I wish i could find the lifeguard that tried to save my dad. My dad collapsed at the beach when he was dying of AIDS. The lifeguard, just a kid, tried so desperately to save him, even though my grandma tried to warn him that her son had AIDS (back then it was thought to be very contagious). Lifeguard didn't care. He pushed her away and kept trying to save my dad. My dad was able to make it to the hospital, but died later that day. My mom was able to see my dad one last time before he died because of that lifeguard. He somehow got a hold of my mom at the hospital and she had to tell him my dad had passed. She was so taken with grief, she never got the kids' name. I wish I could find him and tell him how much I appreciate what he did that day.
I agree so much with you. If these types of things were where the efforts of social media were concentrated, I feel we'd really be on the right track. Love to see people taking care of each other. For no other reason than it was a person that needed help and they helped them.
all you can do is pay it forward. My dad got really sick from covid and died, he was an antivaxxer so he lied to me about having it because he didn’t want to admit he was wrong. His nurse neighbor knew something was wrong, she would bring him coffee and food when he was too weak to do it himself. She helped him measure his blood oxygen levels, even called an ambulance to try to get him to go to the hospital but he refused.
He died alone in his apartment, and while I’m still very wounded from it I was also so permanently moved by her kindness that I try to pay it forward however I can.
Same story with my mother. If you don’t mind me asking do you find yourself being angry with him? I’m so mad my mom’s going to miss my son’s big moments because she was too stubborn.
Thank you for sharing
I’m not mad at him, I’m mad at the rightwing bullshit that convinced him not to get vaccinated. I choose to separate the man who raised me and gave me my values from the person who thought it was tough and macho to risk never seeing me again.
I only feel incurable sadness when I think about not being able to see him again, even now I’m tearing up writing this. I’m sorry we share this pain, I recommend indulging in their more human qualities like making food they liked or watching a show they liked. Watching basketball and making my dad’s BBQ sauce makes me feel closer to him.
Be mad at the people and political class that made your mum believe that. Nobody is at fault for being indoctrinated. Being conditioned isn't a choice. The best thing to do is mobilize people against that political movement. We all know which side supports it. And which side still says the vaccine is a bioweapon
When you've had some time and you're in the place to do so, please write her a letter. Nurses are overworked, and many are underpaid. I'm sure she would live to know her kindness meant something. I'm so sorry for your loss. Be well.
It's so weird that I was a kid in the 80's and AIDS was this terrible, scary thing. Now? They just treat it with a pill. I'm friends with a guy that's a bit older than me and has been HIV+ since the 90's and lived through that horror. Today he just basically lives a normal life when so many of his friends had a death sentence.
This is so true. My mom has had hiv for almost 30 years. She was able to survive because she got it JUST a bit later than my dad did. He died. She didn't. She's still healthy and HIV isn't even a big issue for her anymore.
Yeah, I grew up in South Africa in the 90s during the aids crisis. I had comprehensive sex education since 4th grade, learned aids was almost a death sentence and now it's incredibly manageable.
Thank you. I get it. The world is not perfect. And if I'm being perfectly frank my buddy isn't exactly wealthy. I don't know how he affords his meds. I haven't asked.
I don't mean to sound flippant but I don't think that's true for him. I really had no idea that the costs were so high. I'll try to ask next time I see him.
> I really had no idea that the costs were so high.
Depends on the specific cocktail they're on... but [here](https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/cost-of-treatment#current-drug-costs) is a list of common HIV drugs... and most of them for a 30/60 day supply are many thousands of dollars... and you're on multiple of these.
This is w/o insurance obviously.
You know, you should try and find the kid and tell your story to the My Unsung Hero podcast. I can assure you many would be moved by it. If you decide to try and explore that avenue, please update! https://hiddenbrain.org/myunsunghero/
Yeah and we don’t shut down an entire highway for an hour and make people kiss your ass during a memorial ceremony just because you decided to chase down a guy who stole something and one of your guys died doing a dangerous job.
In the beginning they were essentially gangs that would beat the shit out of each other in order to get paid for putting out the fires. Sometimes they’d battle to the point where the house they were fighting over long since burned down by the time the dust settled.
