The first thing I was taught in EMT school and was drilled into all of our brains throughout was that your safety comes before anything else followed by your partner’s safety then the patient’s. To that end the most dangerous types of calls we end up going to are calls with a lot of unknowns. These include 911 hang-ups, life alert or similar activations, and flag downs. On one of my recent CPMU shifts I was flagged for what appeared to be an injury at [redacted location]. Upon making contact with the patient, I asked “what happened” (as I do for any patient who is not apneic) to which she replied that she was assaulted with a weapon. For these call types, normally the 911 dispatcher would screen for this type of thing and if a danger was present, we would allow for the police to make contact before us. So the first thing for me to do in this situation right away is call for the police, and at CPMU we are fortunate enough to carry police radios and be able to request them directly; “Park Medical central can you have a park unit 85 me non-emergency at [redacted location] in regards to a 24 of a female.” “10-4 Park Medical, Park Adam read?” So now that the police are on the way and I ensure that the assailant is not in the area I immediately begin looking for life-threatening injuries of which there are none obvious. The patient was struck multiple times in the head and had a sizable laceration to one of her limbs. Once the police are on scene it becomes somewhat chaotic and stressful for the patient as they are berraded with questions about the perp, from us about medical history, etc. and it is our job to do our best to mitigate the stress for the patient. Learning experiences from this incident, even somewhat benign-sounding calls can be quite dangerous if not taken seriously, and situational awareness is key for safety of everyone involved.