Julian Roberts-Grmela, Thomas Tracy – New York Daily News
More than a third of the city’s emergency medical technicians and paramedics are expected to leave this year as they continue to suffer from a crippling pay disparity that’s left some employees so destitute that they’re living in homeless shelters, union leaders said as they called on the City Council for some much-needed relief.
Speaking at a Council budget hearing for the FDNY on Friday, Oren Barzilay, the president of EMS Local 2507, said 1,500 medical first responders “are projected to quit the service in 2026.”…