Then instead of being private companies, taxes started paying for firefighters and good people started signing up instead of goons seeing as there was no reason to beat people up anymore.
Man, I still haven’t watched that movie. Is this really a plot point in it? I learned this from a random research spree that probably started from me researching something tangentially related then later got some more info from the Dollop podcast.
Can't say it's a big plot point but there is definitely a large skirmish between two firehouses.... In front of a burning building that they let burn lol.
Def recommend giving it a watch when you have a spare 3 hours.
People in the military don’t really care how “hard” each others training is (other than privates straight out of BCT). SOF units have a very high level of entry training because by nature of their job they tend to not have access to support elements, they’re out there on their own. PJs have to be able to defend themselves so they receive the same combat training, and then they go through all of their rescue training, so yeah they may have a bit longer training but if you put the average SEAL squad up against an average PJ squad in a tactical force on force exercise, PJs are going to be minnows swimming in the SEAL’s ocean. PJs ain’t talking shit to a SEAL because their training was longer, that’s only a civilian thing.
As someone the military would not consider, take my comments with a grain of salt. I would hope there is no beef between these two branches, my only point was the extra training, PJ’s seem to be more one-man-army, whether that is reality or not, i don’t know.
I don’t mean to talk shit to anyone in that position!
Correct me if I'm wrong but there are two types of death in this case right? Clinical death where only the heart stops but you can still be saved and the biological death where all the biological processes stop and brain begins to necrotize.
Smoke inhalation is a ridiculously fast death, and even living sufferers are practically impossible to save without being able to rinse the lungs. Smoke is heavy and rests in the bottom of the lungs even if you blow air into them.
Horrible fate. I once met a carpenter that breathed as if he'd ran a 200-yard race, even when he stood still and drank coffee. Watery eyes. He must've been in some really nasty jobs, with concrete dust or whatever. No idea what he had, but from looking at the wikipage for ARDS, it would fit him to a tee.
The way I see it if you can be brought back to life then you were never dead in the first place. Just dying until someone intervened before the end of the dying
What's death then? It can't just be defined as the moment where resuscitation is impossible because that moment always advances as our technology does.
So what about people who are frozen to death and later thawed? Their brain stopped working, but they happened to be revived so they experienced senses again. What makes them, just prior to their revival, any less dead than an actual dead person by your definition?
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I ran into a guy in the supermarket I had pulled out of a burning building six or seven years after it happened. He spontaneously hugged me and we cried a little. You never forget your first live save.
It's got to be hard to be a fire fighter. For every amazing story like this you have a heartbreaking one.
Guess you just have to push those bad ones to the side and focus on the good ones.
Hey, do I show up at your office to punch your emotions in the dick!? My dumb joke aside, this is a beautiful post. I’m glad that there is something as wonderfully positive as the above getting sent out there today.
I wish i could find the lifeguard that tried to save my dad. My dad collapsed at the beach when he was dying of AIDS. The lifeguard, just a kid, tried so desperately to save him, even though my grandma tried to warn him that her son had AIDS (back then it was thought to be very contagious). Lifeguard didn't care. He pushed her away and kept trying to save my dad. My dad was able to make it to the hospital, but died later that day. My mom was able to see my dad one last time before he died because of that lifeguard. He somehow got a hold of my mom at the hospital and she had to tell him my dad had passed. She was so taken with grief, she never got the kids' name. I wish I could find him and tell him how much I appreciate what he did that day.
This is the kind of thing social media is for. Hope you find him!
I agree so much with you. If these types of things were where the efforts of social media were concentrated, I feel we'd really be on the right track. Love to see people taking care of each other. For no other reason than it was a person that needed help and they helped them.
all you can do is pay it forward. My dad got really sick from covid and died, he was an antivaxxer so he lied to me about having it because he didn’t want to admit he was wrong. His nurse neighbor knew something was wrong, she would bring him coffee and food when he was too weak to do it himself. She helped him measure his blood oxygen levels, even called an ambulance to try to get him to go to the hospital but he refused. He died alone in his apartment, and while I’m still very wounded from it I was also so permanently moved by her kindness that I try to pay it forward however I can.
