SUNSTAR PARAMEDICS missed dealings
OMG who knows how many opportunities to shuffle crack and shit that these folks missed actually SAVING A LIFE????? AND, OF COURSE it involves fire.
MY GOD ALSTOTT BUY THEM A TURKEY. AND SOME PIE. I'll send the whipped cream.
They look a little mad. Not in a good way.
November 26, 2008
Ambulance team rescues Largo woman from fire
A Pinellas County ambulance crew carried a 55-year-old woman from a burning home early today.
The pair, who did not have safety equipment or fire rescue training, risked their lives, said Largo fire Chief Mike Wallace.
"They had clearly entered an environment that was dangerous. They inhaled smoke and carbon monoxide. This was a great personal risk to do what they did," Wallace said.
Joshua Schuster (left in photos) and Michelle Molendyk (right) were just heading out of Sunstar headquarters on Ulmerton Road this morning when they saw smoke in the sky. They drove across the street to the Indian Rocks Estates Mobile Home park to investigate and discovered the back half of a mobile home engulfed in flames.
Around that time, just before 8 a.m., emergency personnel received calls of a fire at the park at lot No. 34 at 12701 126th Ave N.
Park residents told the ambulance team that someone lived in the home. Molendyk and Schuster entered the front door of the burning unit and found the woman unconscious near the door. They carried her outside, where they provided medical care.
The team said they had to try to save her even though they knew it was risky.
"It's another life," said Schuster, an assistant supervisor for Sunstar.
"I just had to get her out and get her away from the building," said Molendyk, an emergency medical technician and field training officer. "It was going up so fast."
The woman, Doris Williams, sustained burns on about 15 percent of her body and was flown by medical helicopter to Tampa General Hospital, authorities said. As of 3 p.m. today, she was in critical condition.
"I really hope she's going to make it," Molendyk said.
The ambulance crew was the first on the scene. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, which destroyed the home.
Sheriff's Office Arson Unit detectives and State Fire Marshal’s investigators were called to the scene, which is routine in cases where someone sustains serious injuries. The fire appears unintentional, but the cause has not been determined, detectives say.
[Photos: Atoyia Deans, Times]
Posted by Times Editor at 3:45:22 PM on November 26, 2008 in Pinellas Permalink
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Well, certainly getting the arson team out there will make a big difference.
It's always convenient to get everyone on scene at the same time so that THEY CAN GET THE STORY STRAIGHT.
In other, nicer thoughts before these fuckwads started stalking my ass I figure these MIGHT be the only two folks working for sunstar who aren't dealing crack, screwing the patients on the way to the hospital, robbing them or just plain sitting in the library staring at patrons or driving by blaring sirens for no apparent reason.
I guess that's possible.