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“I saw a head-on collision between two SUVs on a remote road, 100 km from the closet hospital. I was first on the scene. I pulled bodies from burning vehicles after breaking windows. My shirt caught on fire pulling people out. Me and two other people attempted CPR on four of the six people, until they died in our arms. Many of them were missing body parts or CPR was not possible due to severe facial injuries. One man kept reaching up to me, asking if he was going to die. He told me he couldn’t breathe, and his lungs were perforated. I told him he was loved and was with people who cared for him. The vehicles caught on fire, causing a forest fire all around us that had to be put out with a helicopter hours later. I found a baby lying facedown on the road and placed it on whom I thought was the mom while doing CPR. In the end, the baby and mother were the only ones of all eight who lived. So many people’s lives were destroyed that day. I still have PTSD from the experience.”
“During the hour that it took for EMS to get to the scene, a bear walked through the scene, probably due to the smell of blood, and we had to constantly scare it away. I watched two people burn to death because I could not reach them through the fire. I tried to save them. I was covered in blood, body fluids, and bone chips. I found a tooth in my pocket after.
The smells, sounds, and textures were all so vivid that I often get flashbacks. I’m emotional writing this. Since then, I have had many horrifying dreams, but the dreams that stand out most are dreams of meeting the people who died. In the dreams, they tell me positive words of encouragement and appreciation. They even laugh and joke about life. It’s weird. I tried everything I could do to help, I promise. I tried.”
—u/imspine
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/pernellquilon/most-terrifying-things-witnessed-firsthand
