THE BIZARRE CASE OF THE FLORIDA FIREFIGHTER who took a crash victim’s severed foot home for cadaver dog training is expanding.
The incident happened on September 19 when a man crashed his car into a tree in St. Lucie County with such force that it took nearly an hour for the FD to extricate him. The crash had also severed his lower leg and it was independently enveloped in the auto’s wreckage. When the victim was airlifted to the hospital where he is recovering, the foot was not freed until sometime later.
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Instead of transporting the appendage to the hospital, one of the firefighters took it back to the station where she called on a family member to come pick it up and take it home. Read the earlier Firegeezer reports HERE and HERE.
The Palm Beach Post is now reporting that the investigation that led to the firefighter’s resignation earlier this week has expanded to include as many as nine more department members, including supervisors, who knew about the traveling foot but never reported the situation to any superior officers.
Read the entire Post article HERE.
LISTEN TO AN INTERVIEW with Cindy Economou, the FF/paramedic who took the foot back to the station. She recounts the entire incident on this recorded interview HERE.
