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A 20-year-old upstate New York
volunteer emergency medical technician was suspended after he broke the
rules to drive a four-year-old child to hospital.
The
board the made the decision to suspend volunteer EMT and squad leader
Stephen Sawyer after he drove the Ellenville ambulance to pick up a
four-year-old boy who was suffering from a seizure and take him to
hospital.
Resigned: Stephen Sawyer, 20, resigned after the
Ellenville First Aid and Rescue Squad suspended him for driving the
squad's ambulance
The Ellenville First Aid and Rescue Squad's rules dictate that ambulance drivers must be at least 21 years of age. In a 4-3 decision, the board decided to
suspend Sawyer, who is also a volunteer firefighter and part-time police
officer, for 60 days. Upset by the decision, Sawyer immediately tendered his resignation. The
board's decision has caused an outcry in the community, where people
feel the young EMT should not be penalized for helping a child. According
to the Times Herald-Record, Sawyer was at the Ellenville First Aid and
Rescue Squad's headquarters when the call came in about a four-year-old
having seizures. A paramedic soon arrived at the child's home in an SUV and called for an ambulance. Sawyer, alone at headquarters, called the Kerhonkson Accord First Aid Squad, but they were busy on another call. He then called three more ambulance
services over the next 15 minutes but came up empty-handed, so he
climbed into the ambulance himself, drove the five miles to the child's
house and took the child, his mother and the paramedic to Ellenville
Regional Hospital.
'I
wouldn't have been able to sleep at night or go to school knowing
there's a four-year-old suffering,' Sawyer told the Times Herald-Record. The following Monday, he was called before the board of directors and asked to explain himself. Sawyer
says he believes he made the best decision and that although he is only
20, he has experience driving ambulances for the Mobile Life Support
Services.
The board decided to
suspend him for 60 days and revoke his title of advisor from the Youth
Squad, which he had restarted when he joined the volunteers as a
15-year-old. Sawyer quit his position and soon
after a post about the whole episode was posted on the Ulster County
Fire/Rescue Facebook page. It soon went viral, with more than 400 comments, most in support of Sawyer, and 1,300 'likes.' Captain and board member for Ellenville First Aid services tells a slightly different story from Sawyer's. Gaveris
said Sawyer's suspension came about not as the result of an isolated
incident, but from a 'culmination of different incidents,' as well as
other aspects of the December 11 call.
Community-minded: Stephen Sawyer is a part-time police officer, volunteer firefighter and until recently volunteer EMT
The Daily Freeman
reports that Sawyer was at the squad's station at around 10:45am on
December 11 with another EMT and an ambulance driver when the call came
in about the four-year-old having seizures. Two minutes later, another call came in about an 80-year-old man who had fallen and was bleeding from his arm. Sawyer,
despite not being authorized to decide which call should take priority,
told the other EMT and the driver to go to the aid of the elderly man,
according to Gavaris. 'They
should have never listened to him. Protocol is to go to the first call
unless the other one is of a more critical nature,' the captain told the
Daily Freeman. 'They listened to [Sawyer] and trusted his judgment
because he worked for a paid service.' Gavaris
said Sawyer believed another driver was on his way, but was mistaken.
After being unable to find another driver, he went himself.
Underage: Sawyer drove one of these ambulances but isn't permitted to do so until he's 21
'He delayed transport on a patient,' he said. Gavaris said that despite his error of judgement, that incident alone wouldn't have gotten Sawyer suspended. However,
Sawyer had a record of 'violating our policies and not following our
rules. ... Had this been the first incident, he would have been told not
to do it again.' Gavaris
said squad rules about under-21s driving ambulances are standard and
that Sawyer does not have the proper training to operate one. The Ellenville First Aid and Rescue Squad addressed the furor over Sawyer's suspension on its Facebook page. 'Your posts are welcome on this site, but any derogatory posts will be deleted,' reads a post on the page. 'The
20 year [old] should be praised! He took a risk to help a 4 year old
child. This would not have been an issue had the squad had better
prepared for a call... This only shows lack of preparation for this
individual unit. Simply sad. Very glad this isn't the department I would
depend on if my child or family was in a medical emergency,' reads a
response. Many other
comments follow along these lines, including many from Stephen Sawyer's
mother, Leslie A. Gonzalez, who alleges Gavaris has disliked her son
since he began volunteering with the squad.
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Now, the magnetic fields will once again started moving in opposite directions to begin the completion of the 22 year long process which will culminate in the poles switching once again.
"A reversal of the sun's magnetic field is, literally, a big event," said Nasa’s Dr. Tony Phillips.
"The domain of the sun's magnetic influence (also known as the 'heliosphere') extends billions of kilometers beyond Pluto. Changes to the field's polarity ripple all the way out to the Voyager probes, on the doorstep of interstellar space."
To mark the event, Nasa has released a visualisation of the entire process.
At the beginning, in 1997 the video shows the sun in Solar Cycle 23 with its positive polarity on the top (the green lines), and the negative polarity on the bottom (the purple lines).
Each set of lines gradually move toward the opposite pole, showing a complete flip around 2002, completing the sun's previous cycle.
Both set of lines representing the opposing magnetic fields then begin to work their way back, to culminate in the latest flip.
"At the height of each magnetic flip, the sun goes through periods of more solar activity, during which there are more sunspots, and more eruptive events such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections," said Nasa’s Karen C. Fox.
"Cosmic rays are also affected," added Dr. Phillips. "These are high-energy particles accelerated to nearly light speed by supernova explosions and other violent events in the galaxy."
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