Whistleblower: A Year Later, LA Paramedics Are Still Left Working With Expired Medication As They Respond To Fires

As wildfires scour the Los Angeles suburbs, resources are scarce — including for the city’s paramedics, who have allegedly been working with expired medication. But this problem is hardly new.

Last year, the Los Angeles Fire Department was allegedly supplying medics with expired medications, Fox 11 reported. At the time, the LAFD claimed it got an “extension” on the expiration dates due to a “supply shortage,” and that “new medication was received” since then. But a whistleblower — who asked The Federalist to protect his identity — says the city is still keeping its medics stocked with expired drugs.

“Imagine I’m your mom or dad and I get expired medication, your mom or dad dies,” the whistleblower said. “What would you say?”

The whistleblower, a firefighter and paramedic, told The Federalist his ambulance is currently stocked with expired medication. He said he deals with expired drugs “literally every day” because the city does not resupply medics with newer doses.

“They continue to not have the medications. Everything expires, and so we can’t keep up,” he said. He sent pictures of epinephrine and nitroglycerin spray, both of which are marked as having expired in November — but are not currently listed as having extended expiration dates…