Driver stopped for DUI by Tampa fire engine

Baack · May 24, 2010

TAMPA, FL -- Tampa fire engine 8 and its crew were returning from a call Thursday morning when Captain Jack Atkisson noticed a car weaving in and out of traffic.

Atkisson said the driver appeared to be impaired. "She pulled back over onto I-275 and almost sideswiped a truck," Atkisson said. "That's when I knew we had to do something to get her off the road."

Atkisson had his driver activate his light bar to get the driver to stop. "We flipped the lights and sure enough, they pulled over."

Once the car was pulled over, Atkisson had the dispatcher call Tampa Police, who determined the driver was under the influence of prescription drugs. Sabrina Damian went to jail.

Atkisson said he has had to run into burning buildings to save lives several times in his 20 year career, but this is the first time he may have saved someone's life by pulling her over on the highway.
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59Panhead · May 24, 2010

This was all over the news this AM here... I bet she was coming from some rave club in Ybor City.......

Hardlyevr · May 24, 2010

too bad they couldn't set the car on fire so she wouldn't do it again, and then they could put it out for practice!

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