Friday, May 21, 2010
** Ontario medics dedicate memorial forest in honour of provider who died of cancer
** Washington paramedic charged with drug tampering
CANADA NEWS
** Essex-Windsor paramedics in Amherstburg, Ontario have honored the memory of one of their colleagues with a memorial forest. The Amherstburg Echo (Ron Giofu/May 20) said the undertaking, which involves planting 200 trees in back of the local ambulance station, pays tribute to practitioner Joe Beneteau. According to the newspaper, Beneteau died in May 2007 from cancer. A long time EMS volunteer, he served as the volunteer service’s president for some six years. Essex-Windsor absorbed the volunteer service in 2009. Beneteau’s widow Mary Lou said she appreciated the work it took putting the park together.
UNITED STATES NEWS
** Police in Camus, Washington continue to hold a paramedic accused of stealing Fentanyl from his service’s drug stores. According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer (Levi Pulkkinen/May 19) Bradley C. Allen was taken into custody after a May 7 routine inspection discerned vial safety seals had been broken. Allen admitted siphoning Fentanyl from the containers and replacing them with water. In charge of ordering service supplies for some 10 years, he told police he had an addiction to painkillers. Tagged with federal drug tampering charges, he remains at a secured treatment facility pending the outcome of the case.