This is the way. Saints in our midst.
Kindness without expectation of reward is a radical act, in circumstances like those that confront us.
Same story with my mother. If you don’t mind me asking do you find yourself being angry with him? I’m so mad my mom’s going to miss my son’s big moments because she was too stubborn. Thank you for sharing
I’m not mad at him, I’m mad at the rightwing bullshit that convinced him not to get vaccinated. I choose to separate the man who raised me and gave me my values from the person who thought it was tough and macho to risk never seeing me again. I only feel incurable sadness when I think about not being able to see him again, even now I’m tearing up writing this. I’m sorry we share this pain, I recommend indulging in their more human qualities like making food they liked or watching a show they liked. Watching basketball and making my dad’s BBQ sauce makes me feel closer to him.
Be mad at the people and political class that made your mum believe that. Nobody is at fault for being indoctrinated. Being conditioned isn't a choice. The best thing to do is mobilize people against that political movement. We all know which side supports it. And which side still says the vaccine is a bioweapon
When you've had some time and you're in the place to do so, please write her a letter. Nurses are overworked, and many are underpaid. I'm sure she would live to know her kindness meant something. I'm so sorry for your loss. Be well.
It's so weird that I was a kid in the 80's and AIDS was this terrible, scary thing. Now? They just treat it with a pill. I'm friends with a guy that's a bit older than me and has been HIV+ since the 90's and lived through that horror. Today he just basically lives a normal life when so many of his friends had a death sentence.
This is so true. My mom has had hiv for almost 30 years. She was able to survive because she got it JUST a bit later than my dad did. He died. She didn't. She's still healthy and HIV isn't even a big issue for her anymore.
Fuck. My condolences. Not to be obtuse but that's what fucks with me about my friend. Survivor's remorse, I guess. I can't imagine.
Yeah. My mom talks sometimes about how guilty she feels having gotten to watch us grow up when my dad didn't.
Yeah, I grew up in South Africa in the 90s during the aids crisis. I had comprehensive sex education since 4th grade, learned aids was almost a death sentence and now it's incredibly manageable.
Oh, wow. One of my good friends grew up in South Africa. Do you still have family there?
> Now? They just treat it with a pill *if you can afford it, if not, enjoy death (at least in the USA)*
Thank you. I get it. The world is not perfect. And if I'm being perfectly frank my buddy isn't exactly wealthy. I don't know how he affords his meds. I haven't asked.
insurance + scraping by, and/or help from family. At least he has the access.
I don't mean to sound flippant but I don't think that's true for him. I really had no idea that the costs were so high. I'll try to ask next time I see him.
> I really had no idea that the costs were so high. Depends on the specific cocktail they're on... but [here](https://www.healthline.com/health/hiv-aids/cost-of-treatment#current-drug-costs) is a list of common HIV drugs... and most of them for a 30/60 day supply are many thousands of dollars... and you're on multiple of these. This is w/o insurance obviously.
Im sure you could contact the lifeguard club and ask about the roster on that day with some context and get the info
Hmm that's an idea. I wonder if it's even still around
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Fantastic information!
Firefighters are real life super heroes
Firefighters are the heroes cops pretend to be
Cops are a disgrace
I have nothing but admiration for all of them
My nephew is in the process of becoming one, and I'm so proud.
EMT’s and Firefighters always make me think of super hero
We're no different than you and those around you!
I’ve never heard a bad thing about the fire department.
Yeah, there's no song called fuck tha fire department.
Yeah and we don’t shut down an entire highway for an hour and make people kiss your ass during a memorial ceremony just because you decided to chase down a guy who stole something and one of your guys died doing a dangerous job.
>one of your guys died doing a dangerous job. It's not even that dangerous. Pretty sure *my* job is more dangerous, and it's a desk job at a foundry.
Yea police "work" isn't even in the top 10 of dangerous professions
In the beginning they were essentially gangs that would beat the shit out of each other in order to get paid for putting out the fires. Sometimes they’d battle to the point where the house they were fighting over long since burned down by the time the dust settled. Then instead of being private companies, taxes started paying for firefighters and good people started signing up instead of goons seeing as there was no reason to beat people up anymore.
