Priorities: Holley, New York volunteer accused of leaving his own toddlers home alone to answer ambulance call.

WHEC-TV coverage

Holley Volunteer Ambulance, Inc.

Richard Fiorito, a driver for Holley Volunteer Ambulance, has been charged with endangering his own children, a four-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy. According to WHEC-TV, Fiorito left them home alone while he answered an emergency call Friday night. The TV station says Chief William Murphy of the Holley Police Department and Fiorito both confirm that it was Fiorito's ex, the mother of the children who turned him in. Here's more:

Fiorito says she heard his voice on the radio Friday night (she's with the Holley Fire Department) and got suspicious. Fiorito says she called his mother to see if she was looking after the children (which she wasn't). Then he says she came by his apartment and found no one there. That's when she called 911. 

Chief Murphy says Fiorito is sorry for what he's accused of doing (and what he admitted to doing). "He stated that it's the stupidest thing he's ever done and he feels terrible about the whole matter," the chief said.

WHEC-TV also has Fiorito's statement to police, obtained from charging documents:

On Friday March 18 at or about 9:51 p.m. Holley ambulance received a call. At or about 10:05 p.m. I left and went to the ambulance base. My children were in bed sleeping. When I was at the hospital I received a call from (police) asking me who was with my kids. I told him (my friend) was. He asked me why she wouldn't come to the door and I told him she was probably asleep. He told me he would be waiting for me to come home. When I got back to the station I asked (my friend) to go to my house and go in through the back door so she could be seen in the house when I entered with police. I arrived home and let the police in. I know I was wrong and I screwed up. I should not have left my children home alone. I am sorry.