Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Fund Created for Children of Woman Killed by Bomb : Donations: Two paramedics who responded to the call say the incident had a big effect on their lives.

As paramedics, Sterling Hickey and Ralph Calicher are on hand at a lot of heart-wrenching scenes.

But what they witnessed last month when they responded to the scene of a pipe-bomb explosion that killed a 33-year-old single mother and seriously injured one of her three children had an effect on them like never before.

So great was the impact on the two Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics that on Wednesday they established a trust fund to benefit the children.

“We set it up because of the circumstances that were so much different on this call than a lot of calls we have,” Hickey said. “The mother was without a job, finding material to recycle in order to provide for her three kids . . . when the bomb went off.”

Lynn Standish died May 20 after discovering a pipe bomb while searching for recyclables in the desert near her Pearblossom home. Standish’s 4-year-old son suffered leg injuries in the explosion.

“I went with (Standish’s) injured son to the hospital, I rode the 25 minutes with him in the back of the ambulance,” Hickey said. “We cared a lot about their welfare after this occurred.”

Scott Douglas Hamby, 31, is believed to have manufactured the bomb that killed Standish. A warrant has been issued for his arrest and he has been charged with murder with the special circumstance of death with an explosive device.

News stories on the tragic incident, Hickey said, have already generated some donations for Standish’s children.

“The 9-year-old is really the hero of the whole story,” Hickey said. “He’s the one that picked up his brother, carried him to the car, reclined the seat, took off his shirt and covered the wound to stop the bleeding. Then, he ran down a dirt road about half a mile to flag down some (people driving by) who eventually called us.”

Anyone wishing to donate money for the children can send checks to Children of Lynn Standish Trust Fund, care of the Pearblossom Foursquare Church, P.O. Box 440, Pearblossom 93553.

“I’ve never done this before and Ralph hasn’t either,” Hickey said. “But then again, we’ve never come across a call like this.”