Regrettably paramedic Ralph Oswald died in the line of duty on February 9, 2015. Read the LODD announcement.
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HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. — After seeing a segment about fitness on NBC’s “Today Show” last year, Hampton Bays resident Ralph Oswald, 64, felt compelled to inform the show’s producers about the difficulties that prevent police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel from living healthy lifestyles.
“I said it would nice to get in shape, but you’re not dealing with the realities that these jobs—police, firefighters, EMS—have,” Mr. Oswald said last week while sitting in a Friendly’s booth with his wife Suzanne. “I could make a nice meal for myself, put it in the microwave and get banged out for a call. I’m ravenous when I get out of the call, I’ll stop someplace, grab something to eat, come back and reheat what I have in the microwave—I eat again because I haven’t been satisfied yet. The timing and the meal breaks and everything else, it’s almost impossible to balance your meals out.”
Mr. Oswald, the lead paramedic with the Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance Corps, weighed in at more than 200 pounds at the time and noted that there weren’t many in his profession at his age because the unhealthy lifestyle that comes with it along with the demands of having to go “from 0 to 100 percent in a matter of moments.”
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