Rothwell-Cusack: Apartment Building

Toronto Emergency Medical Services Dept: In a soft and sometimes trembling voice, Rothwell-Cusack said it was only her fifth shift as a paramedic for Toronto Emergency Medical Services, and she and her partner, Trevor Cornwell, somehow concluded it would be dangerous to attend the Alexander St. apartment building where James Hearst, 59, had collapsed, according to The Star. When they got the call, they were told a man in his fifties was lying on the floor of the apartment lobby, that he was bleeding from the head and police had been notified and there was a brief recess for tears. Then paramedic Hayley Rothwell-Cusack regained her composure and told an inquest of the night she and her partner refused to attend to a dying man for more than 35 minutes as they waited for a police escort. Rothwell-Cusack testified on Thursday they weren t told of any specific danger in the area when they decided to stage or refuse to enter the apartment without police backup on June 25, 2009. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.