The Station
Language: English
Pages: 371
ISBN: B008219M8K
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
´The Station´ takes the reader through a single shift at a busy emergency ambulance station in London. As the story unfolds, the reader is given a glimpse of the world of the Paramedic. There is humour, fear and sadness mixed into a tragic sub-story that suddenly leaps out of the pages to shock the reader back into reality. The Station is not quite what you think it is...
waiting and watching. Only a few of the smarter ones drove away or parked up on the pavement. They knew that the roads would have to be clear, because in the next few minutes, invited by disaster, a cacophony of sirens would descend. Blood gullied down into the drains and human remains lay strewn over a large area around the scrap metal that was once a car. Light was beginning to seep through the blast pollution, and a few people who’d looked dead on the street were getting to their feet again.
confirmation from the injured man. Jim was listening to the paramedic but he feared the prospect of moving, even though that’s exactly what he had been wanting to do for God knows how long now. The clattering noise he’d heard was gone but in its place he could hear the sound of men shouting orders at each other and a confusion of other noises he couldn’t yet identify. Someone shouted “doctor” and he felt somehow nearer to life than death again. The HEMS team arrived just as the oxygen mask was
gave two hoots about the cat. They just enjoyed watching a grown man being made a fool of by it. Phil, in particular, felt no sympathy for it; he had one to contend with in his love life and if he ever had the chance to kick it up the arse, he certainly would. But he knew the animal and he figured it was clever and dexterous enough to arm itself with a rifle and blow his head off. Dale was ushered out to the front of the house and into the ambulance, where the rest of his clinical observations
they’ll kill the pain before they kill you,” Phil suggested, annoyed that his offering had been criticised. “Hmm. Okay but if my gum starts bleeding all over the place again it’ll be down to you and your drugs.” “At least you’ve got your normal speech back,” Phil said as he returned to his position in the passenger seat. His own speech has corrected itself too, so his lisp was gone. Brian swallowed the tablets, along with a little blood, and rested back against the window as he contemplated
spectators. They saw the shocked look on the medics’ faces, and they watched in horror as Bo-Bo’s head appeared to jolt into the air like a torched Halloween pumpkin. Enough illumination was provided by the blue spark to allow them to see the pretty decorations and wrapped presents that surrounded the figures in the room, it made for a hellish birthday scene, and more than one child began to scream as parents gasped aloud in unison at the momentary spectacle. Brian and Phil were still kneeling