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Lieutenant Patrick Lopez and Firefighter Marshall Henry were disciplined for having a doctor pronounce a woman dead despite not having assessed her themselves.
Lieutenant Patrick Lopez said the officer who went inside told firefighters they didn't need to go inside because the woman was "obviously dead." Lopez told his crew to stay outside. Lopez then told another firefighter, Marshall Henry, to all Denver Health and ask for a field pronouncement of death from an emergency room doctor, according to the order, even though neither of them had assessed the woman themselves.
Two Colorado firefighters were recently suspended for allegedly having a woman pronounced dead who was actually alive. On June 24, Denver Lieutenant Patrick Lopez and firefighter Marshall Henry…
(Denver, CO) Two Denver firefighters will serve suspensions after having a doctor pronounce a woman dead, even though she was still alive. The Denver Department of Public Safety says the two firefighters were called to perform a welfare check on a woman who had just had stomach surgery in June. A police officer described the woman's condition to the firefighters, but they