No good deed goes unpunished for 1st responders...Captain James Kelley and Sgt. Virgil Bloom from the Falmouth Volunteer Fire Department Suspended After Saving 18-Month-Old Girl’s Life

Two volunteer firefighters in Stafford County, Virginia, were suspended following their attempts to save an 18-month-old girl who was having a seizure last Saturday because they used their fire engine to transport her to a hospital.

Captain James Kelley and Sgt. Virgil Bloom from the Falmouth Volunteer Fire Department in Fredericksburg were suspended for their actions last Saturday after they were the first responders to answer a call coming from a little girl’s father near a McDonald’s restaurant, according to WTTG-TV. The father had reported that his 18-month-old daughter was having a seizure and required a hospital, and according to Kelley it would have taken at least 10 to 15 minutes before the nearest medic could arrive at the restaurant and provide assistance.

That’s when the two firefighters decided to take the matter into their own hands.

Kelley and Bloom took the little girl with them into the fire engine and began the trek to Mary Washington Hospital, and Kelley said that the toddler immediately was put on oxygen in the fire engine and arrived inside the hospital’s trauma room within 13 minutes of the time the call had first come in, WTTG reported. Although an ambulance requested to meet the firefighters near the hospital to finish the journey, Kelley ultimately denied the request.

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