Three Memphis firefighters have been fired for violating “numerous” department protocols in the treatment of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis Fire Department announced Monday, Jan. 30.

Emergency Medical Technicians Robert Long and JaMicheal Sandridge and Lt. Michelle Whitaker responded to calls from Memphis police Jan. 7 after Nichols was beaten severely by Memphis Police officers.

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“Their actions or inactions on the scene that night do not meet the expectations of the Memphis Fire Department and are not reflective of the outstanding service the men and women of the Memphis Fire Department provide daily in our community,” the fire department concluded after its investigation.

According to the fire department investigation, police dispatchers told them Nichols has been pepper sprayed.

MFD said when Long, Sandridge and Whitaker got to the scene at 8:41 p.m., Nichols was handcuffed on the ground leaning against a police cruiser. Whitaker stayed in the truck, which she was driving, while Long and Sandridge walked to Nichols.

“Our investigation has concluded that the two EMTs responded based on the initial nature of the call ... and information they were told on the scene and failed to conduct an adequate patient assessment of Mr. Nichols,” the MFD statement reads. “After their initial interaction with Mr. Nichols, they requested an ambulance to respond.”

The EMTs called for an ambulance, which was dispatched at 8:46 p.m. and arrived on the scene at 8:55 p.m. The crew in the ambulance then began treating Nichols and transported him to St. Francis Hospital at 9:08 p.m.