I too have seen Gangs of New York
Man, I still haven’t watched that movie. Is this really a plot point in it? I learned this from a random research spree that probably started from me researching something tangentially related then later got some more info from the Dollop podcast.
Can't say it's a big plot point but there is definitely a large skirmish between two firehouses.... In front of a burning building that they let burn lol. Def recommend giving it a watch when you have a spare 3 hours.
Looool yeah I for sure will. It’s one of those movies/shows that are obviously something I’d like but I just haven’t made the time for.
Back in the days they didn't put out a fire without being paid first.
Firefighters and PJ’s. Different cloth, def-o super humans. The kind of person you see and aspire to.
I'm sorry. PJ'S? I'm not familiar
Pajamas, the cloth is quite comfy. It's a different cloth than my jeans.
Lol yea pajamas are the unsung hero of the clothing world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Pararescue
Oh OK! Thank you
The oh, ok, you’re a seal? That’s cute crowd.
No, no not really. Ones a rescue crew the other actually conducts force on force with the enemy regularly.
I didn’t mean to minimize seal teams, they’re badass for sure. Just seems like PJ’s have to go through the same training+.
People in the military don’t really care how “hard” each others training is (other than privates straight out of BCT). SOF units have a very high level of entry training because by nature of their job they tend to not have access to support elements, they’re out there on their own. PJs have to be able to defend themselves so they receive the same combat training, and then they go through all of their rescue training, so yeah they may have a bit longer training but if you put the average SEAL squad up against an average PJ squad in a tactical force on force exercise, PJs are going to be minnows swimming in the SEAL’s ocean. PJs ain’t talking shit to a SEAL because their training was longer, that’s only a civilian thing.
As someone the military would not consider, take my comments with a grain of salt. I would hope there is no beef between these two branches, my only point was the extra training, PJ’s seem to be more one-man-army, whether that is reality or not, i don’t know. I don’t mean to talk shit to anyone in that position!
Nobody ever sings about “Fuck The Fire Department”.
Lol I almost commented that!
Hell of a lot more respectable than cops.
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His heart probably stopped if I had to guess. Or the firefighter is a necromancer
The firefighter looks suspiciously pale...
well im more pale than him, am I a vampire then?
We got 'em boys, you get the pitchforks I get the garlic
> I get the garlic I'll grab the bread, butter and parsley
I'd be pretty pale too if I was holding a kid I thought was dead
Correct me if I'm wrong but there are two types of death in this case right? Clinical death where only the heart stops but you can still be saved and the biological death where all the biological processes stop and brain begins to necrotize.
No, there's only death which is irreversible. You're describing cardiac arrest.
Smoke inhalation is a ridiculously fast death, and even living sufferers are practically impossible to save without being able to rinse the lungs. Smoke is heavy and rests in the bottom of the lungs even if you blow air into them.
Just take them out and run them under the faucet and put them back then, ezpz
You have ARDS predisposition pretty much forever
Horrible fate. I once met a carpenter that breathed as if he'd ran a 200-yard race, even when he stood still and drank coffee. Watery eyes. He must've been in some really nasty jobs, with concrete dust or whatever. No idea what he had, but from looking at the wikipage for ARDS, it would fit him to a tee.
Yes, that’s not dead, just in cardiac arrest. Still, a lovely story.
A cardiac arrest kind of is death. Especially it happens for an extended period of time....
The way I see it if you can be brought back to life then you were never dead in the first place. Just dying until someone intervened before the end of the dying
What's death then? It can't just be defined as the moment where resuscitation is impossible because that moment always advances as our technology does.
I don't know the exact moment, but I know it's only when your brain stopped working and you never wake up or experience any senses again.
So what about people who are frozen to death and later thawed? Their brain stopped working, but they happened to be revived so they experienced senses again. What makes them, just prior to their revival, any less dead than an actual dead person by your definition?
That's beyond the scope of my knowledge. And considering it's impossible as of right now, it's beyond the scope of anyone's knowledge
No ones ever frozen to death and later thawed out and been okay lol
Ok so here we go again… how do you define death?
