long has she been like this?

I don't know exactly.

I was sitting around the pool talking to some-- some people

when she came in.

That was over an hour ago.

Pulse still palpable at 90.

Is she on any kind of medication or any kind

of drugs or anything?

Rachel?

Are you kidding?

If you're thinking drugs, you can forget it.

She's the original all-American girl.

Look what she brought me back from Mexico, a lobster pack

on ice.

She caught it herself in some tiny little fishing village.

Well, what do you think it is?

Well, based on what we know so far,

it could be anyone of 400 different things.

[sirens]

He's a little boy about four, and he has

on red pants and a green shirt.

And the last time his mother saw him,

he was playing around the elevator buttons.

Treatment one.

Look, I'll be down there as soon as I can, OK?

Get the vitals, will you?

Did you guys find out anything more?

Well, on the way in, I did notice she had difficulties

in her respiration.

She's really burning up.

Hi, Joe.

Mike, draw blood for a CBC, SMA 12, toxicology

screening [inaudible].

You got an OD?

Could be, but I don't think so.

It's really very puzzling.

She seemed perfectly OK until about an hour

ago, when her roommate found her unconscious.

There's no history of drug use.

She has a high fever.

No papilledema on fundoscopic exam.

No meningismus.

Deep tendon reflexes are intact.

Moderate respiratory distress.

Where did you guys say you found her?

On the floor of her apartment.

Just doesn't figure.

You know, she'd been way down the boondocks in Arizona

or someplace near the border.

I can make a wild guess.

What?

[inaudible]

What's that?

That's one of the deadliest species of scorpions.

Wait a minute.

Now, don't they have these scorpions down in Mexico

along the coast? - Yeah.

That's where we find the granddaddies of them all.

She just got back from Mexico.

Did you guys see this?

Red, keeps swelling at the underarm.

That just doesn't make sense.

Well, this is how we found her when she was--

when she was dressing.

Wait a minute.

If it were a scorpion and it was in her clothes,

if she were dressing, couldn't it have stung her here?

Blood pressure is 90 over 65.

She's going into shock.

Start a norepinephrine drip.

Ready 100 milligrams of hydrocortisone.

I think the scorpion's a good bet.

You think she's going to make it?

Depends on how fast we can move.

Get Dr. Barkley, neurology, and tell him

to come down here right away.

If it is a scorpion, they're still

running around that apartment.

This is John Gage, Squad 51.

Did we get a call back on that last response?

TELEPHONE: Let me check the ticket.

Negative.

No call back.

We're going to be 10-8 on that location.

We've got to look for a scorpion.

10-4.

See you later, doc.

[siren]

[knocking]

Trudy?

Trudy, this is the fire department.

Trudy?

This is the fire department.

Trudy?

Trudy.

TRUDY: Who is it?

Trudy.

Rachel. It's about Rachel, isn't it?

No, it's not about Rachel. Rachel's fine.

She's hanging in there.

Is this Rachel's here?

Yes.

May I look at it please?

Sure.

Where are the rest of her things?

I was just putting them away in the bedroom.

It was terrible putting-- - Uh, uh, uh, don't touch it.

Don't touch that.

Just move away.

I don't understand.

It could very well be in here.

There he is.

You have anything?

Scorpion.

South of the border.

Yeah, and he hasn't heard of the good neighbor policy,

either.

Dix. Dix, where are those X-rays?

They should be up there by now. - Again?

Yes, again.

Oh, they must be all jammed up.

I'll get right on it.

[telephone ringing]

Emergency.

Ms. McCall.

Oh, you did find him.

Yeah, that's right.

About four in a red and green outfit.

Where was he?

In the communicable disease lab.

Uh-huh.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I'll send somebody out.

Dr. Allen in Emergency.

Dr. Allen in Emergency.

Not your day, huh?

It's almost noon.

What did you decide about lunch?

What do you think?

Good.

DIXIE: Wow.

I can't believe it.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Right.

Hey, did I remember to say thank you?

Only about 40 times.

If you knew what kind of a morning I had-- well, I just

couldn't handle another crisis.

Enjoy your salads.

Thank you, Maurice.

Thank you.

Well, I hope you're hungry, because this

is just for starters.

Are you kidding?

I may be crazy, but there's nothing wrong with my appetite.

Cheers.

Oh, yeah, hey.

Uh, let's see.

Here's to, uh, pure, uh, unadulterated, complete peace.

I'll drink to that.

So will I.

Mm.

Good salad.

Yes, I'd say so.

Dr. Brackett?

A young lady just walked in off the street

saying she needed a doctor right away and then collapsed.

Where is she?

In the private dining room.

Dix, I got a bag in the car.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know what else to do.

I never saw before, so it isn't anything

she ate-- not here anyway.

I can take it from here, Maurice.

You take care of your customers, huh?

And close those doors. - All right, doctor.

Are you a doctor?

Yes, I'm Dr. Brackett.

Now you just take it easy.

We'll take a look at you, huh?

[groaning]

Is this your first one?

No, my second.

It looks like she's due any minute.

- Shall I call an ambulance? - Yeah, with an incubator.

Unless I missed my guess, she's delivering right now--

and I mean right now.

You stay here.

I'll make the call.

Dix, see if you can get that tablecloth under her.

[yelling in pain]

I'm really sorry.

I thought I could make it to my husband's office.

I was out shopping.

It's only the eighth month.

Just take it easy.

What's your name?

Margaret.

Margaret Dowell. - All right, Margaret.

I just want you to relax.

