Sallee v. GTE South, Inc.

LEIBSON, Justice.

This case requires us to revisit the parameters of the so-called “Fireman’s Rule” (henceforth, Firefighter’s Rule) as articulated in Buren v. Midwest Indus., Inc., Ky., 380 S.W.2d 96 (1964) and Hawkins v. Sunmark Indus., Inc., Ky., 727 S.W.2d 397 (1986).

*278Movant, Phillip Sallee, a paramedic for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Fire Department, seeks damages for injuries sustained during the course of his employment, allegedly caused by the respondents’ negligence.1

In the early morning hours of January 23, 1990, Sallee and two other paramedics responded to a call to…