Whodathunk?

Last night, while I was running an EMS shift on campus, our computer notification system popped up announcing a call that we were about to get. So me and the two other EMTs on duty pulled our shoes on, slapped ourselves awake (it was a slow night!), and trudged out to the van. We get in the van and begin waiting for our radios to make that lovely dee-doo-dee-doo-dee-doo sound...but it doesn't come. I text my friend, who is working at dispatch, and ask him if we're getting a call, since it had been 3 minutes or so since the computer message had popped up. He texted me back saying "no", and then he got on the radio.

Dispatch: EMS duty crew from dispatch.
Me: Go ahead.
Dispatch: You may have heard the tones go off in the office, you can disregard those.
Me: 10-4.

We head back inside and I hop back onto one of the computers, and ask my friend "dude! What was up with that???" He said that a girl had called in requesting medical assistance, so he had started to write up a medical incident. When he asked her more questions, she began talking about her leaking sink!

Who would have thought that EMTs were not just medical personnel...but plumbers too!

Next time, don't call the University Police when your sink is leaking and ask for medical assistance. Call the after-hours maintenance phone number. :)