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A group of firefighters carrying an unconscious Jude

Sarah rushed over to the group, trying to get close enough to examine the man they carried

“Bring hi God that the transport crew had just come and emptied the room minutes before

Shelley was there, wiping down the bed and throwing a clean sheet over it even as the men set Jude down

Ien on hiet telemetry hooked up She flinched at the deep purplish bruises across his ribs, across his shoulder, but said a silent little thank you at the strong beep that filled the roo sound

“He insisted the three ambulances at the scene take the others, rather than him, that he’d wait until another showed up,” one of the men she’d met at the fire hall said

“When he lost consciousness, we decided there wasn’t tiaze focusing in on what Sarah was doing and helping her get Jude situated on the bed as she cleaned a spot to start an intraosseous line “So we loaded hiht him in the fire truck”

“Got hiotten to us,” another of the crew Sarah had otten him here”

Even while she listened to his crew tell about how Jude had gone rogue to rescue the Millers and had the had caved in, she, Shelley and another nurse worked on hirunt from Jude

That grunt was priceless, though, because it meant he had felt pain, that he was in there

“Heup a beam for the Millers to crawl beneath After the couple had cleared the building, they were that close, he tried to clear hiered another cave-in that trapped him beneath rubble”

“Roger there had tried to go back in the ston wo any of us when the Millers came out and we realized he was trapped twenty feet or so from an exit”

Thank God Roger and whoever else of Jude’s crew had gone back in

His blood pressure was low, his pulse slightly elevated His oxygen was lower than it should be but not dangerously so Yet

Sarah gave another order to Shelley, preparing to establish an airway She needed to get Jude stable, to be prepared for any scenario, so they could get scans to check for internal injuries in case of hee