147 FDNY EMTs graduate from EMS Academy
After 13 weeks of training at the EMS Academy, 147 new FDNY EMTs graduated today along with 40 U.S. service members.
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May 24, 2022, 4:51 PM
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Updated 695 days ago
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13 weeks of training at the EMS Academy, 147 new FDNY EMTs graduated today
along with 40 U.S. service members.
FDNY
EMTs were at the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among
the graduating class was one of the young men who was the first to
respond to the mass shooting inside the 36th Street subway shooting in Sunset
Park. Another one of the graduates, Joe Downey, lost his grandfather on 9/11
and follows in the footsteps of his father and uncle.
The
graduating class presented the families of NYPD detectives Jason Rivera
and Wilbert Mora with a check for more than $14,000 that they had
raised.
The
FDNY livestreamed the event on its Twitter feed:
