An EMT was fired last week after he posted a murder victim's photo on Facebook, according to the Staten Island Today.

On March 30, 26-year-old Caroline Wimmer was found strangled to death in her home. Mark Musarella, an EMT with the Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, responded to the scene. Musarella allegedly took a photo of the victim with a hair dryer cord still wrapped around her neck and posted it on his personal Facebook page. Colleagues saw the photo and reported it to the New York Police Department.

Before becoming an EMT, Musarella was a detective in the NYPD's Emergency Services Unit.

"This is a new phenomenon that fire departments face with the camera phones and taking pictures for the media," said Gary Ludwig, chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs EMS Section and deputy chief of the Memphis (Tenn.) Fire Department.

Ludwig encouraged fire departments to have policies and procedures in place to address these issues that are so readily available with today's technology.

"It's reprehensible that professionals would do something and compromise the trust put into us by the public," Ludwig said. "There is no value in posting those pictures on the Internet and it violates the public trust."

Ludwig's department has stressed to its personnel the sensitive nature of such pictures and how their improper use could inflict more trauma on victims and families.

"As long as they are working for us, we control what they do during their job time," Ludwig said. "Number one, they shouldn't be taking pictures and number two, we have an approval procedure for anything distributed or posted, including department photographers."