UPDATE: Sheriff Paxton's "Private Matter" Goes Public

UPDATE: (April 2, 2012, 5 p.m., Forsyth County Fire Chief Danny Bowman's decision.)

What may have been a private matter a couple of months ago has exploded into a media frenzy with several Atlanta and local media outlets, including Cumming Patch, reporting on an incident involving Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton.

The controversy stems around a 911 call that was made on Jan. 13 around 11:14 p.m. by a woman who sounded upset and said she found a man unconscious in the doorway of her home located at 6020 Lakeside Court in Cumming.

That man was Sheriff Paxton and the woman identified herself on the 911 call as Paula.

During that emergency call the woman requests an ambulance to her home because a man is "passed out" at her front door. She never identifies who the man is but tells the operator she had been out and he was babysitting for her. She also says that "the baby is fine, the baby is fine."

The operator asks the woman if the man is breathing and she replies, "I don't know; he's been drinking." But a moment later she says that he is breathing. Midway through the call she tells the operator "he's talking now."

Paxton, 59, told Cumming Patch, "It turned out after subsequent evaluation by my medical doctor that I had an imbalance in my blood sugar level and that was the cause of the episode."

He also said, "And beyond that I am not going to discuss any other medical issues that are private between me and my doctor – that's it; I'm not going to."

Paxton also released the following statement to Cumming Patch:

"On January 13, 2012 I was visiting at a private residence when I became ill. The owner of the residence properly called 911 for medical assistance. As indicated by the 911 recording, the caller told emergency personnel that I was not responsive and that an ambulance should be dispatched. At several times throughout this panicked call, the caller was noticeably shaken and unable to correctly answer questions.

As a result of the call, an ambulance and emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the residence and rendered aid. In the course of assessment and treatment, the first responders checked vital signs, assessed the situation and surrounding circumstances, and determined that no substantive treatment was necessary at the time. Subsequent medical evaluation revealed I was suffering from a blood sugar imbalance which caused the event.

No improper conduct occurred, which makes this simply a private matter."

A report filed by Lt. Nathan Neal Head with the Forsyth County Fire Department, obtained through an Open Records request, states: "Upon arrival we found no emergency on scene. We left the scene with the occupants."

The report never mentions who the person was.

Forsyth County Fire Chief Danny Bowman confirmed today, April 2, to Cumming Patch that he has issued a verbal warning to the three firefighters who responded to the 911 call. According to Bowman, Head, and firefighters D.S. Delashmit and H.O. Fischer filed an incomplete Patient Assessment report.

"They are outstanding troops," Bowman said. "They simply made a mistake. They took the blood pressure, but didn't put it in the report. I don't hammer troops who make a mistake."

On March 22 an internal investigation into the January incident was initiated by Bowman and written by Division Chief Kevin Wallace, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

News of the 911 call surfaced around the time .

, said that this is a politically motivated incident.

"That someone is trying to take something in my personal life, my private life, and the fact that I simply had a medical incident and turned it into something that it is not," he said. "And I'm just not going to discuss it any further; it's a private matter."

Bill Johnson contributed to this article.