User talk:Simplymaddog11

This is an essay I wrote for school. It is a personal Narrative about the time I met the firefighter who saved my life. PLEASE DONT EDIT THIS

On January 14th, 2014, I was in a brutal car crash. As a matter of a fact, I barely survived. One of the main reasons I survived was because of the one firefighter who was on his way back to the station after dealing with a situation, when he saw my car in a ditch. In the car was me, my aunt Katie, my older sister Jessie, and my little cousin KJ. I was in the back-passenger seat. This amazing firefighter saw my car in a ditch only a few moments after the initial crash happened. The car was still spinning. This man stopped his firetruck, called for backup, and immediately rushed over to help us. It was a major challenge for him to get me out of the car. The reason for this is because the door on my side refused to open so they had to drag me out of the car over my younger cousin’s car sit, and out his door. This was an almost impossible challenge because in the crash, the seatbelt had popped some of my intestines on the inside and I was in tremendous pain so much so that I couldn’t even move. This heroic firefighter had to carefully remove me from the car. At the time he was taking be out of the car, more firetrucks arrived and so did a nurse that was off duty that just happened to be driving by. All these people worked together to get me out of the car carefully. The one firefighter that was there first, held me on the ground keeping me stable and calming me down until the ambulance could get there. Keep in mind I was in tremendous pain, so I was screaming my head off. Once the ambulance finally got there, the firefighter that was there through it all gave me over to the paramedics and I was soon sent to the hospital. My mom, Kaydie ( My best friend ), and I all went up to our local fire station seeking information about a program that we had heard about where supposedly firefighters were serving full thanksgiving meals out a few days before for families. We had arrived at the fire station and went inside to see if we could get any information. My mom started talking to this firefighter that was there to try and get some details. While my mom and the firefighter were talking, Kaydie and I were playing around on the firetruck because the firefighter said we could. Not to long into their conversation, I hear my mom’s voice start tensing up a little. I, at the time, had no clue why this was happening, so I went back to playing in the firetruck. The next thing I heard from my mom was her asking how long that specific man had been a firefighter which was normal but then she asked if he was working on January 14th, 2014. As soon as my mom said this, I stopped in my tracks and turned towards them. I was nervous to hear his answer. “Yeah I was. I will never forget that day because on that day I was coming back from a situation and on my way back to the station, I saw this car spinning in a ditch so I stopped called for backup and got out of the truck as fast as I could. “My eyes were already tearing up from hearing him say that. “I rushed over to the car. In the car was 2 adults, 1 toddler, and this little girl. That little girl was in critical condition. It was almost impossible to get her out the car but eventually I got her out. I stabilized her and calmed her down laying her down and holding her still. I had to put her on a gurney and put straps around her so she wouldn’t hurt herself by moving around so much. I held that little girl trying my best to calm her down because it was obvious she was in tremendous pain and I didn’t want her to hurt herself anymore because I could tell she had internal bleeding.” He was right. I did have internal bleeding and if he weren’t there calming me down, I most likely would have kept moving around because of the pain and injured myself even more. He saved my life. “Maddie come here.” My heart began racing when I heard my mom call me over. I still slowly walked over trying to hide my tears. It was extremely difficult. “Yes?” “This is the little girl that you saved in that car 5 years ago. You saved her life. If you weren’t there calming her down, she most likely wouldn’t have made it. Thank you.” My mom explained to the firefighter that I was the girl he saved and without him I wouldn’t have been there in that moment. “Wait, really?” The firefighter seemed so excited that I was there. “I have always wondered what happened to you. I never did get to find out any information on how you were doing.” “Well thanks to you, I am here happy and healthy. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you for saving my life. You can’t imagine how grateful I am.” I approached the firefighter with water balloons for eyes that were about to burst as I tried not to start crying. I gave him the biggest hug ever. After about 15 minutes of catching the firefighter up on how well I did and was still doing, my mind completely switched thoughts. “I want to be a firefighter” my brain thought. My m noticed this and began concerned. “Maddie, are you ok?” “Yeah I am fine I just had a though.” My mom went back to talking to the firefighter. “I want to be a firefighter.” I blurted it out without another thought. “What?” “I said I want to be a firefighter. Thanks to you.” I pointed at the man who saved my life. “Me? Why?” “You saved my life and I want to save other people’s lives. I want to help make this world better. We only get one chance at living, I learned that. I want to help other people stay alive like you did for me.” “Wow. I mean I inspired you?” “Yes. Thanks to you my mind has realized just what I need to do.” “Wow. I am so glad to hear that.” We talked for a few minutes about the work it takes to become a firefighter, the challenges of being a firefighter, and the rewards of being a firefighter I now am going to try and keep my grades up in school so I can enter a junior firefighting program at a fire station near me when I am old enough and keep putting in hard work so later on in life I can get excepted into a good college so I can study to become a firefighter.