Thursday, March 28, 2019 ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SC (WRDW/WAGT) — A paramedic with a history of getting high on the job was one of the EMTs who failed a man with a disability. Paul Tarashuk had schizphrenia. He was hit and killed on Interstate 95 after Orangeburg County EMS abandoned him. Our I-Team has learned this isn’t the first time the state has investigated the paramedic who failed him. Orangeburg County did not report the events leading up to Tarashuk’s death, but an anonymous person did. Seven months later, DHEC published its actions, and we found problems across South Carolina. It didn’t take a trained professional to realize something was wrong with Tarashuk. Tarashuk was non-verbal by the time EMS arrived. On body camera footage captured the moments during Tarashuk’s treatment by the EMS team, we see Alison Harmon. Harmon, a paramedic, was the senior medical person on board the ambulance. Harmon and the team did not take Tarashuk to the hospital. Four hours later, he was killed by car while walking down I-95. DHEC determined Harmon and EMT Jamie Davis did not properly assess Tarahshuk. They abandoned him instead of taking him to the hospital. They also lied. Givens falsified…