Derrick Deanda is being charged $143 after first responders checked his pulse and gave him a bottle of water after he saved a father and his three children from the rolled-over vehicle. He then smashed the window to see if the passengers were OK 
 
 Deanda then smashed a window to check if everyone was OK, but suffered a small cut in the process. “There was a guy standing inside the van, because it was on its side, holding a 2 year-old infant.” 
 
 Deanda broke the glass to free the family before paramedics arrived. But weeks later Deanda got a bill in the mail from the Cosumnes Community Services District with a $143 first-responder fee. He told CBS Sacramento: 'I mean why would I want to stop to help somebody if I'm going to get a bill for $150?' Deputy Chief Mike McLaughlin says his district billed the good Samaritan. ''We're obligated to provide the same level of service, the same billing the same everything, for every patient we encounter,' he told the station. He said Deanda technically became a patient when he suffered the cut. 'This is truly a unique situation,' he said. “In my 28 years, this is my first time I’ve run into a situation similar to this.” 
 
 The district began implementing the fee two years ago in a move it says prevents fire station brownouts. But in this case, McLaughlin says he'd like to see the fee waived.
– Derrick Deanda saw a van on its side after a rollover crash in Elk Grove, California, broke windows to free the father and three kids trapped inside, and then ... got billed $143. "I pulled up right as it happened," Deanda recalls to CBS Sacramento of the September 2015 incident. "There was a guy standing inside the van, because it was on its side, holding a 2 year-old infant." After paramedics arrived, they briefly checked over Deanda, who had a small cut from breaking the glass, checking his pulse and giving him a bottle of water. That's why, weeks after the crash, he got a bill in the mail for a "first-responder fee." "We’re obligated to provide the same level of service, the same billing, the same everything, for every patient we encounter," explains deputy fire chief Mike McLaughlin. "I asked the paramedics for a bottle of water to clean my hand off because I had a small scrape on my hand they ask me questions and they consider that an assessment on me," Deanda wrote on Facebook, per the Daily Mail. McLaughlin says the fire department wants to "make it right" and waive the fee, but that hasn't happened yet, and Deanda plans to formally appeal. He also says the fee sends the wrong message: "Why would I want to stop to help somebody if I’m going to get a bill for $150?" The family members he helped are all OK.