Bowden v. Cary Fire Protection District

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• finding, as a matter of law, that paramedics’ conduct in treating an asthma patient who later died was not willful and wanton because they provided “extensive care” and because their conduct was “in conformity with the written SOPs governing the treatment of asthma patients”
• EMTs’ difficulty in providing oxygen to decedent was not willful and wanton misconduct given the extensive care provided to decedent in conformity with SOPs
• EMTs' difficulty in providing oxygen to decedent was not willful and wanton misconduct given the extensive care provided to decedent in conformity with SOPs
• we evaluate willful and wanton “in light of the circumstances in which they found themselves and not under the unassailable illumination of hindsight” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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