This paramedic driving around in an ambulance may not be the picture of safe driving, but he sure does know how to vogue.

Usually, I lie. At a party, someone asks the question. It’s someone who hasn’t smelled the rancid decay of week-dead flesh or heard the rattle of fluid flooding lungs. I shake the ice in my glass, smile, and lie. When they say, “I bet you always get that question,” I roll my eyes and agree.

An EMS technician performing CPR on a man suffering from a heart attack refused to let a tiny thing like having a heart attack of his own stop him from saving his patient's life.

An FDNY EMT dispatcher stayed on the phone with a stroke victim for eight hours as rescuers tried to pinpoint where the distressed and slurring woman had fallen.