The head of the ACT firefighters' union is confident fire crew members who attended an incident of a "seriously ill young person" will be exonerated after allegations they would not help paramedics due to COVID fears.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency is undertaking a review into the response to the distressing incident where a child suffered a cardiac arrest in the early morning of Friday, August 5.
Fire crews attended the incident after paramedics had called for back-up.
