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Posted on 04/15/2016 9:41:10 PM PDT by VanShuyten
One of the two firefighters who were shot Friday night in Maryland has died of his injuries, officials confirmed late Friday.
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The incident began at about 7:30 p.m., when firefighters and police received a 911 call from a "concerned individual" who was worried about the resident of a home in the 5000 block of Sharon Road in Temple Hills in Prince George's County, Stawinski said.
The firefighters tried to communicate with the resident, but there was no response. As they tried to go into the house to help the resident, the resident fired several rounds that hit the two firefighters and the concerned person who called 911, Stawinski and Deputy Fire Chief Benjamin Barksdale said.
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Wouldn’t safety protocol call for waiting for the police?
I used to work at that very fire station.
This was an ambulance call. EMTs are under the fire department in Prince George’s County.
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what a shame.
“Unclear if shooter was a mental case or criminal.”
What distinguishes the two?
Aren’t they one and the same?
He was mentally competent enough to fire the gun.
One of Obama’s sons?
We responded to a 911 hang-up caller. When we got there the door was locked but we saw an upstairs window open. I climbed through the upstairs window and came down the stairs. A man was sitting on the couch naked with a handgun. I asked him if he was OK and he pointed the gun at me and started pulling the trigger and fiddling with it but the gun did not fire. I quickly exited the building.
After the police arrived we were all waiting outside for the guy to give himself up. He ran out the back door and into his garage still naked and with his gun. A couple minutes later he started up a lawn mower. The officer in charge asked me if the exhaust from the lawn mower would kill him. I said not for quite a while. So we waited.
We heard the guy coughing and after a few minutes he came out still naked without his gun and gave himself up.
I assumed that the gun wasn’t loaded and he was just trying to scare me, but the police found the gun and told me that he had put the bullets in backwards. I am not sure if they meant that the magazine was in backwards in the gun, or the bullets were in the magazine backwards. I don’t think it is possible to do either in any of the hand guns that I own.
It happened in the middle of a busy shift and the whole situation was so weird and off the wall that my guys and I didn’t take it seriously at the time. But afterwards we did realize that if the guy wasn’t such a psycho idiot he might have actually hurt someone.
Our EMS always stage near the scene until law enforcement declares it safe. I wonder why these folks don’t take the same precautions.
Wow! Thank God you guys got through that okay! And thanks for doing a job most people definitely would not do.
Thank you for that, but it was a really great job. Most guys and many women would love to do it.
No, some mental cases, the criminally insane, can be extremely violent and they want to prove it to you. They’re time bombs. These are not the same as most run of the mill bad guy crooks.
In this case here I suspect drugs/mental case. But who knows.
We staged for the police at events that our dispatchers thought might be dangerous. But just like this event, many times there is no indication that there are going to be problems. Often crazy people would unexpectedly get violent after we got there. Most of the time things end up being more humorous than dangerous.
One time we were staging a block away and a deaf guy came running up to our fire engine all excited and was insistent that we come up to the scene. We thought that if the best person the people at the scene had to send out for help was someone who couldn’t speak that it must be pretty serious.
Actually the deaf guy had been fighting with his girl friend and neither of them was really hurt, but they had been making a lot of noise and the neighbors were upset. Once an interpreter showed up and everything calmed down, we all just left them to their own devices and didn’t get called back again.
That’s the same with my husband’s department. He’s a firefighter and paramedic. Unless it’s called in as a dangerous situation the police don’t go on the call. But they’ve come across many dangerous situations, crazy people, criminals, paranoid from drug use, etc... My husband has chronic back pain from having to jump on 300 pound guys (he weighs 190) acting crazy, sometimes it’s because they’re having a seizure or reaction to medication, not at all what one would think of initially as a dangerous situation.
“In this case here I suspect drugs/mental case. But who knows.”
When ever there is a high profile violent crime, we as a society arbitrarily proclaim that the perpetrator is either insane or evil. By doing that, we place blame for the violent act on the mental illness and not the person.
Putting the bullets in the magazine backwards is possible with some firearms, but putting the magazine in backwards won’t work with most handguns.
Bath salts are the best salts!
Do I really need the /s?
In a similar vein, I listen to my boyhood hometown’s police scanner on the TuneIn app while I’m shaving in the morning. Eye opening. I can’t believe all the crap a) that goes on, and b) that cops have to put up with. One day this week a high school’s security guard called for backup...to stop a fight in the cafeteria during the free federal breakfast. Unbelievable. It’s been an eye opener, no pun intended.
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