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The living woman was declared dead without an assessment, Colorado officials said.

One of the firefighters told a doctor the woman was 'bloated and obviously dead' without assessing her.

A disciplinary letter obtained by The Denver Post says both were involved in a call seeking the declaration even though they hadn't seen her.

Lieutenant Patrick Lopez and Firefighter Marshall Henry were disciplined for having a doctor pronounce a woman dead despite not having assessed her themselves.

Lieutenant Patrick Lopez said the officer who went inside told firefighters they didn't need to go inside because the woman was "obviously dead." Lopez told his crew to stay outside. Lopez then told another firefighter, Marshall Henry, to all Denver Health and ask for a field pronouncement of death from an emergency room doctor, according to the order, even though neither of them had assessed the woman themselves.