On Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 9:02 p.m., five companies of Los Angeles firefighters, nine LAFD rescue ambulances, three EMS battalion captains and one battalion chief officer command team under the direction of Battalion Chief Mark Stormes responded to a multi-patient shooting at 1526 East 1st street in Boyle Heights. Firefighter/paramedics arrived quickly alongside Los Angeles police officers to discover five male shooting victims within a small market. A brisk and efficient triage determined that none of the patients had life-threatening injuries.
The patients, age 17-51 were tagged in the “delayed” care permissive category yet received prompt treatment at the scene by Fire Department paramedics prior to their transport to area hospitals.
Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollenbeck Community Police Station will be handling the investigation.