Posts by taylork

I am a veteran and an emergency responder at the company I’ve worked for 17 years – Rockwell Automation. My emergency appeared one Saturday morning while driving one of my sons and his friend home from youth football. As I entered a roundabout, I noticed a large crowd gathered along the road and traffic backed…

I was just a young girl when it happened. There was a large wooded area behind our house. My father burned foliage every year to keep it open in case of trespassers. This particular year, the fire got out of control. Rather than take me out of the woods, he brought me deeper in, set…

!! Read to the end for a plot twist !! Some background for the fateful day: It was December, 2019. I was a junior in college and just beginning to flourish. I had just spent the past few months familiarizing myself with popular outdoor pursuits, such as backpacking and climbing, via group outings with my…

We were sitting in our house with family and friends enjoying each other’s company. While we were eating, my wife started coughing. She stood up rapidly and began to gag. Everyone just sat and asked the normal question, ‘are you okay?’ ‘Just drink some drink and wash it down,’ they said. I noticed she was…

Well, my story is not the most exciting one I have ever experienced, but I learned the most from it. I was very early into my career in law enforcement, and I had gotten off of work late at night. It was early February, and around 20 degrees. I lived about 30-40 minutes from my…

I was backpacking in the Trinity Alps Wilderness in CA with my wife. The topo maps we had gathered to plan our hike were found to be wrong due to flood damage just before the season (too late to make changes). The plan was for a 10 day trip, but that changed. After hiking twice…

I was in my Dad’s woodworking shop cutting some boards. I was in a hurry. I forgot to lower the sawblade on his table saw. In a moment of stupidity and forgetfulness, I reached over the blade with my right hand and made contact with my thumb and pointer finger on the blade. I immediately…

I am a construction worker. I was drilling into the concrete deck above me when the concrete spalled – there was concrete and metal reinforcement everywhere. I lost my balance, fell from ladder, and realized I was having vision issues. I drove myself to the nearest hospital to get checked out and found that I…

While driving back work, I noticed a car that appeared to have made a slow speed impact into a telephone pole at an intersection near the entrance of the university I was working at. As I got closer, I saw that a male was removing an elderly woman from the car and laying her on…

Deer season, early bow hunting in the Adirondacks Mountains, 1992. I was in a hurry to get out hunting, and I brought 2 friends. We left my truck, and off we went into Sand Lake. Not long after, we had Tony stay on the trail, and Ron and I went to the lake. Within an…