Police arrested a 20-year-old man they say fired an AK-47 assault rifle at firefighters early Thursday.
Calvin Teodoro Foronda, of St. Pete Beach, faces two counts of aggravated assault on a firefighter and two counts of aggravated assault on a paramedic. None of the fire rescue personnel was injured.
Authorities say the incident began when St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue was dispatched to 6401 31st St. S,, Apt. 904, shortly before 4 a.m. for a medical call.
Read more HERE. The Firefighters Support Foundation has a good, free training program on situational awareness for firefighters and paramedics HERE.
The comment:[Another hazard of the job...assault rifles] makes the gun into a hazard. Yes, loaded guns of any kind in a fire can be a hazard by themselves however, an assault rifle is not a hazard by itself. The man aiming and pulling the trigger was the danger faced and he would still have been a hazard if he had a baseball bat.
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