By Linda Blackford

Lexington Herald-Leader

POWELL COUNTY, Ky. — Here’s a sentence you don’t get to write every day: Powell County Judge Executive Eddie Barnes will not be penalized for saving the life of one of his constituents after he gave him anti-venom for a deadly mamba snake bite .

On Tuesday afternoon, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services dismissed a complaint that said Barnes, who is also a county paramedic, should not have administered the anti-venom because he didn’t have licensing as a “wilderness paramedic.”

Barnes and his many supporters contended he still did the right thing in April when he put an IV of anti-venom into Kentucky Reptile Zoo Director Jim Harrison, who was about to pass out while riding in an emergency helicopter on his way to a Lexington ho

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