Susan then spent the better part of an hour, explaining the situation to the ranking fireman and one of the local police officers. She had no doubts that her own police report was going to be a hefty one. The electric company was called to kill the electricity to the building, while lights were rigged to look for survivors in the rubble. Susan doubted they would find any, and gave them the probable body count. In the process, she remembered the body inside the building and officers were sent in to collect both the body and fingerprints.
Eventually, they moved the cement off of Thomas and Susan noticed that it looked awful. He'd been right that there were no bones sticking out, but he'd still lost quite a bit of blood onto the pavement as far as she was concerned. He'd already had an I.V. and some monitoring equipment put onto him when the ambulance had arrived, but now the paramedics went into action. Thomas' leg was splinted, and he was strapped down to a board with a neck brace on, despite his protests that he could feel his toes, so his spine must be okay.
It seemed as though the local officers had everything well in hand, so she left her card with them and asked them to fax her a copy of their preliminary report, before hopping into the ambulance with Thomas. They must have given him something for the pain, as he was starting to drift in and out of sleep. She noticed with some amusement that it was hampering his half-hearted attempts to hit on one of the paramedics, a blonde woman named Stacey, who didn't seem to be buying into it anyway.
