Wanted: Self-starters who can take high stress with low pay, handle a daily grind coupled with bouts of life-and-death intensity and deal compassionately with all types of personalities — plus complete state-required training.
An average day for a city EMT or paramedic includes all of the above — and never have the dangers of the job been as visible as they were in the death last week of Yadira Arroyo.
Arroyo, 44, a 14-year FDNY emergency medical technician with five children, died Thursday in the Bronx at the hands of crazed career criminal Jose Gonzalez, according to authorities.