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Paramedic recounts chimp mauling incident in Conn.

By John Pirro
News Times

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STAMFORD, Conn. — After more than five years as an emergency medical technician and a paramedic, New Milford native Andrea Repko has learned to ignore what’s going on around her as she does her job.

Even the gunshots.

So while Repko, 24, tended to the woman who was viciously mauled by a chimpanzee outside a Stamford home last week, she was almost oblivious to the crisis and confusion swirling outside the ambulance.

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