A Family Life
Chapter 15
(In Virgil's point a view)
We all had arrived in the lounge to see what this next mission was about, Jo was still in the sickbay with with Lisa when the call came in. I knew that my wife would be up as soon as she heard the alarm going off.
"Hey Dad, what's going on?"
"We have another hospital that has gone up in flames in Chicago, John says that emergency services are on the scene but they are having trouble trying to find the fire. So, they called us to help them. As Dad told us this, I had notice Jo come through the door and sank to the floor.
"Oh my God, this can't be happening, I can lose my youngest baby now."
"Base to TB5 come in John."
"Go ahead Dad."
"John could you call to see if the hospital have started evacuating people especially any babies in there?"
"Oh no, is Jo Okay?"
"John can you please call and check for us?" I asked while making my way over to Jo and pulling her into my arms. By looking at Dad I knew what he was going to say and I wasn't going to be happy about it.
"Now here is what we are going to do, Virgil I want you and Jo to fly over in Tracy 1 because your son is there."
"But Dad."
"I am sorry Virgil but it has to be this way, Scott off you go and see what needs to be done. Gordon, Alan and Tin-Tin I want you three to pack all the medical equipment that you can carry in TB2. Goodness knows what you are going to find when you get out there.
"Okay Dad." Said Gordon who disappeared with Alan and Tin-Tin to get TB2 ready. Jo had calmed down a bit now and went to get the babies and Robyn with Lisa.
"Dad at least let us wait till Scott calls, I want to make sure that Scotty is okay"
"No problem son, I will look after Robyn and the babies in here while you deal with this. It's not as if I wanted you over there in two, I just don't want the hospital linking you to IR in the slightest."
"That's okay Dad, I get it now and all I want is to bring my baby boy home now. We have left him too long as it is. Oh no Mum was meant to be over there with him what if?"
"Virgil don't think about the what if's, I am sure that your mother is fine."
Just then Mum had called Dad to let him know that Scotty was safe with her in an Ambulance with a doctor and two paramedics called Emily Foster and Sylvie Brett. In a way this was good news for us and now I knew that Scotty was safe. So, I decided to go and get ready for going. I had met Jo in the sickbay and we made our way down to the hanger to get into Tracy one. Once we had taken off, I told Jo about Scotty. "Jo while you were in the sickbay with Lisa, Mum had called through to say that she had Scotty safe with her'."
"But how?"
"Mum had told the staff that she wanted to take him out for a walk, so the hospital put a mini heart monitor on him and a doctor was with them the whole time. Jo now that we know that Scotty is okay I feel like I need to help out here depending on what its like when we get there."
"Oh I don't know Virgil your Dad told you not too, what if you get noticed working with your brothers?"
"This is good thing about it, I don't have to work with them, I just tell whoever is in charge that I am a trained E.M.T." I said, it took us about a couple of hours to reach the hospital once we got there, we could see that it was really bad. An ambulance had blocked the road and I could just about see that there was a baby in there with the back doors open. So, I made my way over to the Fire Chief in charge.
"I'm sorry but you can't go near there at the moment, we have more help coming."
"Sir, I think that our baby is in that ambulance, we really need to see him now." I said as I had my arms around my shaken wife.
"Okay Brett, the parents of that new born is coming through, keep them in there with you at all times on no uncertain terms do they leave 61" said the Battalion Chief.
We had got to the ambulance to see that Mum had got out to pull us into a hug.
"How's Scotty?"
"He is fine, sweetheart why don't you both go in there and see for yourselves" said Mum who had led us into the ambulance to see our little boy, now that I knew he was safe. I left Jo in there with Mum and the medics while I went around the side of the Ambulance to get some air. I could almost see TB1 landing behind the hospital. So, I gave Scott a quick call. "Virgil Tracy calling TB1 come in Scott."
"TB1 here Virgil, how is it looking?"
"Really bad Scott and we were lucky to get into see Scotty, he is safe now and I really need to help you guys out here."
"Virgil that is out of the question and you know it. We can't risk you"
"Scott, I don't need to come in as a member of IR, I could just come in as a First Aider and nothing more. I don't have to work with you."
"Okay but I won't say anything to Dad about it just make sure that you chat to Jo about it before you decide to help out."
"No problem Scott I will call you once I am ready to help out. Did Dad send anyone else because we are going to need all hands-on deck for this one?"
"Yeah he sent Lisa out with us, the fire seems to be controlled now so all we need to do is help with getting the trapped people out."
"Okay Scott, you will need to chat with the Battalion Chief who is in charge of this whole thing here and go from there. This isn't our show Scott we have to work as a team here with the emergency services here."
"No problem Virgil in fact I want to go out and search for the victims since you have met the Chief why don't you run things from this end? TB2 is about to land and I want to use her as a mini hospital to bring our victims into. Lisa is in two's sickbay getting everything ready, I don't really want to ask Jo to leave Scotty to help out because he needs his Mother. "
"It's okay Scott, I am happy to help from up here. At least I can be doing something here." It didn't take long for me to get back to the ambulance to see that Jo had settled and was feeding Scotty now. "Hey can I speak to you two a sec? I think I could be a big help to you here."
"What can you do?" said this girl called Emily with a smile.
"I am a trained E.M.T and I can be useful to you,"
"Okay then so you won't mind telling us what all our equipment in this Ambulance does then?" asked Emily
While I was getting questioned about the equipment in the ambulance, I could see my wife smiling and laughing at me while holding our son. But I knew everything in it and more.
"Now I have another test for you to do, if you can pass this then you can help us out here."
"What is it you want me to do?"
"I want you to intubate the next person that comes here who needs it."
"Yep I can do this with my eyes closed with no problems." I said as her partner came to stand beside Emily.
"Hey Foster would you leave that poor guy alone, he has offered to help so don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Just let him help."
"Well we are about to see what Virgil can do because here comes our first patient, here is your kit so knock yourself out and show us what you can do." said Emily who had handed me the kit. In a matter of seconds I had it done and smiled back at my wife who was watching.
"I'm in." I said with a smile and moved myself onto the next person.
