Drinking & responding – two stories: – A firefighter strikes a cop & a chief tries to handle an EMS run.

From Guilderland, New York (Albany County) comes the story of a volunteer firefighter responding in his personal vehicle to a house fire on Curry Road early this morning.  Jordan Carleo-Evangelist reports at TimesUnion.com that Captain Thomas Fortunes of the Stanford Heights Fire Department struck and sped past Officer Don Jones who was directing traffic at the scene of the fire. Here’s more:

Fortune’s 1999 Saturn sedan clipped Jones’ right arm and kept going, prompting Officers Mike Minette and Joe Mazzone to give chase and ultimately stop him, police said.

Police said Fortune was discovered to have a blood-alcohol content of .15 percent, just shy of twice the .08 percent legal limit, and was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, reckless endangerment and failure to comply with a lawful order.

Jones was treated by Guilderland EMS. The extent of his injury was not immediately clear.

Above is the earlier video from KCCI-TV. Click here to watch the latest story.

Read police report from Carlisle, Iowa

The second story is a follow-up to the one above we brought you earlier this week from Carlisle, Iowa. A man told a local TV station that the fire chief who responded to his wife’s diabetic emergency was acting in a very strange manner. Now KCCI-TV has obatined the police report in this case and it indiates Chief Scott Burger was intoxicated.  Here is an excerpt from the KCCI- TV story:

According to the report, a Carlisle police officer who confronted Burger after the incident said Burger admitted to drinking two beers, which he also acknowledged was against policy.

The report said, “Mr. Burger provided a sample of breath, which indicated his breath-alcohol content at 0.152.” The legal limit in Iowa is 0.08, nearly half of the test result.

In the report, emergency crews from Frasier Medical Services who also responded to the 911 case said Burger was acting unprofessionally.

“They described Mr. Burger’s behavior as ‘just not right’ and ‘goofy,'” the report said. “They advised that Mr. Burger’s behavior was unprofessional because he was very close to the individual’s face with his own.”

Another officer’s report said, “Two of the men had direct contact with Chief Burger and they stated he was actually hindering their ability to help the situation.”