He's with the Government

Credit: Jmak/Foter

Albuquerque firefighter Matthew Sanchez has resigned after snapping at a 911 caller trying to keep a teenage shooting victim alive. Sanchez was working as an emergency dispatcher at the time. The caller got angry when he repeatedly asked if the boy was breathing. "He is barely breathing, how many times do I have to (expletive) tell you?" she said. "OK, you know what ma'am? You can deal with it yourself. I am not going to deal with this, OK?" Sanchez responded. Then he apparently hung up the phone. The victim later died.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

During the call, the female says, "I am keeping him alive!"

In the dispatcher's defense, she did boast that she was keeping him alive.

[Radioactive]

...the victim later died...EPIC FAIL

[Free Society]

So now the commentariat can access the Brickbats outside of the H&R feed?

[Free Society]

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[Hank Phillips]

That's terrible. Surely the firefighters' union representative can find a way to blame the victim who was taxed to pay for this incompetence in the first place, no? Was this teenager shot by a brother union officer by any chance?