Stemler Overheated

It was a hot hot few days on this fire. But there was still some clean up to do.

It was hot and we have had a few days of extreme heat. the humidity was low. The complex of fires all had to deal with it. We had heard over the radio about people being lifted out for extreme dehydration. Some where in a critical state. In fact there was six people evacuated off of the complex.

Then we had a dehydration on our own section of the fire. Below are the pictures of all of us trying to cool the patient. 

We had a medic on site and we hiked him in and he administered an i v. We were able to cool him off and fortunately he was able to walk back to the truck under his own power. 

We were fortunate on this one. It could have been any one of us. 

Credit should go out to a number of people. There was many of us who played a role in caring for this patient. 

We are all taught what to do and what not to do. But the common denominator of disasters seems to be set up by mistakes that happen because of a number of reasons. 

My next post I will talk about the reasons that led to the dehydration on our division of the fire. There were mistakes that were made that could have, and should have been prevented.