By Kyle Clark
KUSA-TV
Copyright 2008 KUSA-TV

DENVER — Todd Teel was not a paramedic, but he played one in real life for more than a year, with injured patients entrusted to his care.

Teel, 40, worked as a credentialed paramedic for American Medical Response, AMR, from July 2006 until December 2007.

The Greenwood Village-based company had not acknowledged the situation publicly until contacted by 9NEWS on Thursday.

The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, NREMT, said Teel forged a paper credential to indicate that he had received the required 1,200 hours, or two years, of training needed to be a paramedic.

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