Catskills EMTs Seen Manhandling Patient on Ring Video

These two EMTs have resigned, rather than being fired.

How incredibly shameful.

We have equipment that allows us to carry people down stairs.  The newest generation of the stair chair is truly a marvel, allowing responders to move quite a heavy person downstairs without having to lift them at all.  Even an older model does the trick quite well, and every truck I ever rode on had a stair chair.

Even if these two were too lazy to pull out their stair chair and help the man down, for sure this town has a fire department.  They can be called upon to do "lift assistance," bring more personnel to physically carry someone who is too big to move themselves or to be safely moved by the two EMTs.

But also, we learned a lot of different ways to move people in EMT school, including placing them on sheets to get them onto our nifty gurneys, which roll.  So there's not a single excuse in the world for anything shown in this video.

Even assuming this guy is a frequent flyer who calls them all the time with total bullshit.  You know what?  That's why you get the big bucks, fuckers.  You don't make him walk all the way out to your truck and climb up onto your stretcher unassisted.  At a bare minimum, you call fire and have them help him if you're too lazy to do anything at all.

The part where they're mocking him and tugging at him like he's a bag of potatoes, just sickening all the way around.

Shameful.  They're "investigating," for whatever that's worth.  Investigating what, whether to pull their patches?  Press charges?  Their chain of command?  Not the last one for sure.