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can’t breathe and you help them that makes you feel a whole lot better,” said Brian, smiling.
He said he averages 10 calls a month but ran two calls just last Friday, one a sickcall and the other a serious auto accident.
Jason Critchfield is a 17-year-old with Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue who said he didn’t like school, but knows that he wants to work fire and rescue, eventually as a paid EMT, and work in electronics.
He joined in early 1992, helping with fundraisers, washing the trucks and ambulances, and taking photographs at auto accidents. “I am a rescue bum,” said Jason, who became EMT-B certified in September. His mom, Thora Pullen, is the rescue captain and his stepfather, David Pullen, is a driver and is certified in CPR.
“I did not think anything could be this interesting,” said Jason. As much as anything else, he said he loves meeting and getting to know the other people he works with on rescue and firefighting. “These people are as close to family as someone can get,” he said. He said that everyone is so eager to help, and that puts them on a pedestal as far as he is concerned.
“I am a people person,” said Jason, adding that often he will follow-up to see how a patient is doing at the hospital or when they are released. They learn a lot about what they are doing by seeing how the patient recovers, he said. As an EMT, Jason can make the patient more comfortable, given them oxygen, do basic life support, and use the AED (automatic external defibrillator).
Jason is moving to Pennsylvania temporarily and has already applied at a volunteer rescue squad there. But it sounds like he’ll end up back in Rappahannock. “I am proud of what I do here. I am treated as an equal and they treat me with respect,” said Jason.
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