Bart Township Fire Company officials listen to a question from the media Tuesday. From left are Assistant Fire Chief Chad Graybill, Chief Curt Woerth and Mike Hoover, quick response services director. Posted on 10/17/2006 12:20:31 PM PDT by oldtimer2
Bart Township Fire Company officials listen to a question from the media Tuesday. From left are Assistant Fire Chief Chad Graybill, Chief Curt Woerth and Mike Hoover, quick response services director.
1st responders: Bart Twp. deaths 'our personal hurt'
Paramedics, firefighters explain how they coped with schoolhouse shooting scene — and how they’re coping now.
By Cindy Stauffer Lancaster New Era
Published: Oct 17, 2006 2:14 PM EST
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - The paramedics and firefighters who responded to the Amish school shootings all have had their “moments” in the past two weeks.
The emergency workers have undergone counseling and debriefings. They have leaned on each other.
But they will never forget the scene that greeted them in Bart Township.
Ian Solodky was one of the first to arrive at West Nickel Mines School. As he surveyed the scene, the paramedic said he saw one young victim. And then another. And another.
As the reality of what occurred inside the tiny one-room schoolhouse began to hit home, Solodky said he shifted into “autopilot.”
“Nothing went through my mind,” the paramedic from Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association said during a news conference Monday night at Bart Township Fire Hall. “I knew what I needed to do, and I did it.”
That morning, Solodky worked side by side with Jodi Lefevre, an emergency medical technician with Bart Township Fire Company.
“I did absolutely anything and everything I knew how to do,” said Lefevre, who described the scene as “organized chaos.”
Solodky, Lefevre and several other first responders said they will never be able to erase the images of the 10 young Amish girls, who were gunned down by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV. Roberts then turned the gun on himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at local.lancasteronline.com ...
In addition, Bart Fire Company members include about 1/2 Amish members.
In this case, they were working on members children. God bless them
Yes, God bless 'em
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