By Kim Ring
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER, Mass. — It took less than 10 seconds but Dudley Fire Department Capt. Paul Konieczny won’t soon forget the moment an angry man grabbed him in a bear hug, forced him through a closed door and slammed him into a pickup truck with such force that an impression of his body was left behind in the metal.
“It was over like that,” Capt. Konieczny said, recalling that the elderly man he’d been tending to was still inside the house, injured and needing help. Police and firefighters, who in Dudley are also EMTs and paramedics, were called out in June to a domestic violence incident in which a man had allegedly hurt his father then fled from their home.
While Capt. Konieczny and his partner tended to the elderly man, the son returned and quickly grabbed the captain. When he landed on the ground outside, Capt. Konieczny raised his elbow and hoped the man who’d overpowered him would stop. He did, but not before police used pepper spray to subdue him.
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