Winston-Salem firefighter heads home from hospital

Firefighter Ross Flynt walked out of the hospital to cheers and applause Wednesday, days after he was shot outside a Winston-Salem restaurant.

The Winston-Salem Fire Department tweeted a video of Flynt on the way out the door and thanking Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist for taking care of him. Last Friday, Flynt and his rescue crew were eating lunch outside the restaurant before a shooting happened. They were also on duty at the time.

Battalion Chief Patrick Grubbs and Engine Company Three Captain Daniel Gossett were with Flynt that morning for a training session.

"We were doing a little bit of live smoke training, climbing in windows and cutting holes in roofs and just normal training that we do all of the time," Grubbs said.

The group broke apart to go get lunch that afternoon. Grubbs heard the call come in when he returned to the station.

"We heard the radio traffic, is how we learned that something was going on but we didn't know exactly what it was at the time," Grubbs said.



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