Excellent work by security officer Davay Kinsey, who works for UF (University of Florida) Health Security in Jacksonville, whose actions undoubtedly saved the life of a firefighter stabbed by a patient he was transporting. Kinsey was humble when receiving praise for her actions, saying that the firefighters were the true heroes for what they do day-in and day-out. Kinsey is a true 'sheep dog' as defined by Lt. Col (Ret.) Dave Grossman. "Either you have it or you don't and I'm that person that runs to the trouble," she said. That is the type of person it takes to be a security professional.
-- IFPO.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - UF Health security guard Davay Kinsey got the call Tuesday night from the Trauma One dispatch office.
Two Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighters -- Capt. Latorrence Norris and Engineer Vincent Harper -- were transporting a patient, later identified as 38-year-old Tony Harris. Norris and Harper were being attacked by Harris near 11th and Boulevard (inside their ambulance).
Norris suffered multiple stab wounds from Harris, who allegedly wrestled away Norris' box cutter and began stabbing him. Harper tried to help Norris and was stabbed in the thigh.
Kinsey got to the firefighters and described the situation she saw as "unreal."
"JFRD was doing their best to try to subdue and control the patient inside the unit," Kinsey said. "The only thing I saw was Captain Norris bleeding profusely at his abdomen and from his shirt."
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Kinsey, who went straight into the Air Force after she graduated from Wolfson High School in 1998, said her training kicked in.
"Once they got control of that patient, my first instinct was just to get Captain Norris on my golf cart and take him straight to the trauma unit," she said.
JFRD units had Norris and Harper's rescue unit blocked in from all sides.
"I knew that I was able to get him transported over to the trauma unit faster than everyone else because of the way everything was blocked in," she said.
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She radioed to the trauma unit to have a stretcher ready and that she was on her way up on a golf cart. She said Norris was talking to her as she drove to the trauma unit.
"When I put him on the back side of my golf cart, I kept talking to him as we were driving up to the trauma unit, asking him was he OK, sir stay with me. He was telling me, 'I'm OK; just keep going, just keep going,'" she said.
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