A DC firefighter who was allegedly assaulted while responding to a call has been accused of being intoxicated while on the job, according to officials.
DC Fire and EMS officials said the firefighter was responding to a call Sunday afternoon for a 3-year-old girl who suffered an injury after falling from her bed in the 200 block of 37th Street, SE.
The parents of the girl, who believed she may have hurt her neck and back, refused to let the firefighter help their daughter because they believed he was drunk.
"When the ambulance arrived, a drunk man came into my house. He came in there yelling," Lamont Jennings, the father of 3-year-old Aubrey recalled. "On the phone, they told me, 'Don't pick up your daughter because you may make her paralyzed.' I tell them (the firefighters) you need to get a stretcher so you can lay her on and scoot her over so she doesn't have to move."