THAT’S WHAT THE FIRE CHIEF HAS CHARGED, ANYWAY. On Thursday afternoon, a Newton Falls, Ohio, Fire Department ambulance was dispatched on an emergency call to the farthest reaches of their district. Just one block from the station, however, they came across a car that was stopped in the middle of an intersection and blocking them from continuing.
At about that time, the firefighters recognized that the car was being driven by the town’s mayor, Pat Layshock. According to the ambulance’s driver, they motioned several times for hizzoner to move the car out of the way, but he refused to move. Instead, after about 30 seconds or a little more, the mayor called out an obscenity to them before speeding off in his car.
Mayor Layshock (WYTV)
By the mayor’s account, he said that he stopped in the intersection because that’s what “you’re suppose to do for an emergency vehicle.” He said that he couldn’t go anywhere because the ambulance didn’t have it’s turn signal on and he didn’t know which way the ambulance wanted to go.
When the ambulance returned from their call, they reported the incident to their chief, Fire Chief Richard Bauman. The chief then met with the police chief for advice on how to proceed, and after conferring with the town’s attorney Chief Bauman filed charges against the mayor with the Trumbull County Sheriff.
In this video report from WYTV Ch. 33 Youngstown, the sheriff sounds a little miffed over being dragged into the affair:
The Newton Falls prosecutor’s office will make the decision on whether to press charges against the mayor.
The Warren Tribune Chronicle has the details of the STORY HERE.
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