ParaMedic and FireFighters in NC disrupt expressway traffic on Christmas morning:*
Justin Nalley is a WakeMed paramedic in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was just finishing up his overnight shift Christmas morning, when he spotted a dog in the middle of the 504 expressway. The dog was hurt, but still breathing, and he knew he had to do something.
Around this same time, Morrisville firefighters Michael Lindsey and Mike Chorney were ending their shifts and on their way home when they saw Nalley pulled over. They also decided to pull over and help.
They gathered up the injured dog and got her to the Veterinary Specialty Hospital in Raleigh. Emergency vet Curtis Ostrom said that their quick actions may have saved the dog's life.
“What myself and others did wasn’t so much an act of heroism, but something we do every day of our lives and is second nature,” Nalley said.
Ostrom said that the dog had a broken leg, and may have been hit by a car judging by the internal bleeding she was suffering from. As of the writing of this article, the four-year-old dog called Cora is well on her way to recovery.
“She’s a pretty tough dog, and so most of her injuries at this point have stabilized,” Ostrom said. “It’s mostly just her cuts and abrasions healing up.
link to story is below-
http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2015/12/three-off-duty-first-responders-save-dog-on-christmas/
credit: lifewithdogs.tv
* = FireFighters and ParaMedics are not bad cops, but sometimes their conduct gets them included into threads about bad cops...