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Seymour Police Officers Recognized For Car Rescue
by Jodie Mozdzer | Sep 2, 2010 1:30 pm
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Posted to: Seymour, Police
Seymour First Selectman Paul Roy recently thanked three town police officers for their help responding to a bad accident on Great Hill Road.
In a letter presented to Chief Michael Metzler, Roy thanks Sgt. Stephen Prajer, Officer John Cronin, and Officer Phoumareth Phouangphiarith for their help at the scene, where a woman drove down a steep embankment and needed to be extricated from her car.
The officers were among the dozens of emergency responders who helped pull the woman up the steep hill using ropes and a basket.
The rescue was “very difficult work on a hot summer day,” Roy wrote in the letter.
“The officers were among the first to arrive on scene and without regard to their own safety, immediately went down a steep embankment to assist the victim,” Roy wrote.
Roy also sent letters to the fire department and the Seymour Ambulance Association thanking those crews as well.
The woman’s injuries were life-threatening at first, but Metzler said she is recovering.
The conversation prompted commissioner James Simpson to ask why Seymour doesn’t have an annual recognition ceremony, like the Ansonia Police Department does.
“I mean, I’ll pay for the food,” Simpson joked. “I just think it’s something worthy of looking at.”
Metzler said past boards have started looking at the idea, but it fell to the side as the makeup of the boards changed.
Comments
posted by: spanky on September 3, 2010 10:46am
Nice article…......what about the fireman who responded?? It is unfortunate that volunteers hardly even get the recognition they deserve.
posted by: Shocking on September 3, 2010 1:12pm
Eugene Driscoll you should not be allowed on FIRE scenes. Did you not see the THIRTY FIRE FIGHTERS there. The picture says it all THREE cops stand around wondering when to claim a comp case. Making $50.00 an hour to stand there as the fire department is in the woods for FREE!!! But the town will give a award to hang on there donuts. What no one in town to go beat up or email accounts to hack into? Didn’t see a big story on that.
posted by: Eugene Driscoll on September 3, 2010 1:21pm
Shocking:
I covered the original incident, took a bunch of photos.
The original story is here:
http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/car_drives_off_great_hill_road_in_seymour/
The original story is also linked to from this story.
THIS STORY is from a Seymour Police Commission meeting. What you read above is what happened at that moment of time at the meeting.
Jodie is calling Paul Roy to see if he wrote a letter commending the actions of the FD that day.
If you have a problem, call me at 203 446 2335.
If you have a problem with the Seymour Police Commission, call them.
posted by: Eugene Driscoll on September 3, 2010 1:25pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42059096@N08/sets/72157624513855903/show/
posted by: Jodie Mozdzer on September 3, 2010 1:29pm
I just got off the phone with First Selectman Paul Roy. He said he also sent letters of thanks to the fire department and the Seymour Ambulance Association.
This article was not intended to slight those two groups. I was simply covering the dialogue at a Police Commission meeting.
I’ve added the information about the other letters to the article.
As you can see in our past coverage of emergency events, including this one, we give ample recognition to the emergency responders at the scenes of incidents.
posted by: spanky on September 3, 2010 2:09pm
Don’t understand why the additional comments were not written in the original story????????
posted by: Eugene Driscoll on September 3, 2010 2:19pm
It wasn’t in the original article because the First Selectmen’s mention of the fire department’s actions weren’t mentioned at the meeting of the Seymour Police Commission.
Again, no one sent out to slight the Seymour Fire Department.
I’m available to cover fire stories 24 hours a day. eugenedriscoll@gmail.com
posted by: Eugene Driscoll on September 3, 2010 2:55pm
FYI—we’re human and screw up just like anyone else. We covered what happened at a meeting and kept it at that. We should have checked with Roy before publishing. That being said, to suggest that I should not be allowed at fire scene? That’s what they call ‘crazy talk.’