The Brief
- Pasco Deputy Buddy Allman was injured while alerting people to rising water during Hurricane Milton.
- He spent several weeks in the hospital in a medically-induced coma.
- The type of injury he suffered only allows him to collect 66 percent of his pay.
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – More help could be on the way for law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty across the state. The Deputy Andy Lahera Act, named after critically injured Citrus County Deputy Lahera, would help financially cover law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty.
On Saturday, a benefit event for injured Pasco Deputy Buddy Allman was held at the Rotary Concourse Pavillion in Spring Hill.
On October 18 last year, Allman was riding in a Humvee to urge people to evacuate as the Withlacoochee River crested from Hurricane Milton. He said, “I was in a Humvee driving up and down the roads. We had a big speaker up on top of it which would project the sound letting people know that the waters were rising.” The asphalt under his and his partner collapsed. …