By Sarah Baldwin
WALB10-TV
Copyright 2008 WorldNow and WALB

THOMASVILLE, Ga. — A Thomas County paramedic, injured on the job, has died. Thirty-seven year old Jeff Harris broke his ankle at work Saturday. That night, he stopped breathing in the middle of the night and died.

There's a special bond held between EMT's and ER nurses. "We have a really close relationship. Because we have to work so close together," said Wendy Smith, a registered nurse at Archbold Hospital. That could not have been more true, than with Harris. "Being a paramedic turns the patient over to us. He would always stay and help especially if it was a critical traumatic patient. He would always stay to help the nurses," said Smith.

Also engaged to an ER nurse, Harris considered the staff here a second family. "I wasn't here but I got a phone call that they went out to Jeff's house, he wasn't breathing and that I needed to come to the hospital," said another Archbold nurse, Cristy Brooks.

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