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EMS History

EMS History
Major Emergency Response Vehicle (MERV) at the New York 1964-65 World's Fair Unisphere .

EMS History
Bellevue Hospital's Disaster Unit demonstrates its latest equipment and staff, circa 1965

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Ambulances on scene at a motor vehicle accident on the
Roosevelt Drive, Manhattan, circa 1969.
Still in use at that time were the pole and pad stretchers.

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The first Paramedic class poses outside of Jacobi Hospital, July 1974

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EMTs manned mopeds during the New York City 1980 Transit Strike.

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FDNY*EMS crews operating on scene at the Bruckner Interchange in the Bronx in 1998.

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1980 Coffin Demonstration