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Fla. paramedic: ‘I didn’t deserve to be fired’


By Demorris A. Lee
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Fired Clearwater paramedic Mike Jones acknowledges he might have made a mistake, but he says that shouldn’t cost him his job.

Jones admits he and a colleague may have used poor judgment when they didn’t respond to a 9-1-1 call from a woman who had falsely claimed rape many times.

But Jones, now a paramedic with the Zephyrhills Fire Department, said Tuesday during a hearing to get his job back that he had a stellar record during his six years with Clearwater’s Fire Department, and that record should outweigh his lapse in judgment.

Full story: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/25/Northpinellas/Paramedic___I_didn_t_.shtml