VIDEO: The Beverly Hills firefighter paramedics will have another person riding on board when they respond to 911 calls. The Nurse Practitioner 1 (NP1) unit will be an effort to ease the crowds in emergency rooms. "She has the ability to treat those patients that we can't do as paramedics," says firefighter paramedic Scott Marquez. After responding to a 911 call, paramedics will evaluate a patient at the scene and if they determine the person does not need to go to the emergency room they will then call in the nurse practitioner. The NP1 unit has a lot of the medical necessities that you would find at an urgent care so they can treat the patient right there on the scene. Marquez says the point of the one-year program is to keep patients out of the emergency rooms, and cut down on overcrowding.