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Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:04

Honoring fallen EMS responders

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- EMS responders from across the state are honoring their colleagues who died serving their communities as well as those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001. The memorial service was supposed to be held this past September 11th, but was postponed due to flooding from Tropical Storm Lee. More 150 men and women of Pennsylvania’s EMS gathered at the Capitol to hear the names and pay respects, once more, to colleagues who died on a run. "When you get an ambulance call, the old jargon was, 'It’s a run.' Using that as, 'Hey, he runs with, or he ran with.'" says Barry Albertson, who serves with Suburban EMS in Northampton County and is president of the Ambulance Association of Pennsylvania. "If you’re currently on a...working, then you run with that service. It’s just the jargon we use to say you belong to some organization or another." Some 42 EMS providers from throughout the country died responding to the terrorist attacks in 2001. The crowd also heard the names of EMS responders from Pennsylvania who died on duty during the past 20 years.

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