Yanaisa Pulido put the welfare of others before hers. Now, her family needs others to help after she was killed in a six-car crash in Fort Lauderdale while aiding people stranded on Interstate 95 over the weekend.
Those who knew her say the 23-year-old Hialeah paramedic died doing what she did best: helping others when they needed it most.
Leannie Pulido, one of her six siblings and a dispatcher at the same EMS company where her sister worked, said the paramedic was dedicated to helping everyone, on the job or not.
“She was always looking out for others before herself,” her 18-year-old sister said.
How did the crash unfold on I-95?
Around 4 a.m. Sunday, Pulido was behind the wheel of a black Kia Forte sedan going south on I-95 — heading home after a 12-hour shift — when she stopped in one of the center lanes and got out of her car to help two other drivers involved in a crash, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
However, as a 41-year-old Doral man driving a silver Cadillac ATS sedan began to slow down to avoid a collision with the back of Pulido’s car, a 19-year-old Pembroke Pines woman in a black Lexus IS300 crashed into the rear of his car.