How can an EMT refuse to respond to a scene? Aren’t they supposed to be the first ones on the scene to help those people in need?
Well, a Detroit Fire Department EMT, Ann Marie Thomas, decided not to respond to a call about an infant that was in cardiac arrest.
The sad part is that Thomas was only a few minutes away, but she didn’t go.

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She had told her supervisor that she didn’t want to perform CPR.
Tragically, the baby, an 8-month-old died. Thomas was 0.9 miles away, two minutes.

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Instead, Thomas took 6 minutes to show up and didn’t even park her vehicle on the same street.
Thomas said she didn’t want to have to perform CPR for an extended time.

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The baby’s mother did CPR, the child was revived, but died the next morning.
Despite being told about the baby’s condition and neither Thomas or her partner acted.

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Some people are saying that Thomas should lose her job.
Edsel Jenkins, Executive Fire Commissioner, said that Thomas was taken off duty.

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Thomas filed an appeal. What is she appealing? She wants to go back on duty?
She didn’t do her job, and a child is dead.

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To me, that sounds like a person who has no respect for life or for her job.
She doesn’t deserve to go back on duty.

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If she let one innocent child die – how many other people will die if she doesn’t feel like helping.
It is her job to help. Thomas is not a first responder at all – she is a no responder.
Share away, people.