For all those Fire and EMS companies/houses/groups with unmarked vehicles...

[rwo978]

http://firehouse.com/12160258

Haven't been around much lately, but saw this on FB tonight and searched here without another story/thread on it.

The jyst, a Fire Chief was stabbed and killed while sitting in his UNMARKED chiefs vehicle.

This has been preached and discussed ad-nauseum. There is absolutely ZERO reason for a Fire or EMS chief to have an unmarked company vehicle. You're not sneaking up on a fire or medical scene, mark that crap up!!!!!

There's not a doubt in my mind that this person thought they were committing an ambush attack on a police officer in an unmarked police vehicle. I mean really, who could tell the difference? Ambush style attacks are happening more and more frequently to not only officers, but Fire and EMS personnel as well. Do everything you can to mitigate this.

 

[rwo978]

OK, my bad... he wasn't killed. One article I read stated he was. However, it doesn't change the facts.

 

[tuckerm]

So a Fire Chief gets stabbed and you jump to the conclusion that it was because he was in an unmarked FD vehicle that MAY look like a squad car? You even thought the Chief was killed and yet you decided to post this still. A bit tasteless and unwarranted in my opinion.

Oh, and from your article:

"At this time, we don't know what the motive was," Doug Schepman told the newspaper.

 

[buddek09]

It doesn't even look like a squad car. It's an Explorer not an Interceptor Utilty and doesn't scream unmarked police car. Could be that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The mother's son states she isn't right in the head and is known to hallucinate. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...-investigating-assault-at-denver-fire-station