Pacific Coast Safety and Training

Thursday, October 2nd 2008, 12:59 AM

A handcuffed Bronx EMT was hit by two Metro-North trains Wednesday hours after he sent a distraught text message to a friend, police said.

Two northbound trains heading to North White Plains ran over William Jenkins, 34, before a crew spotted his mangled body under the second train at6:50 a.m., north of the Mount Vernon West station.

Jenkins' mother said her son was frustrated over financial woes. "He went through hell and back again," said Alice Jenkins, 76. "With the energy and everything going up, it was tough to make ends meet."

DENVER -- A man used a fake credential to work as a paramedic on the Front Range for 17 months before the forgery was discovered, KUSA-TV in Denver reported.

Todd Teel, 40, worked as a paramedic at Greenwood Village-based American Medical Response from July 2006 until December 2007 at AMR's Denver and Longmont divisions, the station reported.

Teel was a certified emergency medical technician from 2004 to 2007, but the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians reports Teel was never a certified paramedic, KUSA reported Thursday.