worked a bad wreck one day bout 3:00 pm on 119 between montevallo and alabaster had a fatality and had the road shut completly down north and south bound due to the car and pt we in the middle of the road.. AST (state troopers) showed and and demanded we open the roan and i kindly told him no, this is my pt, my scene and im shutting it down for safety reasons and for respect for the deceased, he stated since there was not a living pt i had no control over anything on scene, i told him if i open the road then me and my crews are going back to the fire house, he said i had to stay and help with traffic .. told him ill help with traffic, i kept the road shut down
I'll take the bait: why?
Why was it impotant to you to keep a road shut down if there was no safety issue?
How is closing a road & causing numerous problems, maybe even a different safety issue, showing respect for the dead? Who taught you that it was a proper thing to do? I understand being concerned about being ran over while working on the side of the road, but honestly I see a lot of emergency vehicles causing traffic snarls for no reason other than they can. The rest of the world doesn't need to be punished because someone got in a wreck & you were called out there, do they?
