“And I hear somebody say, ‘ESU is here.’ And the firemen make a path. They clear a path. I say, ‘Holy cow, they made a path for us.’ And my partner and I walk up, and there’s this vehicle that they had just taken the roof off of…there’s nothing left of the vehicle.”
From scuba diving operations to trench rescues and overturned tankers to suicide calls, the Emergency Service Unit is ready to be “the answer to anything and everything.” During his 20-year career as a public servant with a major metropolitan police department, Retired Detective Vinny saw more than his fair share of the brutal and bizarre. But when he and his partner respond to one of the worst vehicle accidents of his tenure, Vinny has a difficult time determining whether it’s the devastating crash, what he’s unexpectedly asked to do in its aftermath, or the sometimes-ruthless side of human nature that leaves him the most unsettled.
Join former firefighter/paramedic and host Phil Klein as he shares the mic with long-time friend, Detective Vinny, to revisit the progression of Vinny’s career as a first responder and the incident he describes as the most “interesting and infuriating” call he ever had to deal with.
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