Cops probe death of Nassau ambulance medic
Nassau police spokesman Det. Lt. Kevin Smith confirmed that medic Steven Linzer, of Levittown, died Wednesday and the department was treating his case as a line of duty death.
Nassau County Health Department spokeswoman Mary Ellen Laurain said the department's infectious disease specialists are not investigating Linzer's death.
Linzer was married and had children, Smith said.
In 1997, Linzer was recognized for exemplary service after he helped deliver a baby during a call to a residence in New Hyde Park.
In a Newsday story at the time, Linzer recalled how he arrived on the scene of a maternity case call to find two police officers from the Third Precinct trying to deliver the baby. The officers had already delivered the baby's head.
"When I started checking it out," Linzer said, "I noticed that the baby was very blue, which is not typical for delivery. But not only had the head come out, but one of its arms."
The officers tried for about a minute to have the woman push the baby on her own, but the baby was stuck. Linzer knew from experience that it was unlikely that the mother could deliver the baby. "I decided that the only way I could do this was to insert my hands inside the woman and rotate the baby to a position more favorable for delivery," Linzer said. Once he was able to do this, Linzer successfully delivered the remainder of the right arm, and soon the baby was born.
Linzer joined Nassau in the mid 1990s after spending 10 years working in New York City as a medical technician and paramedic.
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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