#emsdetten

Soooo I know its been over a week since 4th of July but lemme share a story about working EMS during the holidays. So my boyfriend(also works in EMS) gets a call to stage after an explosion at a private residence. Once the scene is clear he goes into a little shed type building and finds a male mid 30s with burns all over the front side of his body roughly 27% raging between 1st and 2nd degree burns. So this man it turns out was attempting to make fireworks for his kids, and his thought process was a little like this. If I take gun powder and grind it up in a blender... A blender then mix it up with food coloring I can make my kids fireworks. Well long story short he put gun powder in the blender and it exploded in his face. His wife being the supportive ever loyal partner was entirely unconcerned with the mini explosion and said something along the lines of "oh honey I didnt even know you took the blender" And that is pretty much the baseline for 911 calls around holidays.