(South Kingstown, RI) -- The South Kingstown Town Council honored several first responders on Monday who arrived for a medical emergency involving the head of the Rhode Island State Police. Colonel James Manni says he was doing yard work on July 23rd when he was stung multiple times by a swarm of yellow jackets. South Kingstown paramedics Sarah Peet and Keith DeCesare, as well as EMS captain Frank Capaldi, were able to revive Superintendent Manni, and he had sought to have them recognized.
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