The eighteen month old baby was turning blue when the firefighters arrived. There was a life and death decision that had to be made and the Virginia firemen chose to transport the baby in the fire truck in order to get it to the hospital as quickly as possible.
James Kelley, the twenty-year veteran fire fighter and his colleague had to make a calculated choice to drive the child to the hospital, as waiting for another emergency vehicle to arrive to transport would have put the baby’s life in grave danger.
The fire fighters have now been suspended because of their choice to transport the child in the engine. According to Kelly, he and his colleague were suspended because the engine in not a licensed transport unit.
Instead of being haled heroes for making this choice and ultimately saving the baby’s life, they are now having to sit at home and wait for their suspension to be lifted.
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Unbelievable. Stupid rules. Rules like this are made to be broken. Heroes for saving this child
he should be honored, not supspended.
The problem here is, had he let the baby die, he would have lost his job and sued for the death by the family, instead he saved the life, suspension and kept his job…
It’s a fucked up way of looking at it, but that’s reality in this fucked up society, you’re damn if you do, damn if you dont….
Keep doing what you’re doing, great job….
This country has to many idiots in charge. soon the police and firefighters will be afraid to their job, THEN WHAT? No fire fighter service no police. America get your head out of your$#%&!@*
How dumb they are
I’m not going to pretend to know all of the details to this particular situation but I will say this, If I were to ever find myself in a life or death situation with one of my childen or a grandchild, I would hope that whoever arrived would be willing to consider my childs life to be more important than department protocol or policy. There are exceptions to almost every rule. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to.
I would have done the same, regardless of the outcome. The department should retract the suspension, pay any lost wages, and issue a commendation for going above and beyond the fire fighter’s duty.
That shows how stupid some people are
No good deed goes unpunished.
Of all the stupid thins!! They should be HEROS!!