EMT WORKERS EXPLAIN LEAVING DYING PREGNANT WOMAN: Attorney claims pair radioed for help and stayed until they knew ambulance was coming.

       Attorney Douglas Rosenthal said Thursday EMTs Jason Green and Melisa Jackson were only asked to summon an ambulance on Dec. 9 when they were taking a break in a Brooklyn Au Bon Pain eatery. He said they never saw Eutisha Rennix, who was in the back of the store, and that other employees didn't seem overly concerned about her condition.      

       "There was no apparent panic," Rosenthal said in a statement.      

       Witnesses have said the EMTs told workers to call 911, then left when they were asked to help the 25-year-old pregnant woman. Rennix, who also was the mother of a 3-year-old boy, died at a hospital shortly afterward. The cause of death has not been determined. Her baby did not survive the premature birth.      

       Rosenthal said Jackson, a four-year veteran, was asked by an employee to summon an ambulance because the six-months-pregnant Rennix was showing asthmatic symptoms and was experiencing abdominal pain. Rosenthal said Jackson radioed for an ambulance and she and Green, a six-year veteran, stayed until they knew help was coming.      

       "They were thanked by the employee for their response," he said.      

       Rosenthal said "protocol, training and regulations" also kept the two emergency workers from intervening further because they didn't have any equipment or medications and worked as dispatchers rather than in the field.      

       Green and Jackson have been suspended without pay. They are also under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office and the state Department of Health, which oversees EMT training.