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.
The registry said Teel forged a paper credential indicating he had received the required 1,200 hours of training needed to be a paramedic.
Teel did not respond to requests for comment, KUSA said.
Randy Kuykendall, head of the state health department's Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Section, said AMR should have checked Teel's documentation against state or national records available online, which would have revealed the forgery.
The truly sad part of this story is this person attempted to use his fake credentials in Wyoming only 2 months after being caught in Denver. Why isn’t it illegal to impersonate a Paramedic in the United States?
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