NEW YORK — FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro presided over the graduation of 29 EMTs on Wednesday at the FDNY Headquarters. Seven of the graduates also attended the FDNY High School for Fire and Life Safety in Brooklyn, which they graduated from in 2013. Additionally, two of the graduates are veterans of the United States Armed Forces.
“The Department is responding to more medical emergencies than ever before,” said Nigro. “These newly graduated EMTs will be on the front lines for those emergencies, bringing pre-hospital care to New Yorkers and dispatching resources where they are needed most.”
Over the last 12 months, these new EMTs have already served as FDNY emergency medical dispatchers, answering thousands of emergency medical calls and dispatching FDNY resources throughout New York City.
Seven FDNY EMT graduates who attended the High School for Fire and Life Safety. (FDNY Twitter photo)
During the past 9 weeks at the FDNY EMS Academy, they were trained as EMTs in FDNY operations and procedures, and updated in all aspects of their job: CPR, patient medical and trauma assessments, oxygen and ventilation skills, management of hypotension and fractures, spinal immobilization and emergency childbirth, and emergency vehicle operation.