Items of Interest March 18, 2013 Issue

Help and hope for first responders

Linda Ross

“For Sandy Hook first responders, Navy’s remedy is spirituality”
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February 1, 2013

In a recent New York Times story, seven Newtown police officers give a firsthand account of the carnage they found inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14. 

In the piece, Eric Brown, a lawyer for the union that represents the police officers, said many of the officers who responded to the school shooting will likely suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for the rest of their careers.

“We estimate it is probably going to be 12 to 15 Newtown officers who are going to be dealing with that, for the remainder of their careers, we imagine, from what we’ve been told by professionals who deal with PTSD,” Brown states.

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