Fw: EMSNEWS Digest - 14 Dec 2001 to 15 Dec 2001 (#2001-256)

[Guest guest]

NJ - First-aid worker dismissed over floodlight incident

>

> http://www.bergen.com/bse/emttd200112137.htm

>

> First-aid worker dismissed over floodlight incident

> Thursday, December 13, 2001

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> By TOM DAVIS

> Staff Writer

>

> The Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc. has dismissed a member who

was

> accused of using first-aid equipment to antagonize residents of a Euclid

> Avenue boarding house.

>

> Hoehl, first lieutenant of the corps, said his 30-member

organization

> cut ties with the man after he completed a six-month probationary period

> last week.

>

> Although Hoehl declined to give the man's name, residents of 65 Euclid

Ave.

> identified him as Wuertz, a fellow tenant. Contacted at her Dumont

> home Tuesday, a woman who identified herself as Wuertz's mother confirmed

> that her son lives at the boarding house.

>

> Wuertz did not respond to calls seeking comments on the accusations.

>

> On Nov. 7, residents say, the man and two other members of the ambulance

> corps harassed a resident of the boarding house, deliberately pointed what

> appeared to be ambulance floodlights into the windows of several

apartments,

> and yelled obscenities.

>

> City officials said no further action will be taken regarding the incident

> because no formal police reports have been filed.

>

> City Manager Lacava said he received verbal complaints from the

> tenants, but nothing more. Hoehl said he conducted an investigation but

> found no evidence that more than one squad member was involved.

>

> Hoehl said the squad member in question was worried that someone was

> breaking into his apartment. The man denied using the ambulance equipment

to

> antagonize anyone, Hoehl said.

>

> Neither the ambulance squad member nor the man who believes he was the

> target agreed to comment about the alleged incident.

>

> Marino, a resident of the complex, said the ambulance workers left

but

> returned two or three times, shining the ambulance's lights into windows

on

> different sides of the boarding house and continuing to yell obscenities.

>

> Hoehl disputed Marino's version of the incident, saying he doesn't believe

> that ambulance personnel used the vehicle's floodlights because the lights

> " aim down, not up. "

>

> Hoehl said that incident as well as several others, which he declined to

> discuss in detail, contributed to the corps' decision not to keep the man

on

> the squad once probation was finished.

>

> ------------------------------

>

> End of EMSNEWS Digest - 14 Dec 2001 to 15 Dec 2001 (#2001-256)

> **************************************************************

>

[Guest guest]

NJ - First-aid worker dismissed over floodlight incident

>

> http://www.bergen.com/bse/emttd200112137.htm

>

> First-aid worker dismissed over floodlight incident

> Thursday, December 13, 2001

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> By TOM DAVIS

> Staff Writer

>

> The Hackensack Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc. has dismissed a member who

was

> accused of using first-aid equipment to antagonize residents of a Euclid

> Avenue boarding house.

>

> Hoehl, first lieutenant of the corps, said his 30-member

organization

> cut ties with the man after he completed a six-month probationary period

> last week.

>

> Although Hoehl declined to give the man's name, residents of 65 Euclid

Ave.

> identified him as Wuertz, a fellow tenant. Contacted at her Dumont

> home Tuesday, a woman who identified herself as Wuertz's mother confirmed

> that her son lives at the boarding house.

>

> Wuertz did not respond to calls seeking comments on the accusations.

>

> On Nov. 7, residents say, the man and two other members of the ambulance

> corps harassed a resident of the boarding house, deliberately pointed what

> appeared to be ambulance floodlights into the windows of several

apartments,

> and yelled obscenities.

>

> City officials said no further action will be taken regarding the incident

> because no formal police reports have been filed.

>

> City Manager Lacava said he received verbal complaints from the

> tenants, but nothing more. Hoehl said he conducted an investigation but

> found no evidence that more than one squad member was involved.

>

> Hoehl said the squad member in question was worried that someone was

> breaking into his apartment. The man denied using the ambulance equipment

to

> antagonize anyone, Hoehl said.

>

> Neither the ambulance squad member nor the man who believes he was the

> target agreed to comment about the alleged incident.

>

> Marino, a resident of the complex, said the ambulance workers left

but

> returned two or three times, shining the ambulance's lights into windows

on

> different sides of the boarding house and continuing to yell obscenities.

>

> Hoehl disputed Marino's version of the incident, saying he doesn't believe

> that ambulance personnel used the vehicle's floodlights because the lights

> " aim down, not up. "

>

> Hoehl said that incident as well as several others, which he declined to

> discuss in detail, contributed to the corps' decision not to keep the man

on

> the squad once probation was finished.

>

> ------------------------------

>

> End of EMSNEWS Digest - 14 Dec 2001 to 15 Dec 2001 (#2001-256)

> **************************************************************

>