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AMR: West Hartford paramedic to receive national honor for her ‘life-saving’ response

WEST HARTFORD — It was a hot August day last year when paramedics Raquel Soto and her partner Howard Freeman were called to a parking garage in downtown Hartford.

Soto, a Newington resident who works as a paramedic for American Medical Response in West Hartford and the surrounding areas, said when they arrived, she saw a man at the top of the parking structure threatening to jump.

“My partner and I pulled up to the scene and I saw the guy,” Soto said. “I said, ‘I’m not watching this.’ I went up there to try and do anything I could in the meantime to get him down from there.”

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