CAMDEN, Del. — Police are investigating a note, left at an ambulance facility, which threatens EMS, fire and police.
Delaware State Police are examining the warning, which reads “Give all your employees bullet prof (sic) vest. We’re after all EMS, fire and police. Good luck a** h****", for fingerprints, reported Delaware Online.
The note was found outside of a Heart to Heart ambulance facility.
“We’re taking it very seriously,” said Cory Skidmore, vice president for operations and safety for the Maryland-based private ambulance service.
Delaware State Police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said police were notified around 10:50 p.m. Friday.
“Threats to law enforcement are not uncommon whether it be verbally or through social media,” Fournier wrote in an email. “We take these threats seriously and will continue to investigate any threats made to first responders.”
A picture of the note has circulated widely on Facebook.
“This is really, really sad,” said Dover Mayor Robin Christiansen who first saw the note on Facebook. “Having been a fireman for many years, I think it is unconscionable that you would put a threat out there to the people you would call for any sort of emergency.”
“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but nothing surprises me anymore,” Christiansen said.
“We have obviously had attacks across the country. We have to be really diligent,” said State Fraternal Order of Police president Fred Calhoun. “I find it unnerving that now they’re targeting EMS and fire, because they do a really completely different job than us. They are not armed. They go out there to save lives every day. Sometimes with us, sometimes without us.”