“The horrific stabbing of an EMT by her patient underscores the dangers faced by emergency medical workers every day,” Bryn Lloyd-Bollard said.
The 25-year-old Mount Sinai West FDNY first responder, was hacked with a kitchen knife while en route to a hospital near West 58th Street and 9th Avenue on Wednesday night, police said.
“The horrific stabbing of an EMT by her patient underscores the dangers faced by emergency medical workers every day,” Lloyd-Bollard continued, adding, “New York must do all it can to ensure that these frontline heroes are able to do their jobs free from the threat of physical harm.”“All of our units are staged at street corners. We’re sitting ducks,” said Oren Barzilay, head of Local 2507 representing ambulance EMTs and paramedics, which are not contracted out by the FDNY.
The alleged assailant, Rudy Garcia, 48, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on an attempted murder charge for allegedly stabbing the first responder in the arm, chest and leg, prosecutors said.
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