"This is the best decision for this department at this time to move forward. If we don t do it, this department will go away. I guarantee it," Commissioner Louis Snelling
heather: a great story, the july 4th holiday, you are out there doing the job, a paramedic firefighter for 12 years. that is correct. i have been with pinellas suncoast fire rescue for 7 years. heather: take me through what happened on this day. i was assigned to engine 27 around 4:30 i received a call from a reporter drowning at a location at splash harbor waterpark a few blocks from the station. we had a little sense of urgency. we were escorted back to our patient who was a 3-year-old little girl on the side of the pool. heather: she almost drowned in that pool. did you have to perform cpr? what did you do? we had two great bystanders,