NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A man attacked an EMT who saved him from an apparent overdose in the Bronx on Thursday night, according to video and union officials.
The video from Pelham Parkway around 9 p.m. shows a man punching and breaking the side glass of an ambulance and then going inside as an EMT runs out the back.
Paramedic Anthony Almojera, vice president of the FDNY EMS Officers Union Local 3621, said the chaos started in the ambulance.
“They treat the guy. They get him in the back of the ambulance. They’re on their way to Jacobi Hospital. While on their way to Jacobi Hospital, the guy wakes up, becomes extremely violent, starts attacking the crew member who’s in the back, the EMT in the back of the ambulance,” Almojera said.
The EMT was punched and repeatedly spit on but is OK. The man was still on the loose Friday.
Almojera said the incident is not uncommon and highlights the need for pay parity with other emergency responders.
“A worldwide pandemic where thousands were dead, EMS lights and sirens were lighting the way. And to be sitting here now after another incident of a crew being assaulted, to say they won’t even give us a proper raise is disheartening,” Almojera said.
1010 WINS has reached out to the NYPD and FDNY.
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