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EMS Swamped by Calls: 'One Day After Another, No End in Sight'

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 4/8/20

Not since 9/11 has the Emergency Medical Service endured the kind of "battlefield" conditions workers faced as March turned to April as the city's coronavirus cases, according to Oren Barzilay, president of District Council 37's Local 2507, which represents Emergency Medical Technicians.

"With 9/11 it was limited to one area of the city, but this is the entire city one day after another with no end in sight," he said in a phone interview. "FEMA has hired 500 EMTS and Medics and we now have ambulances from as far away as California on the streets."

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