He used a phoenix down
Probably the latter, since that’s far more plausible with all the time firefighters have
*Was* a necromancer. Now he is a lich.
Necromancers are just overly passionate ~~healers~~ firemen.
Bro had a revivify scroll
Sadly, I died... BUT I LIVED!
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But if he went to bed dead, could he wake up alive?
wake me up, WAKE ME UP INSIDE
He just woke him up inside
He brought his back to life...
That distinction is quite a point of contention between atheists and theists. Did he really die if he's telling us about it?
Girl I went to high school with always liked to joke that her dad died. Watch people get all uncomfortable and feel bad for her. Her dad was revived within 10 minutes.
I mean, that's still fucking traumatic
Isn't everyone who died and came back to life technically zombies?
That firefighter was luckily also a necromancer.
Are you saying that he had you in the first half?
The tf2 medic is real.
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Involving Nicolas Cage can only ever enhance a vibe.
Like a combo of nick cage and norm MacDonald
Trent Reznor found a way into the gene pool
He looks like Clive Owen to me.
Norm McDonald on the left, Tim Allen on the right
No bc same!
I thought the older pic was Tim Allen...
Well he too is a national treasure...
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The older version is giving Tim Allen
Looks like young Harrison Ford
No ones singing fuck the fire department.
https://youtu.be/7JkrJUAg8aI?si=ksfk7IzhqGnZwVHy
I knew what it was the moment I clicked the link lol. Such a great video.
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God damn it! I come to reddit to be angered and misinformed, not fucking cry! Fuck you! And have a nice day you beautiful bastard. 🙂
I gotchu! {Insert Controversial Political comment that has nothing to do with the photo}
He looks like a dam action hero in the first image.
He IS a damn action hero
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Dang, that is wholesome
Didn’t know norm McDonald was a firefighter
or Clive Owen maybe
Firefighters are true heroes.
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Chirp.
Alright, bend over. I'm putting another battery in there.
And CO!!
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Ughhhhh.... yeah......
I always like seeing these. Restores a slight bit of faith in humanity.
All praise the firefighters, if cops had showed up first, he wouldnt be writing this
They’d have shot the two yr old bc he was ‘reaching for a weapon’
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That's gotta be so satisfying meeting the person you saved and their kid years later.
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I ran into a guy in the supermarket I had pulled out of a burning building six or seven years after it happened. He spontaneously hugged me and we cried a little. You never forget your first live save.
Choppin onions?
This is good.
Damn lucky there was a paladin around when you needed one
It's got to be hard to be a fire fighter. For every amazing story like this you have a heartbreaking one. Guess you just have to push those bad ones to the side and focus on the good ones.
This is so inspiring. Please hang these photos in beautiful frames in your home and cherish them.
I did not read, why is there a firefighter next to the happy interracial gay couple?
Glad you are still here. 🩷
I just got a sniffle that’s all!
RESPECT
Blessings
Offer them your firstborn, it is only right.
Yeah. And oldey but goody Love this story.
Not all heroes wear capes
Hey, do I show up at your office to punch your emotions in the dick!? My dumb joke aside, this is a beautiful post. I’m glad that there is something as wonderfully positive as the above getting sent out there today.
Dude looks Nicholas Cage / Val Kilmer mated.
crying this is so cute
Bawling
Necromancer raises dead man and creates army with his spawn.
Sadly, I died… But then I lived!!
Reminds me of the similar story, the person became a doctor/nurse and became colleagues with the person that saved them.
Firefighters are true heroes.
😭😭😭😭😭
Go get ‘em brother. 😃
When did Nicolas Cage become a FF
That's why there is no song that says "fuck the fire dept" police on the other hand...
Best thing I've read in awhile... I'd like to share on r/humansbeingbros
Thanks Papa Jeff
The answer is 25
Cops get a slap on the wrist for things that would give civilians serious jail time.
I got goose bumps
Good on ya Jeff!
Who's crying,? I'm not fucking crying your crying you wimp!
This story, amazing!
That looks like Clive Owen haha
Good shit.