‘IT WAS LIKE TRIAL BY FIRE’: OMAHA-AREA EMT’S RETURN FROM NEW YORK, SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES

OMAHA – Bellevue resident Lucas Nielson served as an EMT in New York for 21 days. Nielsen was one of 60 EMTs deployed to the city by Midwest Medical Transport, a company subcontracted with American Medical Response to assist with disasters like the coronavirus.

Omaha Station Manager Angela Kirchner stated that “Walking into the ERs, it was almost like entering a third-world country hospital setting with how many people were there. It was wall to wall with people waiting, coughing. You had to maneuver between all the patients in order to find the patient you were looking for.”

Kirchner has said that no one that was deployed to New York has tested positive as of now.

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