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Mike Greco was worried. In early March 2020, New York City had confirmed its first case of Covid-19, and the vice president of Local 2507, the union representing employees of the city’s emergency medical services (EMS), knew how overworked and exhausted EMS workers already were. At a special City Council hearing on March 5, he testified that EMS was already handling 1.5 million calls a year. “If you were to have another half million calls in a pandemic, you would overwhelm the system,” he said.
A prayer bench used by the Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fire Department of New York chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11, 2001, was driven from Rising Sun to the New York area Sunday to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum, museum officials said.
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Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fransiscan who was praying in the lobby of the trade center’s north tower when he was crushed by debris from the falling south tower, used to visit a home in Maryland and use the bench for prayer.