St. Louis Fire Department instructor falsely claimed that he ran to the aid of victims at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Shawn Daniel, a paramedic training officer for the city's fire department, had said he was among the emergency workers who hurried to help the injured. A statement from the St. Louis Fire Department said that Daniel never was on the scene of the bombing and did not provide medical assistance. At one point, the statement specifies that "Daniel falsely identified himself in actual scene video footage as a first responder rendering aid to an injured civilian. The first responder he falsely claimed to be has (subsequently) been positively identified as a Boston firefighter."