By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN
Associated Press
Two firefighters loaned to Washington for the day said they were the only medics on the Capitol steps Jan. 6, trying to triage injured officers as they watched the angry mob swell and attack police.
Law enforcement agents were âbeing pulled into the crowd and trampled, assaulted with scaffolding materials, and/or bear maced by protesters,â wrote Arlington County firefighter Taylor Blunt in an after-action memo. Some couldnât walk, and had to be dragged to safety.
Even some of the attackers sought medical help, and Blunt and his colleague Nathan Waterfall treated those who were passing out or had been hit. But some âfeigned illness to remain behind police lines,â Blunt wrote.