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City memos show AZ firefighter refused response to Giffords shooting

Crosscheck said:
It pretty much speaks for the current political division in our country.


NATION: City memos show AZ firefighter refused response to Giffords shooting
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To the Lame-Ass firefighter.

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Barbbtx said:
If you read the article it shows something different. I think the guy was not emotionally prepared to go on the call, therefore, he was right to retire. I hope there is no action against him. His record was good in the past.
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i don't think the man explained himself at all........glad he's retired. he's dangerous.
 
haymarket said:
Very very strange story. I hope we get more details about this. If the man was distraught and could not competently serve, that is one thing. Although one would think a 28 year professional would be able to handle such adversity. If he simply had political issues and did not want to respond, that is inexcusable.
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a 28 year professional could also be suffering from PTSD and could possibly have hit a breaking point.



Ekstrum, 56, declined again Friday to discuss the incident. Instead, he referred to a statement he gave fire department officials earlier this week explaining his actions.

Ekstrum said in the statement he was aware of the shooting from TV reports and became "distraught over the magnitude of how this would affect our country."

"Countless thoughts were streaming through my brain. ... I became distracted to the point of not being able to perform my routine station duties to such an extent that I seriously doubted my ability to focus on an emergency call," his statement said. "I decided for the best interest of my crew, and more importantly the citizens, to go home on sick leave and return to emergency work the next shift when I would be more focused."

Ekstrum added he "failed to communicate my situation to my supervisor correctly at the time of the incident." He said he realized the next morning that he shouldn't have refused the call. He then decided to retire.


"Everybody has their own threshold for different things," Gulotta said. "He had a physical response that kept him from performing his duties. This is an isolated individual. This is not what the Tucson Fire Department is about."

Ariz firefighter too distraught to respond to call  | ajc.com
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this sounds less and less political to me.
 
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