Malheureusement oui. Parce qu'au Québec, les titres d'ambulancier, TA, TMU, EMT, et paramédic ne sont pas exclusif aux praticien d'un ordre professionnel.
Donc n'importe qui peut s'affubler ce titre sans problème, même s'il ne pratique pas et n'est pas certifié depuis plusieurs années. C'est comme si n'importe qui avec une technique policière se disait policier même s'il n'est pas assermenté comme policier. Stéphan Gascon Stephan Gascon via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Mayer <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:53:28 To: <[email protected]> Subject: SMU-L: Fake Responder Interferes at Oklahoma Crash Scene (article en anglais sorry ) Pour ce changer les idées un peu... Quelqu'un a déjà vécu ça au Québec?? http://www.emsresponder.com/web/online/Top-EMS-News/Fake-Responder-Interferes-at-Oklahoma-Crash-Scene/1$9920 Jul. 15--At first glance, Joel Lack was an off-duty Tulsa firefighter who only wanted to help. A grisly, alcohol-related crash on Oklahoma 51 near 165th West Avenue had killed two bicyclists and injured a third. Mangled bicycle parts littered the road as Lack, 22, walked up and started tending to the victims. But as investigators looked into Lack's story, it became clear that he was posing as an emergency responder and had entered the area illegally, Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said. "In 20 years of being a prosecutor, I've never encountered something like this," he said. "It's a pretty amazing story." Prosecutors charged Lack on Monday with impersonating a firefighter, interfering with an emergency medical technician and two counts of grand larceny after the July 9 crash that killed Christa Voss, 33, of Owasso and Matthew Edmonds, 34, of Tulsa. Another cyclist was seriously injured. Tausha Borland, 38, of Sand Springs is accused of plowing into the group while driving with an open container of alcohol in her sport utility vehicle. Lack is accused of walking into the scene -- at one point holding an IV bag and jumping into an ambulance -- and making off with medical equipment and controlled drugs. Kunzweiler said Lack flashed a badge, had medical equipment with him and claimed to have experience as a paramedic. Those claims started unraveling when medics noticed that a bag of medicine was missing. Other workers questioned Lack about the gear, and he stuck to the story about being an off-duty firefighter, Kunzweiler said. During the confusion, Lack allegedly left the area before anyone could contact the Tulsa Fire Department. "Any scene involving a violent accident is initially a chaotic scene until trained law enforcement can start taking control of it," Kunz- weiler said. "Your hope is that people who are trying to provide assistance are legitimate." Workers eventually recovered the bag, which had been stowed in a medical helicopter and was filled with controlled drugs, said Matt Kasten, a spokesman for Air Methods Corp., the parent company of Tulsa Life Flight. A device called a pulse oximeter, which measures the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood, also was missing from the Sand Springs Fire Department, Fire Marshal Stan Smith said. "That's an expensive piece of equipment, and it's not just something that you replace overnight," he said. The charade wasn't Lack's first run-in with police, court records indicate. He faces pending charges of embezzlement and concealing stolen goods in Rogers County. In Tulsa County, he received a three-year deferred sentence in February after pleading guilty to grand larceny and malicious injury to property, records show. Lack was not on the Tulsa Jail's inmate log Tuesday night. Matt Barnard 581-8408 [email protected]
