A six-person team of Austin-Travis County EMS medics and Austin firefighters counted to three before they hoisted a 78-year-old man onto a gurney outside his home in Southeast Travis County.
The man had fallen outside his home three days earlier and was able to crawl inside. He said he called 911 for help after he realized his strength was not coming back enough to pick himself up off the ground.
Medics treated him in the back of an ambulance, hanging IVs, taking his blood pressure and pulse. The medics also checked for additional injuries after seeing the man couldn’t bend one of his knees…