Common sense has completely left the country. The day when a little girls life is less important than maintaining policy, regarding the use of a publicly paid for vehicle, that’s the day when we have lost all sense of common sense and human compassion. This should make your blood boil.
FoxNewsInsider: Two Virginia volunteer firefighters have been suspended for taking a little girl to the hospital in a fire truck.
Capt. James Kelley and Sgt. Virgil Bloom are volunteer responders with the fire department in Fredericksburg.
They responded to a call near a local McDonald’s after a man reported that his 18-month-old daughter was having a seizure.
Capt. Kelley said that as soon as he saw the girl, he turned and looked at his driver.
“She was completely limp and flaccid,” he told Fox 5 DC. “Without any hesitation, I said, ‘we’re going to the hospital.’”
Kelley said that he didn’t know if paramedics would get there in time, because a previous call location for the nearest medic suggested it would be another 10 to 15 minutes.
The girl’s father says she is now doing fine. He called the firefighters heroes for saving his daughter’s life.
“As a parent, you feel extremely helpless to be unable to assist the most important person in the world (your child) during such a time of emergency,” Brian Nunamaker wrote to Fox 5.
“The eternity of waiting for help to arrive was surprisingly non-existent in this situation. I was surprised at how quickly help had arrived in the form of a fire truck.”
The long and short of it, the volunteer fire fighters could get the child to lifesaving care faster and more efficiently considering the circumstances and now they are without jobs. Go figure.
The Blaze: Captain James Kelley and Sgt. Virgil Bloom from the Falmouth Volunteer Fire Department in Fredericksburg were suspended for their actions last Saturday after they were the first responders to answer a call coming from a little girl’s father near a McDonald’s restaurant, according to WTTG-TV. The father had reported that his 18-month-old daughter was having a seizure and required a hospital, and according to Kelley it would have taken at least 10 to 15 minutes before the nearest medic could arrive at the restaurant and provide assistance.
That’s when the two firefighters decided to take the matter into their own hands.
Kelley and Bloom took the little girl with them into the fire engine and began the trek to Mary Washington Hospital, and Kelley said that the toddler immediately was put on oxygen in the fire engine and arrived inside the hospital’s trauma room within 13 minutes of the time the call had first come in, WTTG reported. Although an ambulance requested to meet the firefighters near the hospital to finish the journey, Kelley ultimately denied the request.
Brian Nunamaker, the girl’s father, spoke to WTTG one week after the incident occurred, insisting that he credited the firefighters’ quick thinking and actions with saving his daughter’s life.
“As a parent, you feel extremely helpless to be unable to assist the most important person in the world [your child] during such a time of emergency,” Nunamaker said, according to WTTG. “Worst case scenarios run through your head while you are hoping for the best. The eternity of waiting for help to arrive was surprisingly non-existent in this situation. I was surprised at how quickly help had arrived in the form of a fire truck.”