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Inside EMS Podcast: Va. shooting prompts call for EMS body armor again

Co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson also discuss the story out of Beaufort, S.C., where county employees lost their health benefits

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In this week’s Inside EMS podcast, hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson discuss how an EMS agency in South Carolina cut their employees’ health care benefits.

“Those people entered into their employment agreement. They held up their end of the bargain. It is not fair in any way, shape or form to go back and yank their benefits retroactively,” Grayson said. “I don’t know how they can get away with it.”

Chris and Kelly also talk about the shooting of the news crew in Virginia and what it will mean for the citizens’ safety in the future.

“Where are we safe? We are not safe to go to the movies, we are not safe to go to church, we are not safe to go to schools, and this is just now becoming too common,” Cebollero said.

Here are links to some of the articles mentioned on the show:

SC EMS agency employees lose health care benefits

Reporter and photographer killed during live TV broadcast

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