One of my EMT roles was on an airbase. I was the only 24/7 medic for 8000~ people, but that either meant I was being constantly called out or not at all. One day my only call was being safety standby for a suspicious package that might be a bomb. It was in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut and we only had one EOD technician covering the entire region. Because I figured what the hell I've never seen a bomb before and it wasn't cordoned off by police, I walked up to the parking lot and looked at it. It was a box with a trashbag inside. I had to sit there in an ambulance for six hours waiting for an EOD tech to declare it to be a non-explosive trashbag before I could go back to the station. The rest of the night was spent playing Civilisation IV because nobody had an emergency.
One of my EMT roles was on an airbase. I was the only 24/7 medic for 8000~ people, but that either meant I was being constantly called out or not at all. One day my only call was being safety standby for a suspicious package that might be a bomb. It was in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut and we only had one EOD technician covering the entire region. Because I figured what the hell I've never seen a bomb before and it wasn't cordoned off by police, I walked up to the parking lot and looked at it. It was a box with a trashbag inside. I had to sit there in an ambulance for six hours waiting for an EOD tech to declare it to be a non-explosive trashbag before I could go back to the station. The rest of the night was spent playing Civilisation IV because nobody had an emergency.