EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialLuis Huerta, 55, an EMT and firefighter with the Eagle Pass Fire Department, loads a patient while responding to a non-heat related call during a heat wave in Eagle Pass, Texas, June 29, 2023. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialMedical doctor displays proper way to dawn personal protective equipment for first responders, St. Louis, Missouri, United States - 19 Mar 2020
EditorialLeah Levine, left, director of outreach and development for emergency service Ezras Nashim, and Adina Sash, 34, an EMT trainee, ask if they may leave a donation box for the nonprofit at the counter of a hair accessory store in Brooklyn, Oct. 25, 2020 (Yana Paskova/The New York Times)
EditorialJavier De La Cruz, left, and Tim Shelton load a COVID-19 positive patient into the back of their unit outside at a convalescent home in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialParamedic Cris Loguidice, EMT Vincent Cabrera and Captain AndrewJohn Briones, all with Empress Emergency Medical Service, help an elderly woman onto a stretcher at her home in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 20, 2020. (Andrew Renneisen/The New York Times)
EditorialJamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, on May 12, 2020, where Ravi Sharma, an emergency medical technician, was treated after suffering a stroke related to COVID-19. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialParamedic Cris Loguidice, EMT Vincent Cabrera and Captain AndrewJohn Briones, all with Empress Emergency Medical Service, help an elderly woman onto a stretcher at her home in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 20, 2020. (Andrew Renneisen/The New York Times)