A CALDWELL, IDAHO, WOMAN DIED LAST THURSDAY NIGHT when an ambulance bay door that was closing pinned her to the pavement and caused an “accidental compression asphyxia” around 11:25 pm.
After finding the 35-yr.-old woman’s car parked across the street, the police are speculating that she was waiting over there for an ambulance to leave so that she could gain entry to the building. When one of the Canyon County Paramedic units responded on a call, she apparently dashed across the street tried to slip beneath the descending overhead door. Ambulance officials cannot explain why the door-closure safety system failed to operate.
None of the other medics in the building knew that she was there, nor was anyone expecting her. Scott Tucker, deputy director of the ambulance district, said that the woman, Melissa Farris worked there as a paramedic from October 2001 to December 2008.
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