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Webster, N.Y. — Steve Marino could not believe what the dispatcher was telling him: “Firefighters down on Lake Road in Webster.” “You’ve never heard of such a thing,” Marino said.
After 9 years as a paramedic with Rural/Metro, Marino has heard and seen a lot. That experience, however, did not prepare him for what he encountered when he arrived on scene on that cold Christmas Eve morning. “It was hectic,” he said. “First responders, paramedics, EMTs, police officers, firefighters — everyone trying to figure things out and make a plan.”
His job, in a way, was simple: help the victims, all of them first responders. “I worked with all of them (the victims) very closely,” Marino said. Marino was the first person to lay hands on the men, two of whom he knew right away were dead. “That was the hardest part,” Marino said.
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