Three New Orleans EMTs share heartbreaking losses to COVID-19 Share Updated: 5:46 PM CDT May 6, 2021 Share Updated: 5:46 PM CDT May 6, 2021
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Show Transcript AND THE FACE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC NEW ORLEANS EMS FACED BOTH TRAUMA AND TRAGEDY ON THE STREETS AND IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY THAT TRAGEDY STRUCK THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIVES AS WELL. TAKING THEIR LOVED ONES AS THEY WORKED TO SAVE OTHERS AND AS HEATH ALLEN SHOWS US IT’S TAKEN A SPECIAL KIND OF COURAGE TO MAKE IT THROUGH. I’VE ACTUALLY SIGNED THE ER AND CRIED FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE I’M LIKE, I WANT TO SEE I MEAN I’M TRAINED TO WANT TO SEE PEOPLE DO WELL AND IT’S REALLY HARD. IT’S REALLY HARD WHEN COVID CAME AMBER CRAWFORD MET HIS HEAD ON EVERY DAY FEAR ANXIETY PRESSURE CRASHING GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND COVID AND THEN THE WALLS CAME CRASHING IN. I DID I LOST MY DAD AND MY GRANDFATHER WELL THEIR DAD. HOSPITAL A MONTH AND A HALF AMBER CONTINUED TO ROLL WITH EMS HE ACTUALLY BE