EMT Injured Trying To Break Up Brawl

A Flanders brawl got ugly on June 19 when a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. tried to break up the fight.

According to Southampton Town police, a volunteer with the Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corp. reported that while on duty at the station house he heard a knock at the door. When he went to answer, he was approached by a man who had come to get help because he and his friends, who are hispanic, were being beaten by a group of white males.

When the complaintant went outside to investigate, he said he saw the white males engaged in a physical altercation with the hispanic males. And, when he tried to intercede, one of the suspects allegedly hit him in the leg with a metal pipe and fled westbound on New York State Route 24, police said.

The suspects are described as white males in their 20s or 30s, of medium height and weight. One was wearing a red shirt and red shorts; the other was wearing a black top and black pants. 

The EMT complained of minor leg pain as a result on the incident.