Flatbush Hatzoloh: Heeding The Call - Where We Started

no one believed that bunch of young from guys are going to really do this thing there a bunch of schleppers what are we right the typical Atela person had an oxygen tank and a mask and a beeper and that was it I am a flaish boy and I watch at salak roll pretty much from its infancy to what it has become and I always idolized those Heroes [Music] my name's has Weber and I'm the founder from that solo I knew flat bush is going to be big I knew flat bush is covered a lot of M the guy gross s and he fell to the floor M his feet his head touched my feet right in front of [Music] me and he's gring for breath and in till till the police came I soon left I heard one cop say to the other cup a shame we came so late we've been here earlier we could have saved this guy the guy is still warm I can see he just passed out what would you do if you have been here already he says what are you talking about we would have G oxygen we would have do something I went to buy an oxygen tank the guy asked me if I know how to use it I said no I have no idea I have no idea how to use it so they teach me I learn how to use it we're friends as babies with the we cut school together we hung out together then we went together to later I if you remember used to come to every day he had his father-in-law there was no and he would come with his grandfather and we got on his case we got on his case to say we need not s on this NE to room 35 upstairs in Mir he came with four tanks you didn't turn them on just with a with a handle you had to put in a wrench and turn it on it was a whole big Spiel this is not solid tanks he says us he said other things and when you go to somebody's house okay and he has chest pains you give him oxygen your job is not to play doctor he said your job is to make an arrangement with a local Ambulance Service which we did Midwood Ambulance Service we arranged with and that was our job so we as to what if a guy has a broken leg give him oxygen he says what if a guy has a headache give him oxygen he hands us all a first aid book bre cross first a book read the book and you find hands a thousand a thousand stickers go give it out I said AR you crazy we don't know nothing we going to read the book it'll start it'll go it'll be wonderful don't worry about it and he walked out it was really scary we're going to pick people's in lives in our hands but you know what it worked understood how big all is going to be like who was Torah t t Tor he told the we all Mara Isaac P train go for it and they were all good guys you know and and and he did he held understood how important it Wasa held don't mix in he held later on on Ro could be problems because of it and if you make him leave the car there they won't want to join he when we first asked him about shabas he is whether we should come back and then he says well you might have another call we all started laughing cuz we had you know we had one call a week two call who weak the most it was in aod Avenue H people learning there at night and there was a cardiac arrest and they called hatala raban bender and Isaac gunger came to the call started doing CPR they were exhausted they depleted their oxygen finally after 45 minutes the City ambulance came needless to say this person did not make it there's a person there who was watching all this a couple days later he was on the train and he saw a rising wolf in Shalom and he started a conversation with him and told him over the story and said listen you work with Yan Boda why can't we just raise the money and get an name within a week or two we started a campaign the whole ambulance cost $21,000 we raised the money in a couple of weeks brought the ambulance and that was the history of our first F1 beloved by many members there's one phone number that's all's number which actually was shot's laboratory phone number and that's one of the reasons it got publicized because everybody who had a jacket and checked shotas had the Hol number inside their label on their jacket so if you have an emergency you want to see your jacket the setup at saw in those days there was no money CL was to not spend we bought everything we were the first ones to to pay for the EMT classes we paid the members for going to the EMT CL other neighbors you have to pay yourself first was held actually in the Auda where 901 is parked today and it was uh 30 or 40 members that was the whole thing we should mention that good that they gave us our first garage I remember the first time I went on the call and say the night you I came home the kids were all sleeping you know aish imagine he's waiting and waiting for the say went the wife was putting in tremendous preparing a meal and I went out I came back 12:00 at that I all the kids sleeping was depressing but you know what so what we believed in what we were doing and and we spent money we raised a lot of money the two of us had to go out raise money together people and then they trusted us that's a really bad line they really trusted us I Can't Describe what it's like you know I'm the backup dispatcher least the backup on Friday night and your phone rings and you have the matter what I got up you know it is to be middle of sleep pick up the phone and just be normal you know have wake up middle of the night you know it's not gmak but it was a mom and pop show and it worked