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Reddit nosleep search and rescue5/26/2023 The mom comes to stand next to him, but she ends up stepping on a loose patch of soil, and she trips. The dad takes the kid and is holding him, looking out over this little gully by the path. Turns out the couple had been walking with the baby in the sling, and they stopped because the kid was fussing. I was good buddies with one of the nurses who met them at the hospital, and she told me later what had happened. He’d died instantly from the trauma to his head. We took it back to the med area, but when the EMTs showed up, they told us that there was never any hope of saving the kid. But eventually, one of the vets manages to calm her down, and she gives us the body. Every time we try to take him from her, she flips out and tells us we can’t have him, that he’ll be okay if we just leave her alone and let her help him. It took us over an hour to get this woman to let us see her kid. I tell him that it’s a dead kid, and he sort of pats my shoulder and tells me he’ll deal with it. I have to take a second to compose myself, and I get up and go get one of the other vets, who’s standing by. Now, I’ve seen dead bodies before, but something about this whole situation hits me hard. His head is caved in on one side, and he’s covered in scratches. I ask her to tell me what’s going on, and I sort of pry her arms gently open so I can see what she’s holding. That’s when I notice the sling on her front and my heart sinks. I crouch down and see that whatever she’s holding, it’s covering her with blood. She’s rocking, holding something, and just shrieking, over and over. I go over while one of the vets tries to calm him down, and I ask the wife what’s going on. He’s still hysterical, but he manages to tell us that it’s not his wife that needs help. Now obviously we can’t just drive an ambulance up the walking path, so we ask him if his wife needs help, or if she can walk on her own. He sees us and he screams at us to help them, to please get an ambulance up there. She’s screaming these awful, almost animal-like screams, and he’s sobbing. When we get there, we see him holding his wife, and shes got something in her arms. We could hear the woman screaming in the background, and he was begging us to come up there right away. The husband was completely hysterical, and we couldn’t really figure out what was going on. This case got called in early in the morning, from a young couple who were up on one of the trails that goes by the lake. As an SAR officer, you go out for all kinds of cases, from animal bites to heart attacks. Before I took this job, I was a volunteer, so I had a basic idea of what to expect, but on those calls you’re mostly dealing with finding lost people after vets have found signs of them.
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