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Retired EMT’s training harbors hope for violent N.Y. neighborhood

A former EMS captain is teaching members of the Brooklyn neighborhood ‘how to save a life instead of taking a life’

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Volunteers from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Ambulance Corps are trained to expect the worse.

In this Brooklyn neighborhood, shootings and stabbings occur regularly.

“Your job is to try to resuscitate them bring them back to life and then let the emergency room work on them,” says, James Robinson. Robinson, 74, is a retired EMS captain -- and the man behind the EMT training.

Read full story: An EMT grows in Brooklyn