Everything's going to be fine, but I'm going to need all

the help you can give me, OK?

OK.

She's dilated about 8 centimeters.

Dix, listen for fetal heart tones.

Let me know what happens.

An ambulance is on the way with an incubator.

Thanks, Maurice.

Oh, don't you need some boiling water

and things like that?

No, that only happens in the movies.

Get us some clean white towels, eh?

Coming right up.

Fetal heart toes are 160 between contractions.

[groaning]

Kell, fetal heart tones are down to 100.

MARGARET: Oh!

Oh!

The head's coming down.

What are the tones now?

Still 100.

They're not coming back up.

The umbilical cord's wrapped around the baby's neck.

Get it out fast.

Margaret, I want you to take a deep breath and push-- hard.

Oh!

One more time, Margaret.

Oh!

Again.

Harder.

[groaning]

Again.

Once more.

[inaudible], Dixie.

Scissors.

You did it, Margaret.

Just delivered a healthy baby girl.

Here are the towels.

The chef said good luck.

[baby crying]

Don't tell me.

Congratulations, Maurice.

Got yourself a new customer.

Well.

The least I can do is give two free dinners

to the lucky parents.

[baby crying]

Well, congratulations, doctor.

Stinks about lunch.

Bad time, eh?

OK, now really rub it.

OK.

Ready?

Harder.

Don't look at me, just work.

Good one.

Good one.

OK, now, Chet, I'd like to get you over by the map.

Oh, come on, Johnny.

That Sounds a little dull, doesn't it?

That's not going to be dull. Come on.

I know what I'm doing. Come on, come on.

Anything you say, CB.

Just cooperate.

This way we get it all done, and I don't have to to take

the camera all the time.

Let's see.

A little bit more over by the green.

OK, I want to surround your head totally by green.

OK, that's-- that's not too good.

Let's see here.

What if, uh, we take here?

Closer into the map.

Still no good.

OK.

All right.

Now just-- well, more-- more profile.

That's it.

More profile.

You're right.

It is dull. - Hey, I got an idea.

Why don't' you take a picture of us all jumping

up and down on your camera? - Oh, come on, Chet.

Now this is for us all.

Now I got to find a proper background.

You mind if I impose here for a little fire

department business?

Mike?

Roy?

Come here, Marco.

Got a notice here I'm supposed to read to the whole shift.

OK, all personnel, beginning January 1st--

- What's the matter, Captain? - You blinded me, you twit.

That's what's the matter. - I'm sorry, sir.

Maybe I should, uh, rely more on the outside shots than--

than on--

Interesting that you should think of that.

Yes.

[alarm sounding]

INTERCOM: Station 51.

Truck reported over the side into ravine,

2 and 1/2 miles east of Paradise Dam construction site.

Status unknown.

Time out, 15:27.

Station 51, KMG 365.

Station 51, KMG 365.

[sirens]

Down there!

It just caught fire! - What about the driver?

I don't know. I got a bum leg.

The only thing I could do was drive to the main road

and get as far as a call. - All right.

Chet, check the driver out down there.

Marco, get the reel line.

I was on my way fishing before they dam up the creek for good.

Wait a minute.

Look like he hit this steering column full force.

He's alive.

He's got a pulse.

Cap, he's conscious.

He's conscious.

Still alive, but, uh, we're going to have to cut him out.

Stoker, need the jaws and a bar down here!

You know, it's the best fishing in the county.

It's all gone, just like that.

And them politicians is to blame.

Hey, call the cops.

You know, I been fishing up there

for 40 years come this fall.

You fellas ever fish?

Guess not.

Cap, truck's carrying dynamite.

What?

How much dynamite you carrying in here?

20 cases.

He's carrying about 20 cases.

Hey, you're not going to leave me, are you?

No, we're not going to leave you.

We're not going to leave you.

You guys are nuts.

What's the problem?

We got a truckload of dynamite in here.

If we put a lid on those fumes,

we're going to blow this whole mountainside away.

The safest thing to do is to let it burn.

At least it won't explode that way.

Are you going to be able to get him out of there

before it blows? - We'll have to chance it.

Marco, come over here and flog us down.

Cap, we could cut right through the steering wheel,

huh?

Why don't you get on back, pal.

All right.

Don't get any water on that cargo area, Marco.

Mike, move that thing as far away form here as you can.

All right.

No, no, thanks for calling.

I appreciate it.

OK, take care.

Bye, [inaudible]. - What?

The stewardess and the truck driver--

they're both going to be OK. - Oh, that's-- that's great.

Isn't that great?

Yeah, that really is great, but-- but listen.

I got to tell you something. - Oh, yeah.

What were you going to say? That's what I'm going to say.

You remember my picture story, the picture

story that everybody was putting me down about?

- Don't tell me. - All right.

I won't tell you. I'll tell you.

Well, the newspaper's considering it.

They're reading it over right now.

That's sensational.

They really must be hard up for news.

That isn't even the half of it.

Hey, guys, you want to gather around

and see something that they already bought for $25?

And they're running it in the evening edition.

He said it was the best action shot he's ever seen.

All right.

That's terrific. - Thank you.

Thank you. - 25 smackers, eh?

Yeah, 25 smackers.

What do you say about that, Chester?

Nothing. I could use the money, though.

What are you talking about?

Get your hands off my picture.

What are you doing?

- Captain Stanley. - Yeah.

- Marco. - Yeah.

Stoker.

- Yeah. - Roy.

Yeah.

How did I get in there?

Thanks, John.

But-- I-- how'd you get my camera?