Posted on 07/06/2015 10:59:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A Milwaukee firefighter was shot overnight Sunday while he and other firefighters tended to a patient who had trouble breathing.
The 46-year-old firefighter, whose name was not released, suffered a graze wound to the right side of his head and has since been treated and released from the hospital, according to a fire department news release issued Monday.
Firefighters were called just after midnight to the area of N. 40th St. and W. Lisbon Ave. to assist a patient with trouble breathing.
Firefighters assessed and treated the patient and were in the process of transferring the patient to Curtis Ambulance when shots were fired from a nearby alley in the direction of the first responders, according to the news release. Several rounds also hit the ambulance.
The firefighter returned to the station and was later taken to a hospital for treatment. Milwaukee police continue to search for suspects.
"Milwaukee firefighters have a difficult and dangerous job, and we are committed to serving our citizens," Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing said in a written statement.
"This incident will serve to heighten our awareness but will not stop us from providing needed emergency medical care to our citizens."
The shooting came at the end of a deadly holiday weekend that saw six people killed in homicides, including a 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot Friday night shortly after Milwaukee's lakefront fireworks.
Milwaukee police have reported a "person of interest" was taken into custody in connection with boy's killing, but as of Monday morning, police officials have not reported any arrests in the other homicides.
The homicides bring the city's total for the year to 80, nearly double the number the city had reached by this time last year, Journal Sentinel records show.
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40th and Lisbon? Such a nice part of town</s>
So is this area like a whitepeopledon’tgo danger zone?
Do we have to ask if we have to ask?
Shop at Lisbon Screen and Door at 51st & Lisbon all the time, but I wouldn’t go there after dark. I’m sure that there are a lot of nice people who live around there, however.
Thanks....Personally, I wouldn’t work at a job where that kind of danger was necessary unless I was allowed appropriate weaponry as protection.
My previous employer sent a fiber optic cable repair crew to NYC for an emergency repair. They were not allowed to be on-site without police protection.
This was 13 years ago!
These are the same people that whine about lack of services.
Maybe firefighters and EMS should be sworn in to carry firearms for self defense. Thugs with guns like nothing better than victims who can’t shoot back.
Oh it’s just those fun loving rascally Yoots out on the town again.
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Milwaukee: ‘rat cesspool.
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Take note of what just happened here, and what might happen in a total breakdown situation.
As I noted myself in a conversation with Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy When I met them a few years ago, more than half of all first responders will not show up for duty when SHTF.
You must be prepared for that...
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Right after Rodney King we were issued bullet proof vests on my engine. We worked in a bad part of Fort Worth called stop Six. We were often staged to,wait for police escort. The only problem was we felt safer when they weren’t on the scene. It seemed like the craziness went up exponentially once the Po Po pulled up. Crazy times back then.
Bullet graze to the head would mean that I go out and buy a lottery ticket right away.
The problem is rendering high level medical aid to someon requires all your concentration There is no capacity for situational awareness (beyond is there anyone in the way when I administer this shock) or to respond to a threat, you are entirely focused on the patient Maybe there should be a mandatory escort or a designated look out...
Isn’t that really close to the police station?
We renovated two old houses and used to go there to buy windows and doors that were taken off old houses.
It was bad enough during the daytime.
I was working at Bell Hel. in the late ‘60s, the whole LBJ civil rights thing had triggered uprisings and lots of racial unrest in the whole DFW area.
One day, a huge (maybe 50-75) caravan of cars full of blacks left Dallas on the old DFW Turnpike (now I-30) and headed to Fort Worth (30 miles away) to create mayhem. ...DPS troopers and Texas Rangers blocked exits until the reached the U-turn just before the Oakland toll booth and made them return to Dallas. ...Not a shot was fired, because the blacks knew the Rangers and DPS would wipe them out.
I was born and raised in Dallas, but my many co-workers from FW told lots of stories about how bad the Stop Six and Rosedale areas were.
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