DEFY TIME | Hatzolah of Central Jersey 2025

[Music] I was driving home from work. All of a sudden, I I see a boy frantically trying to stop traffic. I'm like, "What's going on?" I thought maybe he wanted a hitch and he's pointing at at another bucker that's that's lying on the floor. Not knowing exactly what to do, I called Hatsah. Hatso. Hi, I'm going to report an accident. There's a buck lying on the ground on the street unresponsive. What's the address? The corner of Lane's Mill and Alvarado. It's a high priority full ALS and units available in Lakewood, Plains Mill, and Cedar Road for pedestrian truck. I was in my kitchen preparing Vontiff and right after I put the meat into the oven, a call came out on the radio for a pedestrian struck. Very close proximity to where I was. It was down the block. I ran out of my house, jumped in my car. Lane 52. Somebody distracted by a car on the road. Didn't see no road. There was a boy that was hit. There's a boy lying here unconscious. We don't know what to do. There's a boy here. Duck been hit by a car. I was the first person on the scene. I saw the look on the faces of the bystanders, the panic that they had in their eyes, in their in their body language, and it it was it was something I'll never forget. The patient was not conscious. He was unresponsive, and his airway was not secure at all. As first responders, prehosp care is to make sure that the patient's airway is secure. So, that's really what I was focusing on. Right away, I updated my fellow members and paramedics as to what we have on scene and to pretty much expedite their response. 47 back in 47. We went from zero to 100 in a matter of seconds, knowing that we're potentially uh responding to a super critical patient. We have a rig stationed about a 1 minute drive from my house. I right away started heading towards the ambulance. patient had catastrophic facial and head injury and needed immediate transport to a trauma center with operating room capabilities. At that point, it became very obvious that his airway was compromised. What we needed to do was to intubate him to secure his airway. Because he was somewhat awake, we would need to sedate and paralyze him in order to be able to intubate him safely. In trauma in general, what we call is the golden hour. Getting into a controlled environment is very, very important for patients survival. It's scoop and run as quick as you can. Obviously, stabilizing the patient as best as we can with the tools we have in the field, but ultimately getting into the trauma room is is critical for a patient in such a critical state. This is paramedic 7235 with a trauma alert. The time of from when the call was actually dispatched till we were in the trauma room was probably under under 20 minutes. We had a full team waiting for us and they right away started care in the trauma room for the patient. At this point, we had no identification of the patient. We had no idea who the patient was. Multiple organizations had gotten together. They were canvasing the neighborhood trying to figure out potentially he's from one of these Shivas, potentially he was a guest by somebody. It was a few hours to Shuis and for all we know his parents sent their bakar off to yeshiva. They think he's sitting alone learning the entire shooiz when in the meantime he's in critical surgery in Jersey Shore. We spent at least another hour, hour and a half on scene collecting video footage trying to piece the puzzle together where the patient came from and where the patient was going so that we can try to get a name on the patient and somebody that possibly has a positive identity on the patient. [Music] I got a phone call from Rabbi Islam's son. There was a B I found by the corner. It looks like it's in an a book of m of the state. We should go through all the Basa. I should look at the picture and see figure out which one it is. So I uh they sent me the picture and I told them I'm sorry to tell you it looks like my son from Woodlick. I couldn't get the picture out of my mind. So I was in the formula of Islamitz. So he said you know what for your naran call yeshiva to see if his name I called yeshiva right when I called I asked and the bak didn't want to answer and I don't know which meant but they came with his glasses and I knew right away it was [Music] him hashem 13 days after the accident he woke up totally talking was in the hospital for another 10 days after that and then they transferred him to Kesler rehabilitation for 3 weeks and then he came home. Obviously duram is the one that saved his life but the fact that we got him into the trauma room in less than a half an hour from when the impact happened is what ultimately saved his life. Our first EMT was on scene within 45 seconds, followed by another uh member about 5 seconds later, followed by our first paramedic about uh 20 seconds later, followed by the medic truck about 20 seconds after that. So within 3 minutes, we had a full response. In order to make a response like this possible, it's not only about the individual call, the individual responders that responded. It's about being able to have a machine that is always ready that enables and facilitates this type of response whenever, wherever. Nothing that we do would be possible without the tremendous that Hashem shows us and our members and the every single day. Yet, we need to do ouras. Hatsula does itsadlas by constantly innovating, constantly advancing, constantly growing. Now, we ask our partners, the community, to help us continue growing in that way, to help make answering the call possible. Heat. Heat. [Music]