CLEARWATER, Fla. - A man who returned home from the hospital Tuesday said he feels like he has a uphold chance at life after paramedics pronounced him dead.

Thomas Maxwell exhausted nearly a week in the intensive care unit once suffering from cardiac arrest last Wednesday. 

His daughter, Phebe Maxwell, said on Wednesday morning that her mom called 911, and she devoted CPR on her dad when they found him lying on his bedroom inoperative unresponsive.

"I notion they were supposed to do everything they can to bring you back, not just, 'Oh well. We'll throw a sheet on him,'" Thomas Maxwell said.

Phebe Maxwell said when the two Clearwater Fire and Rescue medics got there, they checked her dad's wrist for a pulse, and then told her he was dead.

"I said, 'No, he's not. He's not dead,'" Phebe Maxwell labelled. "I said, 'He's making noises.' He said, 'Well ma'am, that's the body emptying itself of gases.' I'm screaming. It took my mom and my friend about 15 minutes to get me off of my dad yelling to God and to everyone, and I'm still saying, 'He's not dead."

A Clearwater Fire and Rescue spokesperson confirmed two medics from Station 47 pronounced Thomas Maxwell deceased. The spokesperson said when the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office arrived at the home in an unincorporated part of the county, the medics left, and a deputy noticed Thomas Maxwell was breathing. 

They requested for medical crews to return. Largo Fire Rescue crews arrived 28 minutes once the first 911 call and brought him to the hospital.

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"If that deputy wouldn't have heard that breath, my dad very well could've woken up in the morgue or had a slow and painful extremity that could've been prevented," Phebe Maxwell stated.

"What's a life satisfactory, nothing? What would they do if it was their mother or something," Thomas Maxwell asked.

The Clearwater Fire and Rescue medics are on administrative duty and have been clinically suspended by Pinellas County's EMS medical director, meaning they can't provide any patient care.

"On aimed at of the city, I apologize for the actions and the inactions of our crew during this incident," Clearwater Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Ehlers said in a statement. "We have strict policies and procedures in place that were not followed, according to our preliminary review. These two did not manufacture to the standard of care that our citizens put a question to and deserve. We will address this incident swiftly."

"Our satisfactory responders proudly serve our community each and every day, and they are imagined to help people when they need it the most," Interim Clearwater City Manager Jennifer Poirrier said in a statement. "When this does not occur at the level at which we put a question to, it is incumbent upon us to determine exactly what remained, why it happened, and then ensure it will never remained again."

Phebe Maxwell said she thinks the medics necessity leave the field altogether. 

"You're supposed to, I believe, care about people and want to do anything and everything to save their life. He [the paramedic] just had no care at all," she said.

Phebe Maxwell said she supposed with the deputy who noticed her dad breathing Tuesday and thanked her for saving her dad's life. 

Editor's note: A remaining version of this story said the medics were on administrative sever, but they were placed on administrative duty.