Only a week after the City of Brownsville city Manager and city attorney were hauled before a Cameron County grand jury looking into ambulance-service issues in the city, the city administration has barred InterCity Ambulance from operating within the city limits.
Numerous sources have said that after the appearance of manager Charlie Cabler and attorney Mark Sossi before the grand jury last week, Brownsville Police Dept. officers have cited InterCity Ambulance drivers for operating without a license in Brownsville.Reports also indicate that Brownsville Fire Dept. dispatchers have been instructed to stop callin on the company's ambulances for patient transfers.
The latest report was just today, when a firefighter reported seeing a police officer citing the driver of one of the company's ambulances on a major thoroughfare.
"Even the medical workers at the local hospitals are asking what happened to the other guys," said a Brownsville EMS Emergency Medical Technician.
The owner of the Intercity Ambulance Emergency Medical Technicians LLC is Justin Oakerson, a past close associate of Brownsville Fire Department Chief Carlos Elizondo. Elizondo and Oakerson had been active in establishing InterCity as an option to the city's EMS service. That association was widely known when Elizondo was the president of the Firefighters Union before he was named the city's fire chief.
Oakerson, who sued the city in the past claiming retaliation for testimony he gave in a dispute between firefighters and the city in 2014, has said that his testimony cause the city to single him out from "10 other" companies operating in the same fashion.
The city's charter stipulates that outside ambulance companies can only bring in patients from outside the city, but cannot transport them from one point of the city to another, and cannot take them from within the city to outside destinations.
Till, firefighters recall that during the past Charro Days, the fire department's administration declared all the city's EMS ambulance service suspended and had the dispatchers call InterCity to handle the calls. This was a risky move since InterCity only provides basic service, and not intermediate care sometimes required in emergency cases.
After he lost his retaliation claims in federal district court, Oakerson appealed the summary judgments given the city. On July 25, 2016, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower court judgments and stated that "Plaintiffs seek both equitable and declaratory relief. First, Plaintiffs seek a declaration that the City 'equitably licensed' them to operate within its limits. Second, Plaintiffs seek an injunction requiring the City to issue them an official license to operate. Third, Plaintiffs argue that the City implicitly granted IAEMT a license to operate within City limits under the theory of equitable estoppel. The district court granted summary judgment to the city and the appeals court also affirmed."
Oakerson also claimed in an amended petition that the city's failure to cite other ambulatory service companies for operating without a license violated this Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, but later abandoned the claim.
23 comments:
Lol !! Pos no ke muy vergitas !! jajaja
BOOM!!!!
Where Da Blimp, dude?
Check under your bed covers.
The professional looking EMT vehicles and crews are nice. Some of the career first responders should have this professional appearance. However, it really doen't matter as long as fires are extinguished and lives are saved. But still it some of the city crews need a little starch and spit shine. (not all-just some).
Pura pinche rata de dos patas
Is the chief a partner in this business?
Is this the same group that has contracts with tsc and BISD?
Is this true???
Orange is a pretty color
Pos no ke muy vergitas !!
BISD CORRUPTION !
THE BROWNSVILLE MEDIC'S HAVE AGREED TO ANONYMOUSLY CALL B.P.D. ANYTIME THEY SEE A 'IREMT' AMBULANCE 'WORKING' IN BROWNSVILLE ...JAJAJAJA
Y para que menten a BISD? Si tanto critican al BISD sacen a sus
hijos de alli y mandelos a la Idea or a Matamoros Elementary alla por el Amigoland Mall al brinco de charco. What does this have to do with
BISD?
It has alot to do with BISD. Same sneaky bald guy involved with both entities. Same crooked shit.
Y para que menten a BISD?
Carlos Elizondo is la vergita de BISD !!
CARLOS ELIZONDO DOUBLE DIPPING AS THE SILENT PARTNER WITH THE AMBULANCE SERVICE WITH EMT AT BISD.
THAT IS A NO NO AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER HAVING SERVICES FOR BISD CATE EMT PROGRAMS AND THE CITY NOW.
THAT IS WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH BISD.
What about TSC?
Get your facts right before talking out of your ass ! It's easy to comment like little comadres. And those Brownsville Fire fighters that hide out at the hospital and not go back into service so they won't get another call. And try and so as less as possible is what made this hole problem with 911 calls pending. And not enough ambulance available for the city.
It's funny how it makes it ok to wait for an ambulance for someone who needs medical attention to come in and help from Port Isabel or Los Fresnos. Than to have a ambulance that can provide the help within five minutes. I guess its ok , let that person wait 30 minutes or more. And you know why ? Because it's not you having to wait
And just a little fact so you all people know, that the ambulance in question us able to provide a higher level of care than Brownsville can. Those ambulances have higher level of care abilities than Brownsville Fire departments. Just a little food forethought. To those Comadres who don't know the real facts
If you only knew how many 911 calls we had to take. Because a lack of ambulances in the City ! And Critical calls we have taken for the City Brownsville Fire department, because they are not equipped and don't have the training to handle such calls. And to let you know those who agreed to call PD are the ones that don't care about anyone but their own pockets with IT money from the City. To them the less ambulances for the City the better cuz they get more over time. And that is the plane truth. That's why they don't won't anyone company to come into the City because they don't affect their bi-weekly checks and they don't want that. Do you really think they care who lives or dies ! As long as their paycheck is full with Over Time cash is all they really care about!
You mean Carlos Elizondo using a fire truck to BISD meetings and some personal errands?
Hold up. Those other companies do not provide a higher level of care jackass!! Get your facts straight, a young kid straight out of high school vs a seasoned medic, are you kidding me!! Your right let them come in,they can take care of all non emergency calls they have no business running emergency calls!!
Shut the fuck up Carlos and Cindy Elizondo, you think we don't know it is y'all behind these comments. You stole all the benefits from the firefighters and their families by selling their working contract out so you could be fire chief. You want the transfers because you know that is where the money is at. The people are not stupid, hell will freeze over before you have a chance to establish your fucken ambulance service. You have been sucking to much from the public tit like leeches and it is all coming out to bite y'all in the ass pretty soon assholes.
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