By FireRescue1 Staff
WASHINGTON — A firefighter who was allegedly assaulted on a call was accused of being drunk on the scene.
FOX 5 DC reported that firefighters responded to a call about a 3-year-old girl who fell from her bed. The parents thought she might have hurt her back and neck, but refused to let the firefighter treat her because they believed he was drunk.
“When the ambulance arrived, a drunk man came into my house. He came in there yelling,” Lamont Jennings, the father of the 3-year-old, said. “On the phone, they told me, ‘Don’t pick up your daughter because you may make her paralyzed.’ I tell them (the firefighters) you need to get a stretcher so you can lay her on and scoot her over so she doesn’t have to move.”
"(He yelled) ‘pick her up, pick her up,’ yelling at me, so I picked her up, take her outside and this is when he starts falling up the steps so everyone is like ‘he’s drunk.’ That’s when it really kicked into my mind that he was drunk. I looked at his partner and his partner told me ‘he was a little bit sick,’” Jennings continued.
Witnesses said they could smell alcohol on the firefighter.
Officials said multiple men attacked the firefighter and broke his jaw.
The firefighter is currently hospitalized for his injuries. Investigators said they are reviewing the incident.