Toronto firefighter who wound up in California may have suffered head injury
A Toronto fire captain who was found at a California airport six days after vanishing from a New York state ski slope likely sustained some sort of head trauma along his puzzling journey across the country, American authorities said Wednesday.
Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis was unable to provide officers with many details about his route from Lake Placid, N.Y., to the Sacramento, Calif., airport other than that he believed he travelled most of the way in a transport truck and was not the victim of any crime, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said a day after the firefighter was found.
“When we asked him how he got here, he couldn’t remember much,” Sgt. Shaun Hampton told the Canadian Press. “He was skiing and that’s what he last remembered. He had a significant amount of trouble remembering what occurred over the last few days.”
Filippidis, a 49-year-old captain with Toronto Fire Services, was on an annual ski trip with friends and colleagues when he disappeared from Whiteface Mountain.