EXCLUSIVE: FDNY searching for Joan Rivers 911 info leakers

Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images The FDNY has launched a probe of nearly a dozen EMS workers after learning they accessed the 911 emergency records tied to Joan Rivers’ death, the Day after day News has learned.

The FDNY has launched a probe of nearly a dozen EMS workers — including some high-ranking supervisors — after learning they accessed the 911 emergency records tied to Joan Rivers’ death, the Day after day News has learned.

The hunt has been going on for about two weeks — and FDNY investigators want to know if EMS workers sneaked a peek out of curiosity or to leak details of the case to the media, sources said.

Most of those caught up are from EMS Division 3 in Brooklyn and Division 5 on Staten Island, sources said.

The FDNY can pinpoint who accessed Rivers’ file because each user’s electronic signature was logged every time it was opened.

Eight or nine officers have been hauled to FDNY headquarters for interviews, as well as several rank-and-file technicians and dispatchers, the sources said.

Eight or nine officers have been hauled to FDNY headquarters for interviews, as well as several rank-and-file technicians and dispatchers, the sources said.

Many appeared to have a legitimate explanation for peering at the celebrity comic’s 911 file, according to those with information of the probe.

But the FDNY is on the lookout for anyone who might have shared confidential medical information with reporters, the sources added.

Rivers, 81, died Sept. 4 at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering honest complications during what should have been a routine throat scan at an High East Side clinic.

Surgeons at Yorkville Endoscopy, the clinic where Rivers was having the procedure, called 911 when her air supply was cut off while she was under the knife.

Bobby Bank/WireImage The FDNY can pinpoint who accessed Rivers’ file because each user’s electronic signature was logged every time it was opened.

The News has reported that she also underwent an unplanned biopsy on her vocal cords, performed by her private doctor, while at the clinic.

She went into cardiac and respiratory arrest that sent her into a coma.

The caustic comic had been briefly resuscitated, but then was positioned in a medically induced coma from which she never woke up.

An FDNY ambulance responded to the 911 call and took Rivers to Mount Sinai while paramedics tried frantically to keep her alive.

NBC News An FDNY ambulance responded to the 911 call and took Rivers to Mount Sinai while paramedics tried frantically to keep her alive.

EMS workers must tread carefully anytime they access a patient’s medical records, sources said.

Such information is protected by the federal Shape Insurance Portability and Answerability Act, known as HIPAA.

It’s not necessarily an automatic HIPAA violation for an EMS worker to review a patient’s 911 file, said a former FDNY EMS worker familiar with the laws.

But it would be a HIPAA violation if any of Rivers’ details had been leaked to the press, the source added.

Rivers’ daughter, Melissa Rivers, 46, has indicated she will file a unlawful-death suit against the High East Side clinic.

The FDNY did not immediately respond to a request for note.

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