Judge has ruled in the Delaware City (DE) EMS LODD

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From G's TSL:

In Delaware this week, a Superior Court Judge has ruled that a Delaware

City ambulance

driver killed while tending to an injured man on a median was a

" firefighter " under

state law. The reported drunk, paraplegic, license suspended career

criminal driving

the car, ph Taye, was driving using a " stick " to attempt to control

the gas

and brakes.

Taye's attorney has conceded that his client was driving the car that hit

and that his client's actions were " less than careful " that night.

Judge Jerome Herlihy made the ruling Wednesday in the bench trial of

29-year-old

ph Taye, who is charged in the Line of Duty death of in

December

2008. Under state law, a person who kills a Firefighter on duty can be

charged with

murder. But Herlihy says his ruling is preliminary and is not his final

ruling on

the facts. Taye's attorney conceded that his client was driving the car

that hit

and that his client's actions were " less than careful " that night.

But he

had argued that state law doesn't define firefighter and was acting

as an

ambulance driver. This MAY be a good wake up call for all to check what

YOUR STATE

defines as a Firefighter.

As you may recall, it started with a motorcycle crash occurred last

December. The

operator of the bike, Reiss, was injured in the incident and was

lying in

the roadway. A Delaware City Fire Company ambulance (standing by to cover

that

area for the Wilmington Manor Fire Company) arrived on the scene within

minutes

and DCFC FF got out of the ambulance, ran over to Mr. Reiss

and began

to administer care.

A New Castle County Police Officer then arrived on the scene and activates

his emergency

equipment.

Moments later, veteran career criminal Taye, driving someone else's BMW

southbound

on Route 13 entered the crash scene and sideswiped the county police car

causing

significant damage. The Police officer leaped back into his car just prior

to the

impact and avoids injury. Taye loses control and strikes and Reiss.

The BMW

comes to a stop on the right shoulder south of the crash scene.

later dies

in the Line of Duty.

At that point, a light colored Honda pulls up to the crash scene. The

operator of

the Honda, an unidentified black male, ACTUALLY HELPS TAYE into the Honda

(Taye

is unable to walk himself due to his physical disability) and the Honda

subsequently

flees the scene. Witnesses describe the fleeing Honda and also advised

that the

operator was who we all now know as career criminal Taye.

Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET

FF/NREMT-B/FSI/EMSI

Freelance Consultant/Trainer/Author/Journalist/Fire Protection Consultant

LNMolino@...

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