Out-of-Town Paramedics to Leave NYC After Responding to Thousands of Emergency Calls
Published May 28, 2020
First responders who answered New York City’s call at the height of the coronavirus pandemic will caravan out Thursday morning as hospitalizations rate steadily drop.
Jeremy Poole, a medic from south Georgia, is among the 1,600 first responders from out-of-state who initially came to the Big Apple in late March. He will finally get to quietly rest at home after helping answer some of the 35,000 emergency calls around the city for weeks.
“I’m from a town that’s got five red lights, this is a pretty big city for me,” Poole told NBC New York on his last night in the city. “Coming in I probably wasn’t as fearful for myself, but getting here, it got a little real.”
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